In Denmark, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark officially initiated a world first with the safe injection of carbon dioxide from Belgium into a depleted oil field in the Danish North Sea. Project Greensand, shows for the first time the feasibility of CO2 storage from being captured at an INEOS Oxide site in […]
In Norway, together with shipowner Spar Shipping AS, NORDEN recently bunkered approximately 1100 metirc tons of biofuel at GoodFuels in Rotterdam used on two voyages bound for Asia and Africa respectively. The bunkering of 1100 tons of biofuel is the first biofuel bunkering by NORDEN on chartered vessels, marking an important milestone in our commitment […]
In Washington state, Snohomish County is establishing a world-leading Research and Development (R&D) Center focused on Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) at Paine Field Airport. The project, which is a partnership with Washington State University (WSU), when combined with other WSU assets in Washington will create the world’s first SAF repository of this type for advancing […]
In Colorado, the Akron News Reporter newspaper reports Carbon America held a community open house last week to share its plans to establish carbon capture and storage for Yuma Ethanol. The project would sequester 175,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually at an underground facility located on state land about 10 miles by pipeline from the […]
In Washington, Energy Information Administration data shows ethanol production shows ethanol production snuck back over the 1 million barrel mark last week to 1.003 million barrels per day on average. With ethanol stocks falling and demand expected to increase coming into the summer driving season with hopes that year-round E15 will be in place due […]
In Brazil, Mongabay investigation into land-grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon has led to the suspension of the sustainability certificate of the country’s second top palm oil exporter, as shown in email correspondence seen by this reporter, in addition to key sources of the case. Agropalma, the only Brazilian company with the sustainability certificate issued by the […]
In Australia, Ampol Limited said it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Japanese company ENEOS to explore the production of advanced biofuels at the Lytton refinery in Brisbane, Australia. Ampol and ENEOS will jointly explore the feasibility of delivering an advanced biofuels manufacturing facility with the capacity to generate up to 500 million liters […]
In Norway, Kuehne+Nagel has been in a trusting partnership with Norwegian technology company ScaleAQ since 2014. Their shared ambition is to drive a sustainable future and has now resulted in Norway’s first fully traceable biofuel cargo. ScaleAQ is a global technology supplier to the aquaculture industry worldwide, contributing to this success. The company’s commitment to […]
In the Netherlands, Platts reports European T2 ethanol prices are experiencing strong and increasing backwardation in part due to the closed import arbitrage that has existed for much of 2023, with prompt April/May paper trade having doubled to Eur20/cu m from one day to the next last week. Backwardation is seen through May-June trades but […]
In Brazil, the General Superintendence of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (SG/Cade) recommended in an order signed last Friday the prosecution of Miriri Alimentos e Bioenergia and its CEO for the practice of inviting cartelization in the national market for the production and sale of ethanol. Miriri Alimentos e Bioenergia is one of the […]
