ECB Group signs 500M liter SAF and HVO offtake contract with Shell

In Brazil, ECB Group Paraguay and Shell Trading (US) Company have signed a multi-year contract that will provide more than 500 million liters of renewable diesel and renewable jet fuel per year to Shell. The contract is expected to run from 2024.

The renewable diesel HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil) and renewable jet fuel (Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene/SPK), also known as Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), will be produced at ECB’s to-be-built Omega Green biorefinery in Paraguay, with a total production capacity of 20,000 barrels per day of HVO, SPK/SAF and green naphtha.