In South Korea, The Korea Economic Daily reported that SK Energy Co., South Korea’s largest oil refiner, is set to start commercial operations of a production line for sustainable aviation fuel next month. The refiner said it plans to manufacture low-carbon products including SAF by simultaneously adding bio raw materials such as used cooking oil and animal fat as well as petroleum ingredients into the existing production line through a co-processing method, according to the report. SK Energy installed a five-kilometer pipeline to a bio-material storage tank to supply the renewable feedstock to petroleum product manufacturing processes for continuous SAF production, the report added. “We can immediately supply SAF to airlines when they need to comply with mandatory SAF blending policies in a preemptive move as we can keep producing SAF at the co-processing facility,” said Hong Kwang pyo, head of SK Energy’s strategy operation division.
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