In Minnesota, GREATER MSP Partnership said that Flint Hills Resources in collaboration with Delta Air Lines is in the early stages of developing a facility to blend up to 30 million gallons of neat SAF at its Pine Bend refinery in Rosemount. This work is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2025. Shell will supply the neat SAF and bring its expertise in product quality, supply chains and logistics to the team. The Flint Hills refinery’s laboratory, and compliance and quality control systems, will be used to meet required specifications, and state and federal regulatory requirements, for the jet fuel it produces and blends with SAF. The blended fuel will be delivered via Flint Hills’ existing pipeline to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) – Delta’s second largest hub. Greater MSP Partnership also noted that a “Demand Consortium” that includes Bank of America, Deloitte, Delta, and Ecolab has been formed to purchase the first several million gallons of SAF each year, with purchases anticipated to start in the fourth quarter of 2025.
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