Tag: SAF

Bangchak Group Reinforces its Readiness as SAF Production Leader Partnering with BAFS and BPT

October 21, 2024 | Meghan Sapp

In Thailand, senior leaders of Bangchak Corporation Public Company Limited, Bangkok Aviation Fuel Services Public Company Limited (BAFS), and BAFS Pipeline Transportation Limited (BPT), presided over the pilot initiative to deliver Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) into the pipeline system leading to Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang International Airports. This collaboration involves blending SAF with jet fuel […]

Grupo Bahia Blanca to build Argentina’s first SAF facility

October 20, 2024 | Juan Pedro Tomas

In Argentina, Biodiesel Argentina reported that Argentine company Grupo Bahía Energía will invest approximately $200 million in the first bioethanol plant in Buenos Aires and the first Sustainable Aviation Fuel plant in the country. The report noted that the project will be carried out through its company Biosanfe, which will install an industrial complex for […]

Terviva gets investment from Chevron Renewable Energy Group to scale renewable pongamia for biofuel production

October 20, 2024 | Juan Pedro Tomas

In California, Terviva announced its investment from Chevron Renewable Energy Group with the main aim of scaling renewable pongamia for biofuel production. Together, the two companies expect to scale Terviva’s pongamia-growing operations and drive greater availability of pongamia as a feedstock for renewable fuels production. The new arrangement signals the advancement of pongamia as a […]

St1 Refinery starts using Honeywell’s Ecofining technology to produce SAF

October 16, 2024 | Meghan Sapp

In Sweden, Honeywell announced that the St1 Refinery has started using Honeywell’s EcofiningTM technology to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The biorefinery in Gothenburg, Sweden will provide SAF to regional airlines, including Braathens Regional Airlines. The production of SAF with Ecofining technology also supports Honeywell’s alignment of its portfolio to three powerful megatrends, including the […]

Bangchak expands its UCO collection network to supply SAF production

October 16, 2024 | Meghan Sapp

In Thailand, the Bangkok Post reports Bangchak recently signed a memorandum of understanding with New Biodiesel to buy used cooking oil collected from the southern provinces for sustainable aviation fuel feedstock. Bankchak recently purchased 45% of New Biodiesel’s parent company, Thanachok Vegetable Oil (2012). It already has agreements with 17 other companies for sourcing UCO […]

Bahía Energía Group to invest $200M in Argentina’s first SAF plant

October 15, 2024 | Meghan Sapp

In Argentina, La Nacion newspaper reports Bahía Energía Group will invest approximately $200 million in the first bioethanol plant in Buenos Aires and the first Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) plant in the country. The project will be carried out through its company Biosanfe, which will install an industrial complex for the production of biofuels (ethanol, […]

Japanese group partners with Australia’s Queensland state on SAF initiative

October 13, 2024 | Juan Pedro Tomas

In Japan, The Asahi Shimbun reported that a consortium of a Japanese university and businesses will team up with a state government in Australia for a project to mass produce sustainable biofuel for airplanes. The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, which has expertise in cultivating pongamia oil trees, plans to start a demonstration experiment […]

Cepsa supplying SAF to the Canary Islands

October 7, 2024 | Meghan Sapp

In Spain, Cepsa is now supplying sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the Canary Islands. The energy company has made SAF permanently available at the North Tenerife and Gran Canaria airports, and in the coming weeks it will be expanding this availability to the archipelago’s other main airports. This type of biofuel achieves a reduction of […]

Thai coalition to create UCO supply chain for domestic SAF

October 2, 2024 | Meghan Sapp

In Thailand, Bangchak and BSGF Co., Ltd., together with New Biodiesel and Thanachok Vegetable Oil (2012) Co., Ltd. recently signed a memorandum of understanding to create a domestic sustainable aviation fuel supply chain with used cooking oil as feedstock. New Biodiesel, a leading expert in palm oil production and collection of used cooking oil in […]

Comstock licences NREL and MIT tech for cellulosic SAF production