In Colombia, Ecodiesel Colombia has contracted with Brazil’s Dedini Industrias to construct a 30 Mgy palm oil based biodiesel plant in Barrancabaermeja. The plant, which will open in 2010, will produce for the domestic Colombian market and US and European exports. The project will be the fifth biodiesel plant built by Dedini, a longtime sugar and ethanol construction giant.
Colombia has been aggressively building out its biofuel capacity, but primarily on the ethanol side. The government announced in January that it will invest US$342 million in three new sugarcane ethanol plants in partnership with USAID and the International Organization for Migration (IMO).
Controlsud International will provide loans to develop the 150,000 acres of sugar cane production.
The Etanol Caribe Colombiano project will be located in the Bolivar, Cordoba and Sucre regions, and will be operational by the end of 2010. Total production capacity is 96 Mgy; the ethanol will be sold in Colombia as well as exported.
Colombia has an E10 mandate in place.
In Colombia, Amiworld said that it plans to increase biodiesel production by 300 percent, to 108,000 tonnes by 2009, and has signed an $8.6 million facility expansion agreement with FISS Project Devel...
In Colombia, local Afro-Colombian families are staging protests over forced land evictions to clear land for palm oil plantations, primarily in the northwestern section of the country near the Panaman...
In Colombia, the president of Comercializadora Internacional Acepalma said that the country will have six operation oil palm biodiesel plants in operation by the end of 2009; that four are already ope...
In Colombia, a new sugar beet ethanol plant has commenced production 90 miles north of the capital, Bogota. The plant will produce 29 Mgy of ethanol. Colombia has a 10 percent ethanol mandate in place...
In Colombia, Oilsource Holding Group has formed a joint venture with Abundant Biofuels to produce jatropha-based biodiesel in Colombia. The joint venture plans to plant 100,000 hectares with jatropha ...
In Colombia, the government announced that it will invest US$342 million in three new sugarcane ethanol plants in partnership with USAID and the International Organization for Migration (IMO).
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