In South Dakota, Jeff Lautt was named CEO of POET, the ethanol company announced today. Company founder Jeff Broin will step down after 25 years as the CEO but will continue managing and leading the company’s board as Executive Chairman. Jeff Lautt has been with POET since early 2005 and has served as its President […]
In California, North Star Biofuels, a joint venture of R. Power Fuels LLC of Emeryville and Agri Beef Co. of Boise, Idaho is proposing a 65,000 gallons per day biodiesel and biojet production facility in Watsonville that would process animal fats brought in by rail from Washington state. The company claims its biodiesel reduces GHG […]
In New Jersey, Kinder Morgan has announced the completion and startup of a 16-inch dedicated ethanol pipeline connection between its Linden, N.J., unit train facility and its largest New York Harbor terminal in Carteret, N.J. The Linden terminal has handled as much as 36,000 barrels of ethanol a day, with 550,000 barrels of storage through […]
In Washington, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service recently completed research looking into the feasibility of growing second-generation ethanol feedstocks on land near airports. The report found that doing so would fall within the FAA’s guidelines of what are permissible uses on airport lands and would be ideal because crops grown on those […]
In Thailand, domestic ethanol producers are looking for export markets to compensate for a lack of local demand that they say is a result of flip-flopping biofuel policies. Domestic demand is about 1.3 million liters per day but production has topped 3.6 million liters per day and could reach 9 million liters per day within […]
In Vietnam, the commissioning of PetroVietnam’s $80 million 100,000 metric ton sugarcane and cassava-based ethanol facility has been delayed because even though 90% of the construction is finished, the lender has yet to distribute the rest of the required funding. Recently the Ministry of Industry and Trade asked the regional authorities, the company and the […]
In Brazil, Boeing announced that it will establish Boeing Research & Technology-Brazil, a research and technology center in Sao Paulo that will work with the country’s leading researchers and scientists to develop aerospace technologies. Boeing Research & Technology-Brazil, which will open later this year, will serve as a hub for collaboration between Boeing and Brazilian […]
In California, researchers at UCLA have produced isobutanol from genetically modified bacteria, carbon dioxide and electricity produced from solar cells. Researchers say the new process could eventually be even more efficient than a plant’s own photosynthesis processes. The team is currently working on how to move up beyond laboratory scale now that the process has […]
In Washington, U.S. Department of Agriculture – along with the Department of Energy, and the Department of Navy – will co-host an Advanced Biofuels Industry Roundtable in Washington D.C. on May 18, 2012 as the next step in the partnership with the private sector to produce advanced biofuels to power military and commercial transportation. Agriculture […]
In California and New York, Solazyme and Bunge Global Innovation announced today that they and other Bunge subsidiaries have signed definitive agreements forming a Joint Venture to build, own and operate a commercial-scale renewable tailored oils production facility adjacent to Bunge’s Moema sugarcane mill in Brazil. The JV, which will operate under the name Solazyme […]
