In Spain, Mureloil and Astilleros Murueta signed a contract in Bilbao to build a new hybrid chemical tanker that will be deployed in Portuguese waters for bunkering operations. The new ship features a hybrid proposulsion system with batteries allowing for operations in electric mode for several hours. Moreover, she will be onshore power supply ready, […]
In Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni has commissioned PRO Industries, reputed as the biggest ethanol plant in East Africa. The President, accompanied by the First Lady Janet Museveni, said the factory, located in Luwero District in central Uganda, would boost value addition through agro-industrialisation, job creation, clean energy production, and reduce fuel imports. The $100 million […]
In Washington, Brownfield Ag News reports Energy Information Administration data shows ethanol production remained solid last week during the Christmas holidays at 1.12 million barrels per day, higher than both the week prior and during the same period last year. Along with higher production, stocks also rose to 22.944 million barrels, up 416,000 barrels from […]
In Kansas, the Carbon Herald reports that the Environmental Protection Agency has given a tentative green light to Purefield Ingredients that would allow it to to inject up to 1.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide 3,500 feet underground into a Class VI well over the next dozen years. If the permit is approved, it […]
In India, the Hindu newspaper reports that local communities in the Hanumangarh district in Rajasthan have been protesting for the past 15 months against the proposed ethanol plant under development by Dune Ethanol due to concerns about groundwater scarcity and pollution. The facility, deemed to be Asia’s largest ethanol plant, would use 6 million liters […]
In Egypt, the Egypt Independent newspaper reports that the Cabinet has rejected claims that the General Authority for the Suez Canal Economic Zone has conceded land in Sokhna to the Qatari company, Al-Mana Group, without financial or investment returns for the state in exchange for building the proposed $200 million sustainable aviation fuel project there. […]
In Brazil, Agro Estado reports that at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), the Ethanoil+ project seeks to transform the production of biodiesel and renewable diesel – known as green diesel – using compact equipment. The initiative, conducted by the Faculty of Chemical Engineering, aims to reduce costs, increase the sustainability of the process and […]
In California, Clean Fuels Alliance America welcomed a ruling by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to sunset the oxides of nitrogen (NOx) mitigation requirement for biodiesel blends up to B20 (20% biodiesel) in the Alternative Diesel Fuel (ADF) regulation. Clean Fuels first called for sunsetting the B20 restrictions in the ADF in 2022, after […]
In California, Aemetis Biogas LLC has received funds from the sale of $17 million of federal clean energy tax credits, including a Section 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit (PTC) and a Section 48 Investment Tax Credit (ITC). The transaction included approximately $12 million for a Section 48 ITC generated from the construction of a dairy […]
In Brazil, the Board of Directors of the ANP approved on Monday an 180-day extension of the temporary suspension of the marketing of biodiesel among similar distributors, previously planned for the period from May 1 to Dec. 31, 2025. The initial period of suspension was approved by the Agency’s collegiate in March 2025, given relevant […]
