In Texas, Fluor Corporation was awarded a reimbursable front-end engineering and detailed design, engineering and procurement services contract for Imperial as the company progresses plans to develop a world-class renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The new complex is expected to be the largest renewable diesel production facility in Canada […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports Datagro data shows sugarcane production is expected to jump next season to 590 million metric tons in 2023/24 that kicks off in April as the crop continues to recover from drought and deep freeze impacts. The figure compares to 542 million tons expected for the current season. Although ethanol production is […]
In Argentina, Reuters reports government established new criteria to set the values of bioethanol based on sugar cane and corn used in gasoline cuts for domestic consumption. The measure aims to seek a price adjustment in accordance with the strong inflationary escalation that the country is going through and that could exceed 100% this year. […]
In the UAE, TradeArabia News Service reports Lootah Biofuels has opened its biodiesel facility in in Dubai Industrial City. It will use used cooking oil as feedstock to produce biodiesel with a 100-ton per day expansion already in place. The biodiesel will be used to help achieve the government’s 5% biofuel blending target. In addition […]
In the UK, Bloomberg reports Brookfield has received interest in buying Greenergy for as much as $1.4 billion as interest increases in securing alternative energy assets although there is no guarantee that an offer will be made. Brookfield tried to sell Greenergy last year, contracting HSBC and Citigroup to scout for potential buyers, but the […]
In the UK, PETRONAS and Heriot-Watt University have entered into a research partnership to jointly develop cost-effective technologies to produce hydrogen from biomass waste, in line with both organisations’ aspiration for a carbon-neutral future and a circular economy. The £1M research project is a collaboration under PETRONAS Centre of Excellence in Subsurface Engineering and […]
In Brazil, ANP has decided that biodiesel producers will be able to file extracts from commercialization contracts signed with liquid fuel distributors until November 3, 2022, to meet the contracting targets for the November-December 2022 period, pursuant to ANP Resolution No. 857 of October 28, 2021. With the extension of the term, producers have 15 […]
In Illinois, Woodside Energy and LanzaTech NZ, Inc. have announced a strategic collaboration with the signing of a Strategic Framework Agreement. Under the Strategic Framework Agreement Woodside will, in collaboration with LanzaTech and subject to a positive final investment decision, design, construct, own, maintain and operate pilot facilities relating to LanzaTech’s technologies. The Strategic Framework […]
In Canada, Bombardier and Signature Aviation announced they have reached a multi-year agreement for the purchase of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) quantities, utilizing the Book and Claim system, covering all of Bombardier’s flight operations starting in January 2023. The agreement is the first of this scope for a business aviation original equipment manufacturer (OEM). The […]
It Italy, Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that NextChem, through itssubsidiary MyRechemical, has kicked off the engineering phase of Hydrogen Valley in Rome, which is based on NextChem’s waste-to-chemical technology and has received the EU Commission grant within IPCEI HY2USE initiative, as already communicated. NextChem has started, through MyRechemical, the engineering of waste conversion to Circular […]
