In Washington, America’s top biofuel and farm advocates called on the White House to take immediate action to address reports that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may soon seek to destroy demand for billions of gallons of low-carbon biofuels under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The following joint statement was issued by the American Farm […]
In the UK, Quadrise said testing of a produced oil sample taken from the Petroteq Oil Sands Plant from the Greenfield Energy LLC’s Utah operations team was completed in Essex confirmed the ability to produce commercial MSAR and bioMSAR fuels from the sample of heavy sweet oil provided and a report of the testing results […]
In Finland, Neste says sustainable aviation is a high growth and very attractive market as regulations and voluntary demand scale up, and it expects the global SAF demand to exceed 12 million ton/a by 2030. Neste plans to support market growth with 1.5 million tons/a planned capacity already available by the end of 2023 and […]
In Denmark, Maersk Growth has made a leading venture investment in Prometheus Fuels, a Silicon Valley-based startup with a promising direct air capture-technology to enable cost efficient, carbon neutral eFuels for shipping. The minority investment in Prometheus Fuels will support A.P. Moller – Maersk’s work to execute on the strategy to decarbonize marine operations. Maersk […]
In India, Vinata Aeromobility Hybrid Powered Flying car and Air Cargo are both set for launching which will be held this October 5th in Excel London at the world’s largest Helitech Exhibition. Vinata Aeromobility has stated that the Hybrid Powered flying car is more sustainable and it uses biofuel. The Hybrid Powered Flying car has […]
In Illinois, Honeywell and Wood announced a comprehensive package of technologies to support the effort to produce carbon-neutral aviation fuel. When used together, the technologies, which are based on Honeywell’s UOP Ecofining process technology and Wood’s hydrogen plant technology, could reduce lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 100% using certain feedstocks when compared to traditional […]
In Washington, DTN reports that a fictious email is being sent around pretending to come from the Renewable Fuels Association alleging potential RVO numbers for 2020 through 2022 ahead of their possible publication on Friday, which the association calls a “spoof”. Those numbers, including a revision down of 2020 blending, was reported by news agencies […]
In Botswana, University of Botswana research indicates that Botswana has enough feedstock to yield more than 15 million liters of B20 biodiesel annually, thus slowly turning into reality Botswana’s dream to become a biodiesel producing country. The data collected so far suggests that Botswana had enough feedstock to support a biodiesel plant with a capacity […]
In Argentina, Ecos365 reports the country will appeal the ruling of the United States Court of International Trade that ratifies the imposition of tariffs imposed in 2018 on the import of biofuel produced in Argentina. On Wednesday, the United States Court of International Trade ruled against the demand of the Argentine government and an exporting […]
In Connecticut, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company has approved the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), often referred to as biofuel, for the S-92 helicopter as an alternative to petroleum-based fuels and the aircraft completed its first flight. This approval occurs as companies across the aviation industry are taking steps to meet environmental challenges, including […]
