In Singapore, Anglo American has successfully trialed the use of sustainable biofuel to power a chartered capesize ship during a voyage from Singapore to South Africa. The biodiesel blend, produced by converting waste cooking oil from Singapore’s food and beverage industry, reduces carbon dioxide emissions compared to using 100% conventional marine fuel. The trial conducted […]
In Texas, USD Partners LP has entered into a Terminal Services Agreement with USD Clean Fuels LLC, a newly-formed subsidiary of US Development Group, LLC. The Terminal Services Agreement provides for the inbound shipment of renewable diesel on rail and the outbound shipment of the product on tank trucks to local consumers. The agreement has […]
In Denmark, A.P. Moller – Maersk announced the signing of a fully carbon-neutral transport agreement on ocean services with BESTSELLER. The open-ended agreement on lifestyle logistics covers all of BESTSELLERs global transportation requirements and includes inland logistics and CFS handling (warehousing). BESTSELLER has an ambitious climate strategy with clear reduction targets in line with the […]
In Brazil, Renewables Now reports that the most recent biodiesel auction held by the Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) contracted about 1.1 billion liters of biodiesel at an average price of $1.1 per liter for a total of $1.2 billion. The fuel contracted over four days will be used to supply the domestic blending […]
In the Netherlands, Ship & Bunker reports that Vertoro has won a EUR2 million grant from the ReactEU program to build a 50,000 metric ton cellulosic ethanol facility and 125,000 ton lignin-based Goldilocks crude oil facility in Rotterdam. The project aims to use industrial wood residues such as sawdust as feedstock. The fuel it will […]
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced $8 million in federal funding for four projects to develop and test technologies that capture and utilize carbon dioxide (CO2) from power systems or other industrial sources to create valuable products and services, biomass and bi-products. Using algae, the […]
In Washington, Clean Fuels Development Coalition (CFDC) called a recent letter from automakers in support of high octane low carbon fuels further validation that ethanol has a key role to play in protecting public health and increasing the efficiency of current and future vehicles. In a letter to former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle who […]
In Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards and PBF Chalmette Refinery Manager Steven Krynski announced the company is studying the possible conversion of an idled refinery unit into a renewable diesel production complex. The refinery’s parent company, PBF Energy, would make a $550 million capital investment to retrofit a hydrocracker unit – out of operation since […]
In Canada, the idled Come By Chance refinery owned by North Atlantic Refining Limited Partnership may be sold to Cresta Fund Management and converted into a renewable diesel facility. The facility was idled last spring in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic and since then the provincial government has floated NARL millions of dollars to […]
In the UK, ScottishPower Renewables has launched an innovative pilot project to reduce its carbon emissions by using waste vegetable oil to help power crew transfer vessels working on its flagship East Anglia ONE offshore windfarm. Supporting the company’s commitment to Net Zero, the renewable vessel fuel, HVO30 – made from 30% hydrogenated vegetable oil […]
