In Malaysia, Sarawak Oil Palms began commissioning its biodiesel plant in Sarawak, running at about 50% of its installed capacity of 300 metric tons per day. The facility is expect to supply the region for the mandated B7 blend. It is one of the last regions to implement biodiesel blending due to the lack of […]
In Thailand, the government has boosted the price paid to farmers to cut down rubber trees following a 20% cut in global rubber prices and is encouraging them to instead plant oil palm trees to increase biodiesel production. The plan is to cut down 350,000 rubber trees per year, up from 250,000 trees originally, while […]
In Malaysia, the Borneo Post reports that University of Malaysia Sabah researchers were able to convert oil palm fibre empty fruit bunches into biofertiliser. The article identified the researchers as Dr. Md Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee, and Nur Shafawati Saili, his postgraduate student, as having used Trichoderma to turn the biomass into biofertiliser inside of 40 days, […]
In Malaysia, five companies have signed a joint venture cluster agreement to accumulate as much as 1.5 million tonnes of dry oil palm biomass that will be used to produce products such as biofuels, either as ethanol or pellets. An article in the Daily Express lists the companies involved as Bell Group, Golden Elate, Genting […]
In Malaysia, 10 oil palm mills have committed to supply oil palm biomass to their joint-venture company, Lahad Datu Biomass JV Cluster, in the easternmost state of Sabah. The mills include major plantations such as Teck Guan Group, Bell Group, Genting Bhd, Kelas Wira Sdn Bhd and Golden Elate Sdn Bhd. Now that supply is […]
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Spanish company Biocongo Global Trading plans to invest $201 million to develop 60,000 hectares of oil palm as biodiesel feedstock in addition to two processing plants. One plant will produce oil for cooking while the other will produce biodiesel.
In Ecuador, the national association of African oil palm producers in conjunction with the production ministry have teamed together to analyze the possibility of producing palm oil as a biodiesel feedstock. The country is the largest oil palm producers in the Americas with 160,000 metric tons of annual oil production from 231,000 planted hectares.
In Argentina, Reuters reports Malaysian palm oil futures rose for a fourth straight session on Thursday, boosted by expectations of lower palm production and shrinking domestic stockpiles. The benchmark palm oil contract for January delivery on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange was up 18 ringgit, or 0.4 percent, at 4,504 ringgit a metric tonne in […]
In Malaysia, Bloomberg reports that palm oil futures slid back from six month highs on Monday as crude oil prices retreated following an uneventful report from China that was widely thought to boost demand that then weighed on soybean oil prices in the US and China. Even though prices fell off for palm oil, their […]
In Indonesia, Reuters reports that when the country boosts its biodiesel blending mandate to 40% from the current 35%, available palm oil supplies will tighten. With blending expected to rise to 16 billion liters next year when the mandate increases, up to 1.7 million metric tons of palm oil annually will be diverted towards biodiesel […]
