In Texas, Red Rock Biofuels LLC is working with GLC Advisors & Co. to source a development partner to finance the completion of its biofuels facility that will produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel. The facility will be one of the first SAF plants in North America to produce drop-in fuels and is […]
In Canada, Cresta Fund Management, a Dallas, Texas-based private equity fund, acquired a controlling interest in the Come By Chance refinery facility in Newfoundland and Labrador in late-2021 and has been working to build the senior leadership team and convert the facility to renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel service with initial nameplate production capacity […]
In Texas, Hyperfuels, has partnered with FuelWise to provide PurFuel, an ethanol-free reformulated gasoline (RFG) to replace E85 at two dispensers. The station’s 6,000-gallon underground tank was cleaned for the new service and is estimated to support over 12,000 gallons per month of ethanol-free in vented equipment used by small-medium sized businesses, the Port of […]
In Colombia, El Nuevo Siglo reports the National Federation of Biofuels of Colombia (Fedebiocombustibles) released the biodiesel consumption figures for 2021, which grew 24% compared to 2020. In addition, it was added that consumption was also 15% higher than in 2018, its best year so far. On that occasion, the demand was 552,000 metric tons. […]
In Peru, En Linea reports the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor ‘s Office has been carrying out the simultaneous search of 15 properties since this morning, as part of the investigations into alleged irregularities in the tender for the purchase of biodiesel between Petroperú and Heaven Petroleum Operators. The Megaoperativo Resplandor 2022, which is carried out in conjunction […]
In France, Global Bioenergies has been awarded a €500,000 subsidy to complete construction of the Pomacle production unit and start marketing its innovative ingredients to the cosmetics industry. Global Bioenergies announced last spring the decision to build a production unit on the Pomacle site, near Reims. The first phase of the work was launched in […]
In California, Pearson Fuels opened its 250th retail E85 flex fuel station. Pearson Fuels is the largest distributor of E85 flex fuel in the U.S., delivering more than 50 million gallons of E85 flex fuel through its retail station network in 2021. This volume of E85 represents nearly 200,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions […]
In Germany, BASF Venture Capital GmbH and Orbia Ventures are investing in the Israeli biotech startup FortePhest which is developing a new technology to combat herbicide-resistant weeds and invasive plants. Inspired and informed by natural plant processes, the company supports crop protection on a global scale by implementing this technology. BASF Venture Capital and Orbia […]
In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office announced up to $19 million in federal funding for the advancement of technologies that utilize waste carbon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce reliable feedstocks for biotechnologies, with this particular funding opportunity aiming to increase the capability of algal systems to capture carbon […]
In Canada, Covestro received the internationally recognized ISCC Plus mass balance certification for its Leverkusen and Dormagen sites. Together with the Krefeld-Uerdingen site, which was already certified a year ago, the company can now supply its customers with large product volumes from renewably attributed raw materials from all three Lower Rhine sites in Germany. These […]
