In the UK, Stanlow Terminals Limited (STL) announced it will make investments over the next three years to develop the UK’s largest biofuels storage hub located in the North West of England. The major investment is a key pillar in Stanlow Terminals’ strategic objective to become the UK’s largest bulk liquid storage and energy infrastructure […]
In Wyoming, Applied Research Associates, Inc. announced the licensing of its patented Hydrothermal Cleanup feedstock pretreatment technology to Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company for the development of a 7,500 BPD renewable feedstock pretreatment unit at Sinclair’s renewable diesel refinery in Sinclair, Wyoming. Sinclair, a leader in renewable diesel production since 2018, will use its HCU Pretreat […]
In Canada, in late November 2021, global shipowner, The CSL Group successfully completed the world’s longest-running trials of B100 biodiesel on marine engines, accumulating nearly 30,000 running hours. Conducted on half of CSL’s Canadian fleet, the tests resulted in a 23% total fleet life cycle reduction of CO2 as compared to marine gas oil (MGO). […]
In Russia, Volga-Dnepr Group, Airbus, Gazprom Neft, Aeroflot Airlines, National Research Center Zhukovsky Institute, Federal State Unitary Enterprise State Research Institute of Civil Aviation, and S7 Group signed Declaration with the aim to set Eurasian SAF alliance. The main task of the newly set alliance will be the development of a favorable ecosystem to ramp […]
In Belgium, Reuters reports that EU antitrust regulators fined Spain’s Abengoa 20 million euros ($22.5 million) on Friday for rigging ethanol benchmarks as part of a crackdown on such practices while investigations into two other companies continue. The European Commission has levied billion-euro fines in recent years, with regulators on both sides of the Atlantic […]
In Finland, Neste Corporation’s President and CEO Peter Vanacker has given notice of his resignation from the company. He will leave his position at Neste at the latest in June 2022. The search for Vanacker’s successor starts immediately. “I warmly thank Peter for his great work in accelerating Neste’s transformation into a global leader in […]
In the United Kingdom, SGN, Macquarie’s Green Investment Group and Esso Petroleum Company, Limited (an ExxonMobil affiliate) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the use of hydrogen and carbon capture to help reduce emissions in the Southampton industrial cluster. Southampton has one of the largest industrial sectors in the United Kingdom, and is both […]
In Minnesota, Calyxt, Inc., a plant-based synthetic biotechnology company, completed a key milestone in its lab-scale BioFactory manufacturing system with results through the Company’s metabolomics analyses indicating over 15,000 chemical signatures, including both known and as-yet-uncharacterized molecules and building block precursors, chemical compounds involved in chemical reactions that produce other compounds. These chemical signatures form […]
In Washington, D.C., U.S. ethanol exports in October jumped 38% to 104.74 million gallons (mg), bolstered by the largest volume of undenatured fuel ethanol exports since March. Canada remained the top destination for U.S. ethanol exports for the seventh consecutive month with imports of 37.3 mg, up 3%. This marks the largest monthly shipments to […]
In Denmark, Novozymes A/S completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Synergia Life Sciences Pte. Ltd. as initially announced on November 30, 2021, following the fulfillment of all closing conditions. As a result of the acquisition, Novozymes is now the controlling shareholder in Synergia Life Sciences. Synergia Life Sciences will be integrated into Novozymes’ […]
