Clean fuels

UK-based startup OXCCU, which has developed a new process to create sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) has been crowned the winner of the 2026 Startups 100 Sustainability Award.

Haffner Energy and IGNIS P2X have announced that they have begun their bio/e-SAF collaborative project AeroVerde, and their immediate task consists in identifying the project’s first site’s precise location in Spain.

Corteva Inc. and BP have announced the launch of Etlas, their new 50:50 joint venture that will produce oil from crops for use in the production of biofuels.

EcoCeres has achieved two major milestones in China – securing a place on the SAF Export ‘White List’ and earning the country’s airworthiness certificate for SAF production.

SAMSUNG E&A, a total solutions provider for the global energy industry, has announced that it has broken ground on its Wabash Low-Carbon Ammonia Plant in the US.

Neste and Cathay Group have agreed on the supply of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ for the group’s aviation operations across three major aviation regions.

UPM has announced the production and commercialisation of industrial sugars at its Leuna biorefinery in Germany for commercial, wood-based chemicals.

Sandpiper Chemicals, LLC has announced that it has selected Air Water Gas Solutions Inc. as its presumptive industrial gases supplier for its Texas City, Texas, US, blue methanol facility.

KBR has announced that it has been awarded a technology and engineering contract by IGNIS for a new green ammonia facility in A Coruña, Spain.

Electric Hydrogen has been selected by Synergen Green Energy for a 240 MW green ammonia and hydrogen project in the US.

KBR has announced that it has been awarded a contract for its PureMSM green methanol technology by Fikrat Al-Tadweer for a biomethanol plant in Saudi Arabia for transforming landfill-gas into clean fuels.

Clean Planet Technologies has secured US and Saudi patents for its pyrolysis-oil upgrading process, strengthening the UK’s plastics-to-SAF innovation push.

EcoCeres Inc. has announced that it has attained certification under the RSB ICAO CORSIA scheme for SAF, a globally recognised standard aligned with CORSIA.

Samsung E&A has received a contract for Front End Engineering Design (FEED) of a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production plant in the US, marking its full-scale entry into the global clean energy market.

VTTI and Connex have announced that the Greenstock PreTreatment Facility at VTTI’s terminal in Amsterdam has entered the FEED phase.