Clean fuels

INEOS Olefins & Polymer Europe has signed a renewable power agreement with Skagerak Energitjenester to provide 100% green energy to its Rafnes and Bamble plants.

The HIF Matagorda e-fuels facility in Texas, US, is expected to produce approximately 200 million gal./yr of e-fuels to decarbonise over 400 000 cars on the road.

Neste and Viva Aerobus have signed a new purchase agreement for 1 million l of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™.

Iran is set to register the highest methanol capacity additions in the Middle East, contributing about 94% of the region’s capacity additions by 2027.

Delta will purchase up to 10 million gal. of neat SAF from Shell Aviation over a two-year period, for use at its hub at Los Angeles International Airport in the US.

Technip Energies and Casale have announced a new partnership to jointly license oxidative reforming-based technologies for the blue hydrogen market.

Neste welcomes the Italian government’s decision to introduce a mandate for increasing the use of unblended biofuels to further accelerate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the transport sector.

Petrobras has clarified that as part of its BioRefining programme it is conducting new project studies to expand the production of Diesel R – fuel produced by co-processing mineral diesel with vegetable oil.

Deutsche Bahn is significantly expanding its use of clean fuels by purchasing around 13 300 t of renewable diesel produced by Neste.

Cepsa and Bio-Oils, Apical’s biofuels entity in Huelva, have created a JV to promote the production of 2G biofuels through the construction of a plant in southern Europe.

Technip Energies has announced the award of a contract for the FEED phase of LanzaTech’s DRAGON SAF project, which is on track to be one of the first commercial SAF facilities in the UK.

Neste and Ryanair have expanded their collaboration to enable Ryanair to power its full schedule of flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol with a 40% blend of Neste MY SAF from 1 April 2023 onwards.

Axens has acquired stakes in the BioTJet project, the aim of which is to build and operate the largest European SAF production unit using the Fischer-Tropsch process.

Sulzer has signed an agreement with JTC Corp. to build and operate a new research centre for its separation technology solutions.

Neste, ITOCHU Corp. and Fuji Oil Co. have collaborated to supply SAF to the Japanese market as part of a demonstration project of the Civil Aviation Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT).