Clean fuels

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).

The partnership will aim to demonstrate the production of sustainable e-fuels for air transport from the not yet recovered carbon dioxide of a biofuel production unit.

HIF Global and Idemitsu Kosan have announced a strategic cooperation agreement to accelerate the production of carbon-neutral e-fuels.

According to GlobalData, Asia will be a key contributor to global methanol industry capacity additions with a share of 26.7% by 2027, as the region gains capacities from new-build projects between 2023 – 2027.

Agricultural byproducts will be turned into jet fuel through investment from Qantas, Airbus and the Queensland Government, at a biofuel production facility being developed by Jet Zero Australia and LanzaJet.

Enviro has been informed that fuel company Preem has performed successful production tests on the recovered pyrolysis oil that Enviro recently supplied.

Air Liquide has announced the construction of an industrial scale ammonia cracking pilot plant in the port of Antwerp, Belgium.

Uniper and Shell UK Ltd have awarded Shell Catalysts & Technologies a contract to deliver a process design package for the Humber H2ub® project.

Technip Energies has been selected by Texas Green Fuels (TGF) to commence pre-FEED for the TGF Galveston Bay clean fuels export project.

Chart Industries Inc. and ZEV Stations Co. have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) enabling the two companies to collaborate on novel deployment for US-based, multimodal hydrogen stations with Chart equipment.