North America downstream news

NATSO, representing travel centres and truck stops, and SIGMA: America’s Leading Fuel Marketers, have urged the US Department of Energy (DOE) to adopt a market-oriented, technology-neutral approach to transportation decarbonisation.

Southwest Airlines Co. has announced an offtake agreement with USA BioEnergy, LLC for up to 680 million gal. of neat sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) has filed comments in opposition to New Mexico’s proposed regulations to adopt California’s Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) standards through 2032.

On 23 October 2023, the US District Court of Delaware initiated a process that will see the sale of three refineries owned by Citgo parent company, PDV Holdings, the US subsidiary of Venezuelan state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PdVSA).

Over the next five years, the EIA predicts North America’s LNG export capacity will expand.

Growth in Florida’s resident population is driving growth in transportation fuel consumption and is increasing waterborne transportation fuel shipments from US Gulf Coast refiners.

Executives from Seaside LNG, Polaris New Energy and their guests have gathered at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, US, to christen the recently constructed LNG bunker barge, Clean Everglades.

Ameresco has announced that it has achieved commercial operation at its landfill gas to renewable natural gas plant at Republic Services’ Benson Valley Landfill in Kentucky, US.

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that associated natural gas production increased 9% in 2022 due to higher crude oil production.

Low gasoline demand and the switch to winter-grade gasoline pushed the spread between gasoline blendstock and crude oil prices to multiyear lows in early October 2023.