The environment

Delta Air Lines, in collaboration with Shell and Portland International Airport (PDX), has taken delivery of SAF into the PDX fuel system, marking the first commercial-scale SAF uplift at PDX, US.

US imports of biodiesel and renewable diesel significantly decreased in the 1H25 compared with the same period in previous years, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has reported.

ExxonMobil Corp. and GHGSat have announced a partnership to monitor and mitigate methane at scale across ExxonMobil’s onshore operations globally.

Shell has announced that they will not continue with the construction of a biofuels plant in Pernis, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Axens has started up a 100% SAF unit at site in Asia, which has the capacity to entirely convert 300 000 tpy of renewable feedstock into high value SAF.

Vioneo has awarded a major contract to ECI Group for a project that will deliver a low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plant to operate using an entirely fossil-free feedstock in Belgium.

Green Plains Inc. has announced that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement with POET to sell its Rives, Tennessee-based, US, ethanol plant, for US$190 million in cash.

DNV has invested significantly to upgrade its Spadeadam research and development (R&D) facility, UK, to support de-risking the energy transition.

Asahi Kasei, Mitsui Chemicals, and Mitsubishi Chemical have established an LLP to achieve carbon neutrality and production capacity optimisation for two ethylene manufacturing facilities in Western Japan.

Universal Fuel Technologies’ (Unifuel) ethanol-to-jet SAF has been accepted into the ASTM D4054 Clearinghouse, which supports the technical evaluation of new aviation fuels for qualification.

Transition Industries has awarded Techint E&C and Siemens Energy a FEED contract for a 210 MW Electrolyser Facility for the Pacifico Mexinol project.

Syzygy Plasmonics will use Honeywell UOP Fischer-Tropsch (FT) UnicrackingTM technology to make SAF from dairy waste and renewable energy at an electrified biogas-to-SAF facility, Uruguay.

thyssenkrupp Uhde has completed the pre front-end engineering design (FEED) phase for the Portland Renewable Fuels Project in collaboration with HAMR Energy, Australia.

Finnish technology company Liquid Sun has launched an eSAF production pilot with ABB, Finnair, Fortum, and Finavia.

Vietjet has partnered with Petrolimex to use sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), advancing the aviation industry's green transition.