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Update: Shell to take $600-MM hit from scrapped Rotterdam biofuels project

Shell had approved development of the 820,000-metric tpy biofuels plant in 2021, but paused construction last year and cancelled the project entirely in early September because it would not have been competitive.

Tagaddod secures $26.3 MM Series A to accelerate regional expansion, strengthen global biofuel supply chains

This major investment marks a key milestone in Tagaddod’s mission to become a global leader in the supply of renewable, traceable and sustainable feedstocks; including used cooking oil (UCO), acid oils and animal fats, to the rapidly growing biofuels and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industries.

Indonesia's state palm oil company to develop biodiesel complex in Papua in 2028

Agrinas has been assigned by President Prabowo Subianto to produce enough palm oil to meet rising demand for mandatory biodiesel blending, Fansuri said, with the goal of increasing the bio-content to eventually achieve 100% palm oil-based biodiesel, known as B100.

European oil refineries bet on green projects to secure long-term future

Pressured by environmental regulations and competition from modern plants, European refineries have been trying to ramp up production of cleaner products such as sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and biofuels to meet regulatory demand for such fuels.

ITOCHU to supply low-carbon methanol fuel for NYK Line at Port of Ulsan

The low-carbon methanol fuel recently supplied by ITOCHU is made from biomass-derived raw materials, and it is expected that the GHG emissions throughout the life cycle of the fuel will be less than that of conventional fuels.

Taiyo Oil and Mitsui Chemicals consider collaboration to expand supply of chemically recycled products

The study aims to have Taiyo Oil's Shikoku Operations handle the heavy fraction of pyrolysis oil from plastic waste, which is difficult for Mitsui Chemicals to process with its crackers. Chemically recycled naphtha, propylene and other products based on the mass balance approach will then be supplied to Mitsui Chemicals.

Technip Energies awarded two services contracts for first-of-a-kind, waste-to-methanol Ecoplanta project in Spain

The plant will be the first in Europe to transform, at scale, non-recyclable municipal solid waste and biomass into renewable and circular methanol.

LanzaJet advances UK ethanol-to-jet SAF project

LanzaJet, Inc. has been awarded more than $13 million (£10 million) from the UK Department for Transport’s Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) to accelerate development of Project Speedbird, a major sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) biorefinery in Teesside, United Kingdom

Eni and five other oil companies fined by Italian competition watchdog

The regulator said that fines totaling more than €936 MM ($1.1 B) had been levied against Eni, Esso, Italiana Petroli (IP), Q8, Saras and Tamoil.

Eni unveils new biorefinery project in Sannazzaro de’ Burgondi

Eni announced that it has received approval from the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security to convert selected units at the Sannazzaro de’ Burgondi (Pavia) refinery into a biorefinery.