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A Transformative Job: Overall’s La Mède Conversion

Plantations International News Last springtime, one of the globe's biggest oil companies, Total S.A., based in Paris with procedures in 130 countries, revealed strategies to change its oil refinery in La Mède, France, to make 500,000 bunches (roughly 170 MMgy) of hydrotreated veggie oil (HVO), also known as eco-friendly diesel. The La Mède oil refinery is in the South of France near Marseilles. The very first unit was constructed in 1935, baseding on Philippe Billant, project supervisor for Complete as well as the head of the La Mède transformation. The splitting system-- the main conversion unit at the refinery-- was mounted [...]

National Biodiesel Board members elect regulating board

Plantations International News National Biodiesel Board members selected their profession association leadership mid-November, electing four returning controling board members and also 4 brand-new members to serve in management duties. "Biodiesel encounters several obstacles however we have solid leadership from amongst all markets of the industry as well as we are in a position as a company to face those difficulties head on," claimed NBB Chief Executive Officer Joe Jobe. "This sector has gotten to almost 2 billion gallons for a third consecutive year as well as will continuously turn into the future under the instructions of the board." NBB participants voted [...]

Cowichan opens up biodiesel station with brand-new PoS technology

Plantations International News Cowichan Energy Alternatives, the Cowichan Bio-Diesel Co-op as well as the Cowichan Valley Regional Area are holding a special grand position event Nov. 19 to commemorate Vancouver Island's initial Green & & Go Biofuel Station. The station supplies a full variety of biodiesel blends for use in any sort of diesel automobile, truck, bus or equipment. The brand-new biodiesel blending pump and also Factor of Sale (PoS) innovation will certainly offer motorists with a very easy and safe way to gain access to tidy, sustainable biodiesel. The pump's PoS will offer each member with a purchase record that [...]

Joule, Red Rock Biofuels announce intent to merge

Plantations International News Joule, modern technology programmer of fluid energies from recycled CARBON DIOXIDE, and Red Stone Biofuels, a programmer of eco-friendly jet and also gasoline biorefineries, revealed their intent to merge. The deal is anticipated to nearby mid-December. Red Rock Biofuels makes use of Fischer-Tropsch technology to transform biomass deposits from forests and sawmills right into jet gas and also diesel items. The firm plans to start building of its very first refinery situated in Lakeview, Oregon, next year. The 15 MMgy task is sustained by a $ 70 million grant from the UNITED STATE departments of Farming, Navy and [...]

Neste, Boeing work toward biojet ASTM standard, market acceptance

Plantations International News Renewable diesel producer Neste announced in November that it is working with aircraft manufacturer Boeing to promote and accelerate commercialization of biojet fuel. The companies will work toward ASTM fuel standard approval allowing commercial airline use of high freezing point biojet fuel, along with parallel goals of gaining widespread market acceptance and progressing sustainability accreditation efforts. Neste anticipates that its biojet fuel could help the aviation industry achieve its greenhouse gas (GHG) saving targets, which are carbon-neutral growth from 2020 and a net reduction in carbon emissions of 50 percent by 2050 compared to 2005. “Airlines and airplane manufacturers [...]

Price space in between diesel, biodiesel broadens in Germany

Plantations International Information At the end of October, Germany's wholesale cost for biodiesel stood at around 75.60 euro cents per litre (USD $ 3.066 each gallon), omitting power tax obligation, hence going beyond the rate for agricultural diesel (i.e., off-road diesel) by virtually 10 euro cents per litre (USD $ 0.416 per gallon). Baseding on Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft (AMI), this was the greatest cost level because June 2014. The substantial surge of biodiesel costs was due to increasing feedstock prices, resilient need of rapeseed methyl esters (RME) before the cold season and high products costs following low water levels of significant rivers. [...]

REG Q3 numbers mirror challenging power, asset market problems

Plantations International Information By Renewable Power Group Inc.|November 03, 2015 Renewable resource Team Inc. revealed its economic outcomes Nov. 3 for the third quarter finished Sept. 30. Revenues for the quarter were $ 395 million on 120 million gallons of gas sold. As compared to the 3rd quarter of 2014, REG marketed 35.1 percent more gallons of fuel, while profits enhanced by 2.8 percent as a result of a 27.4 percent reduction in the typical cost each gallon marketed. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was adverse $ 10 million as compared to positive $ 11 million in the prior year duration, [...]

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