Biofuels

Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition Partners with Maersk in Maritime Biofuel Pilot

Friday, 22 March 2019 REM A group of Dutch multinationals including FrieslandCampina, Heineken, Philips, DSM, Shell and Unilever, all members of the Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition (DSGC), will join forces with A.P. Moller - ...

First Inland Vessel Fueled by 100% Sustainable Biofuel

Wednesday, 20 March 2019 Dan McCue

Dutch company GoodFuels and partner Reinplus Fiwado Bunker have fuelled the For Ever, the first inland vessel from Combined Cargo Terminals (CCT) that runs fully on 100 percent sustainable biofuels.

W2C Rotterdam Project Welcomes Shell as Partner

Thursday, 07 March 2019 REM Shell is joining a consortium of companies including Air Liquide, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam in Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemicals facility ...

Eni and RenOils Partner to Boost Collection of Used Food Oil for Biofuel Production

Friday, 22 February 2019 REM Eni and RenOils established a consortium in 2016 with the aim of ensuring the correct management of the collection, transport, storage, treatment and reuse of vegetable oils and of exhausted animal fats. ...

IEA becomes Facilitator of Biofuture Platform

Friday, 08 February 2019 REM The International Energy Agency officially took over on February 1 as the Facilitator of the Biofuture Platform, a group of 20 countries seeking to accelerate development and scale up deployment of modern ...

The Netherlands

Nordsol Attracts Shell Ventures as New Investor

Wednesday, 06 February 2019 REM Netherlands-based Nordsol, the BioLNG production and technology company, has brought Shell Ventures on as strategic investor to support its mission to make BioLNG mainstream. Nordsol uses biogas from organic ...

Finland

The Share of Biofuels in Road Traffic to Increase to 30% in Finland

Wednesday, 06 February 2019 REM The Parliament of Finland has voted in favor of a law for gradually increasing the share of biofuels in road traffic to 30 percent by 2029. In addition, the Parliament has approved a law for the distribution ...

Gevo Working with Consortium to Advance Sustainable Aviation Fuel, Also Announces Development of Renewable Isoprene

Monday, 28 January 2019 Dan McCue Gevo, based in Englewood, Colorado,has signed on to a Memorandum of Understanding with a group of eight airlines and certain fuel producers to work cooperatively on expanding the use of Sustainable Aviation ...

Japan

Japanese Algae Farm Receives ASC-MSC Certification for Sustainable Production

Wednesday, 23 January 2019 Dan McCue

A Japanese algae farm, whose microalgae products can be used in the production of biofuels, has become the first in the world to attain certification to the new ASC-MSC Seaweed (Algae) Standard.

Clariant Partners with ExxonMobil and REG to Advance Biofuel Research

Wednesday, 23 January 2019 REM Swiss company, Clariant, has signed a joint research agreement with ExxonMobil and Renewable Energy Group to evaluate the potential use of cellulosic sugars from sources such as agricultural waste and ...