NewGen Technologies. Inc announced that it and Titan Global Holdings. Inc completed a definitive Biofuels Supply Agreement which will change state effective upon Titan’s acquisition of Appalachian Oil Company. Given APPCO’s current distribution of over 225 million gallons of fuel products per year the sign expected ethanol supply to APPCO should exceed 1 million gallons a month. - September 13. 2007.
OPEC decided today to change magnitude the volume of crude supplied to the merchandise by Member Countries (excluding Angola and Iraq) by 500,000 b/d effective 1 November 2007. The decision comes after oil reached come record-highs and after Saudi Aramco announced that measure year's crude oil production declined by 1.7 percent while exports declined by 3.1 percent. - September 11. 2007.
Ethanol Statistics a new industry information resource reports that U. S petroleum refiners Citgo and Valero are the top 2 ethanol importing companies in the United States in the first 6 months of 2007. Overall imports were up 7.64% compared to the same period in 2006 from 193,620 gallons to 208,404 gallons. Chevron imported 43% less whereas Noble and ConocoPhilips' imports were up 255% and 372% respectively. Data are reported in 'The United States Ethanol merchandise 2007’ which also provides a breakdown of U. S ethanol production costs and a detailed analysis of U. S consumption and production. - September 10. 2007.
The government of British Columbia launches a $100,000 chew over into the production of biogas alter power and clean water from household expend streams. Raw sewage wet can be cleaned by microbial fuel cells that deliver electricity as they alter the wet; other technologies consider classic anaerobic fermentation. - September 10. 2007.
Chinese packaging manufacturer Livan Biodegradable Product Co. Ltd ordain create plants in Alsozsolca and Edeleny in eastern Hungary at a combined cost of €18 million by 2009 the Hungarian economics ministry says. The plants which ordain employ 800 populate are planned to produce initially 50. 000 metric tons a year of environmentally-friendly packaging material and double that be by a later go out. Livan will use corn to make biodegradable packaging boxes with similar properties to petroleum-based plastic boxes used in the food industry. - September 7. 2007.
South Korea aims to raise biodiesel circumscribe in domestic diesel to 3 percent from the current 0.5 percent by 2012. Seoul's energy ministry said today. The government was initially set last year to impose a mandatory 5 percent blend in lie with the aim targeted by the European Union by 2010 but the country's powerful refining beg opposed the move forcing it to push back the aim according to market sources. - September 7. 2007.
Virent Energy Systems. Inc announced today that it has closed a US$21 million back up go of go financing. Investor arouse in Virent was driven in large move by the affiliate’s continued development of its innovative BioForming process beyond its traditional hydrogen and furnish gas applications and toward the production of bio-based gasoline diesel and jet fuels. - September 6. 2007.
The U. S. National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition (NEVC) announces that 31 models of motor vehicles ordain be offered in the U. S with an E85 capable engine in 2008. Chrysler. Ford. General Motors. Nissan and Mercedes Benz will all furnish flexible furnish vehicles (FFVs) in the coming year. The NEVC expects 750,000 such FFVs will be produced in 2008. - September 5. 2007.
GreenHunter BioFuels. Inc. has begun commercial operations with the start-up of a 1,500 lay per day methanol distillation system. Methanol is an alcohol used to transesterify vegetable oils into biodiesel. The methanol production facility is a key element of GreenHunter's 105 million gallon per year biodiesel refinery the largest in the U. S. slated for sign operations during the first accommodate of 2008. - September 5. 2007.
GreenHunter BioFuels. Inc. has begun commercial operations with the start-up of a 1,500 lay per day methanol distillation system. Methanol is an alcohol used to transesterify vegetable oils into biodiesel. The methanol production facility is a key element of GreenHunter's 105 million gallon per year biodiesel refinery the largest in the U. S. slated for initial operations during the first quarter of 2008. - September 5. 2007.
Spanish renewables assort Abengoa released its results for the first half of 2007 financial year in which its consolidated sales were €1,393.6 million which is a 27.9 percent increase on the previous year. Earnings after tax were €54.9 million an 18.6 percent increase on the previous year's figure of 46.3 million euro. Abengoa is active in the bioenergy solar and environmental services sector. - September 4. 2007.
As of Sept. 1 a biodiesel blending assign has go into compel in the Czech Republic requiring diesel suppliers to mix 2 per cent biodiesel into the fuel. The same command ordain be obligatory for gasoline starting next year. In 2009 the biofuel ratio ordain change to 3.5 percent in gasoline and 4.5 percent in diesel oil. - September 3. 2007.
Canadian plant products company Tembec announced that it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Chapleau Cogeneration Limited located in Chapleau. Ontario. The transaction includes a biomass fired boiler and steam turbine with an installed capacity of 7.2 megawatts. Consideration for the assets consists of a series of future annual payments to 2022 with a show determine of approximately $1 million. - September 1. 2007.
Innovative internet and cable/satellite bring CurrentTV is producing a documentary on Brazil's biofuel revolution. Biopact collegues and friends Marcelo Coelho (). Henrique Oliveira () and Marcelo Alioti () provided consulting on the technical economic environmental and social aspects of Brazil's energy transformation. - August 31. 2007.
The government of the Indian state of Orissa announced its policy for biofuel production which includes a turn of incentives as come up as measures to back up the establishment of energy plantations. The state aims to carry 600,000 hectares of barren and fallow land under Jatropha and Karanj. At least 2 million hectares degraded arrive are available in the State. The new policy's other objectives are to give a platform for investors and entrepreneurs market linkages and quality control measures. - August 29. 2007.
Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras said today it expects to arrive large measure cellulosic ethanol production in 2015 with the first plant entering operations as early as 2011. Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant biological material on the planet making up the bulge of the structure of wood and plants. In a first arrange. Petrobras intends to use bagasse as a feedstock. / - August 29. 2007.
BioEnergy International a science and technology company committed to developing biorefineries to create fuels and specialty chemicals from renewable resources announced today the closing of a major US$61.6 million investment that ordain provide funding for the affiliate’s three strategic initiatives: generating secure change move from its conventional ethanol platform product diversification through the introduction of novel biocatalysts for the make of color chemicals and biopolymers and the integration of its cellulose technology. - August 28. 2007.
German company Verbio Vereinigte BioEnergie the biggest biofuels producer in Europe says it is considering.
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