BP outlines 3-pronged biofuels strategy, says biobutanol plant will open at commercial scale in 2013

In the UK, BP outlined a three-pronged strategy for biofuels: “growing a material sugarcane ethanol business in Brazil, building a cellulosic biofuel business in the U.S. and developing advanced molecules like biobutanol,” according to BP spokeswoman Thea Sherer.

A report in Ethanol Producer confirmed that the Vericipia plant — a joint venture between BP and Verenium, will open in Florida in 2012, and is planning to develop a second site along the Gulf Coast. BP’s joint venture with DuPont in biobutanol, will open a demonstration-scale plant in the UK in 2010 and commercially produce biobutanol in 2013.

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