In the UK, Greenergy’s Plymouth fuel terminal and biodiesel manufacturing facility at Immingham have both been awarded RoSPA Gold awards for occupational health and safety.The awards recognise Greenergy’s commitment to ensuring the highest standards of health and safety performance and management. Greenergy’s approach to safety is based on detailed and open reporting and structured follow-up. […]
In Thailand, Phuket’s Provincial Administration Organization is seeking $22.6 million to build a waste-to-biofuel facility that would use the entire island’s MSW as feedstock. Funding for the project will be sought from the national Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
In New York state, United Biofuels has applied to the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to convert an existing fuel-storage facility in Greenpoint into New York City’s first commercial scale biodiesel production facility, using used cooking oil as feedstock. The company purchased the facility from Metro Fuel Oil while it was in bankruptcy and not […]
In the UAE, Petrixo Oil & Gas is preparing to invest $800 million to set up a one million metric ton per year biofuel facility in Fujairah that will produce a wide variety of production from aviation biofuel to bio-LPG and green diesel. Technologies for the facility have already been sourced and preparation studies as […]
In California, Extreme Biodiesel announced its wholly owned subsidiary XTRM Cannabis Ventures has just completed assembly of its first Mobile Hemp To Biodiesel Production Unit. XTRM Cannabis Ventures will begin marketing and posting specs for the Mobile Hemp to Biodiesel unit shortly on its new website being constructed at http://xtrmcannabisventures.com. Housed in a traditional 25 foot trailer […]
In Italy, Beta Renewables and Novozymes marked the official opening in Northern Italy of the world’s largest advanced biofuels facility. Situated in fields outside the city of Crescentino, it is the first plant in the world to be designed and built to produce bioethanol from agricultural residues and energy crops at commercial scale using enzymatic […]
In Indonesia, Caritas Switzerland commissioned a 3,000 liter per day used cooking oil to biodiesel facility for the island of Bali from the UK’s Green Fuels. Currently the oil is disposed in rivers or cleaned with chemicals for cooking. About 1,000 liters per day is currently being collected by Caritas from 150 restaurants and hotels […]
