In Malaysia, Bernama news agency reports continued low crude oil prices remain a key pressure point for biodiesel blending mandates in both Malaysia and Indonesia who seek to increase energy security and support palm oil producers. Despite lower demand for fuel and biodiesel in particular, the founder and CEO of Sumwin Group said the pandemic […]
In California, Berkeley Lab researchers answered two questions regarding biofuels –what amount of bioproduct a plant needs to produce in order to make the process of extracting it worthwhile, and what amount needs to be made in order to reach the target ethanol selling price of $2.50 per gallon which was the average cost in […]
In India, the Hindu Line newspaper reports that despite government policy to blend 10% ethanol, with oil prices at $30 per barrel oil marketing companies are likely to forego additional ethanol blending. Blending reached 5% last season and was expected to reach similar levels this year while sugar mills invest in order to boost production […]
In our March Madness series, we’ve been covering emerging markets and technological pathways and market access – what about market pricing? Specifically, the price of the incumbemt that’s oil and gas. That was the subject of this slide presentation by Dr. Paul Bryan, former DOE Biomass Program manager and a before that VP for Biofuels at Chevron […]
By Douglas L. Faulkner, “The Cleantech Conservative” Special to The Digest Robert McNally, the author of the new, critically-acclaimed book, “Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices”, believes that global oil markets are entering an epic, structural shift to a protracted new era of wildly fluctuating crude prices. The reason is […]
In New York state, heating oil futures have reversed their weak trend during the last several days and are instead following crude oil prices higher in part due to a wildfire raging near Canadian oil sand areas. Those higher prices are in turn supporting biodiesel prices to a 14-month high in the Midwest and Gulf […]
With oil prices continued to roil markets, this deck on the oil price environment for 2016, presented by Raymond James senior vice-president Pavel Molchanov at the 2016 ABLC meeting, is both instructive and timely.
In Canada, low oil prices are hitting demand for ethanol, with the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association only expecting refiners to blend the mandated 5% rather than up to 7.5% as they have done in the past. It expects biodiesel to only be blended at the mandated 2% as well but is lobbying for the mandate […]
In Germany, low fuel prices aren’t deterring Lufthansa from continuing to develop aviation biofuels, some it describes as a long-term strategy and not one that is swayed but a tough year or two. Though the company doesn’t continually communicate new initiatives, it is still working to find biofuel solutions, and that won’t change when fuel […]
$80 oil. Seems like almost everyone in biofuels wants it, and is scared silly by today’s low-price environment. Are high prices good for renewable fuels? The hard data actually goes the other way. The Digest investigates. There’s a persistent theory going around in advanced biofuels circles that what the industry needs is a return to […]
