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HP Impact: Ethanol to hit refining profitability

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Surging ethanol blending will undermine wholesale gasoline prices in the Atlantic Basin, starting in 2012, according to ESAI’s newly updated two-year outlook. The outlook says that ethanol will a..

HP Associations: Growing the fuel pool

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Whether refiners like it or not, the drumbeat for renewable fuels grows daily. The building momentum for such fuels is boosted by government mandates and regulations. Unfortunately, the tidal wave for..

Neste Oil starts up new renewable diesel plant in Singapore

Neste Oil has started up the world's largest renewable diesel plant in Singapore. Production of NExBTL renewable diesel will be ramped up on a phased basis.

Neste Oil's NExBTL renewable diesel receives certification in Germany

Neste Oil has received an International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) certificate for the NExBTL renewable diesel produced at the company's Porvoo refinery in Finland.

NPRA says EPA E15 misfueling regs won’t help consumers

Gregory M. Scott, executive vice president and general counsel of NPRA, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, testified at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public hearing today that proposed EPA regulations designed to prevent misfueling with gasoline containing 15% ethanol (E15) will fail to protect consumers.

EU-wide study confirms hydrogen is a key to zero-emission road transport

Linde Group shares its perspective on a recently released road-transport study.

SG Biofuels and Bunge form strategic alliance

SG Biofuels has established a strategic partnership with Bunge North America to research and develop a model to process Jatropha seeds into a biofuel feedstock.

Dynamic Fuels opens biofuels plant in Louisiana

Operations are underway at the new Dynamic Fuels plant, which is successfully converting animal fats and greases into renewable fuels. Production began in early October and the volume being produced is 2,500 bpd and growing.

European group says biofuels worse than fossil fuels for environment

Plans to increase the use of biofuels in Europe over the next ten years will require up to 69,000 square kilometers of new land worldwide and make climate change worse, according to a recently released study from the Institute for European Environmental Policy.

Cobalt Technologies and US Navy to develop military jet fuel

Cobalt Technologies has an agreement with the US Navy to develop technology for the conversion of biobutanol into full performance jet and diesel fuels.