Carbon, Industry, Oil and Waste

Fulcrum BioEnergy successfully produces first low-carbon synthetic crude oil from landfill waste at its Sierra BioFuels Plant

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Fulcrum BioEnergy, a clean energy company pioneering the creation of renewable, drop-in transportation fuels from landfill waste, successfully produced a low-carbon synthetic crude oil using landfill waste as a feedstock at its Sierra BioFuels Plant, the world’s first commercial-scale landfill waste-to-fuels plant.

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Sierra Waste Carbon Oil

Greenergy opts for Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology to produce low-carbon fuels from waste tires

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Greenergy will invest in Front End Engineering Design (FEED) of a project to produce low-carbon transportation fuels from waste tires. In the first phase, the planned facility will process up to 300 tons of shredded tires each day to produce low-carbon, low-sulfur drop-in fuels that can be blended into diesel and gasoline.

Waste

Waste Carbon Fuel Renewable

ETH Zurich catalyst can convert polypropylene directly into motor oil with high selectivity

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, have developed a carbon-supported platinum nanoparticle catalyst that can achieve complete hydrocracking of polypropylene into liquid hydrocarbons (C 5 –C 45 ). With tuning, the catalyst can achieve a selectivity of 80% toward motor oil (C 21 –C 45 ).

Oil

Oil Motor Motors Motoring

Goodyear announces first tire to use carbon black produced via methane pyrolysis; Monolith’s carbon black

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MAY 11, 2023

The specialized tread compound that provides enhanced all-season traction will include Monolith carbon black produced by methane pyrolysis. This tire, which will be manufactured with this specific carbon black, is the first tire for sale in the industry to have this type of carbon black produced by Monolith.

Carbon

Carbon Nebraska Hydrogen Renewable

Sparc Technologies, QUT partner to develop a hard carbon anode material from bio-waste for Na-ion batteries

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The partnership will begin with a project in the battery anode space with the development of a novel process for the production of hard carbon from bio-waste. Using readily available, sustainable bio-waste material will provide Sparc with a strong environmental value proposition when compared with conventional sources of hard carbon.

Waste

Waste Sodium Carbon Lithium Ion

China researchers hydrotreat waste engine oil and scrap tire oil blend to produce diesel- and jet-range fuel

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APRIL 27, 2019

Researchers at Henan Polytechnic University in China have hydrotreated the oil derived from hydrothermal liquefaction of scrap tires (STO) with waste engine oil (WEO) using five different activated carbon-supported noble metal catalysts—Pd/C, Pt/C, Ru/C, Ir/C, and Rh/C—for the production of liquid fuels.

Oil

Oil Waste Diesel Engine

Fraunhofer team develops process to recycle carbon black from car tires

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JULY 2, 2021

Waste tires have been used mainly for recovering energy sources; only small proportions of the carbon black contained in these tires are recycled, since mineral ash accounts for around 20% of its content. Around three kilograms of carbon black—also known as industrial soot—are found in a standard car tire.

Carbon

Carbon Cars Sodium Industrial

Aemetis signs $3B, 10-year supply agreement for 450M gallons of renewable diesel with industry-leading travel stop company

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DECEMBER 18, 2021

Aemetis, a renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products ( earlier post ), has signed a 10-year, 450-million-gallon renewable diesel supply agreement with an industry-leading travel stop company, which is expected to generate more than $3 billion in revenue. The industrial site has 710,000 s.f.

Renewable

Renewable Diesel Supplies Industrial

S&P Global: increasing trade of low-carbon biofuel feedstocks heightens supply constraint concerns

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JUNE 8, 2023

Animal fats and used cooking oil are increasingly joining the likes of lithium, cobalt and copper as energy transitional materials where supply constraints are of growing concern, according to a new analysis of trade flows by S&P Global Commodity Insights Agribusiness Consulting group. The chase is on, and it is here to stay.

Carbon

Carbon Supplies Global North America

BASF investing €16M into tire pyrolysis oil company Pyrum as part of ChemCycling project

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

BASF SE is investing €16 million into Pyrum Innovations AG, a technology company specialized in the pyrolysis of waste tires, headquartered in Dillingen/Saar, Germany. BASF will uptake most of the pyrolysis oil and process it into new chemical products by using a mass balance approach as part of its ChemCycling project.

Oil

Oil Parts Companies Waste

Goodyear develops 70% sustainable-material tire; NPT on delivery robots

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JANUARY 6, 2022

The 70% sustainable-material tire includes 13 featured ingredients across nine different tire components, including: Carbon black is included in tires for compound reinforcement and to help increase their life and has traditionally been made by burning various types of petroleum products.

Waste

Waste Oil Maintenance Carbon

Motherson Group collaborating with UBQ to bring carbon-negative thermoplastics into auto parts

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The companies are joining efforts to implement the carbon-negative UBQ thermoplastic ( earlier post ) into auto parts manufactured by Motherson Group for the automotive industry. Adding as little as 10% UBQ GHG to a part can immediately transform it into a carbon-neutral product. UBQ Industrial Grade.

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Parts Carbon Auto Polymer

Asahi Kasei to produce S-SBR for eco-friendly tires using butadiene derived from plastic waste and biomass

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NOVEMBER 25, 2021

regarding the supply of butadiene derived from plastic waste and biomass. To accelerate efforts for decarbonization to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the automotive industry is transitioning to electric vehicles while the tire industry is further improving the fuel-efficiency and wear resistance of tires.

Waste

Waste Singapore Emissions International

Indian Oil signs MOU with LanzaJet on sustainable aviation fuel production in India

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Indian Oil Corporation, India’s leading energy major, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with LanzaJet to explore the development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production in India. As a rapidly developing country, India’s energy transition will play a pivotal role in global energy markets.

India

India Oil Fuel Production

SLB introduces low-carbon alternative for well construction cement that eliminates up to 85% of embodied CO2

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MARCH 7, 2023

Decarbonizing the well construction process while ensuring safety and performance standards is critical to our industry’s pathway to net zero. The cement-free EcoShield system is a breakthrough that delivers industry-standard zonal isolation capabilities while significantly minimizing impact from upstream oil and gas production.

Portland

Portland CO2 Carbon North America

bp acquires 30% stake in Green Biofuels, UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil fuels

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

bp has acquired a 30% stake in Green Biofuels Ltd (GBF), the UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO). GBF’s products are made from renewable feedstocks such as vegetable oils, animal oils and fat. It is fully compatible with gas oil and significantly cleaner than EN590 (automotive diesel fuel).

Oil

Oil Green Hydrogen Fuel

Building materials recycler switches fleet to Neste renewable diesel

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Since forming in 2013, Argent Materials, a San Francisco Bay Area recycler of concrete and asphalt, and supplier of aggregate such as crushed rock, entry, cutback, sand, backfill and base rock for construction projects, has diverted more than a billion pounds of waste from local landfills.

Renewable

Renewable Fleet Diesel Building

Cemvita demonstrates “gold hydrogen” production in situ, sets up subsidiary

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Gold Hydrogen is a novel source of carbon neutral hydrogen produced from depleted oil reservoirs that are ready for plug and abandonment, extending the life of wells that would otherwise be a significant burden. Cemvita Factory’s mission is to reimagine heavy industries such as oil & gas and mining for the net-zero economy.

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Hydrogen Production Oil Renewable

Oleophobic hydrophobic magnetic sponge selectively soaks up oil, sparing water and wildlife

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MAY 29, 2020

A Northwestern Engineering-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soaks up oil in water. With an ability to absorb more than 30 times its weight in oil, the sponge could be used to clean up oil spills inexpensively and efficiently without harming marine life. —Vikas Nandwana.

Water

Water Oil Mariner Pollution

T&E study: Europe’s growing use of animal fats in fuels is becoming increasingly unsustainable; 8,800 dead pigs for Paris-NY flight

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JUNE 1, 2023

European lawmakers have been promoting the by-product of industrial meat farming as a way of reducing the carbon impact of transport fuels.They are now setting their sights on planes and to a lesser extent ships. Like all waste biofuels, the availability of animal fats is limited. However, there is not enough fat to go around.

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Fuel Oil Waste Transportation

Neste exploring ways to use waste plastic as a raw material for fuels and plastics

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JULY 18, 2018

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel, is now exploring ways to introduce liquefied waste plastic as a future raw material for fossil refining. The aim of the development project is to proceed to industrial scale trial during 2019. —Matti Lehmus, Executive Vice President of Neste’s Oil Products business area.

Waste

Waste Fuel Oil 2018

LG Chem, Dansuk JV to build Korea’s first next-generation hydro-treated vegetable oil plant

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

LG Chem and Korean biodiesel producer and exporter Dansuk Industrial will form a joint venture to build Korea’s first next-generation hydro-treated vegetable oil (HVO) plant. HVO is a next-generation bio-oil produced through hydro-treatment of vegetable raw materials such as waste cooking oil and palm by-products.

Oil

Oil Building Waste International

BTG and GoodFuels exploring options for joint investment to convert pyrolysis oil to low-carbon fuel for ships

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Biomass technology group BTG plans to set up a new high-tech technology company that can convert crude pyrolysis oil into diesel fuel suitable for the shipping sector. It will be the first refinery in the world for an advanced marine biofuel based on pyrolysis oil. In 2019, Empyro was acquired by the waste processing company Twence.

Oil

Oil Convert Mariner Fuel

REMONDIS and Neste partner to develop chemical recycling of plastic waste; targeting >200 kilotons/year

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, renewable jet fuel, and an expert in delivering drop-in renewable chemical solutions, and REMONDIS, one of the world’s largest privately owned recycling, service and water companies, have signed an agreement to collaborate in the development of chemical recycling of plastic waste.

Waste

Waste Climate Protection Renewable Polymer

Shell to build one of Europe’s biggest biofuels facilities for SAF and renewable diesel; 820,000 tonnes/year

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Once built, the facility will be among the largest in Europe to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel made from waste. Hydrogen and high-pressure steam are then used in the production process to convert oils into fuels (hydroprocessing), helping to reduce the fuel’s carbon intensity.

Renewable

Renewable Diesel Building Waste

Goodyear unveils 90% sustainable-material demonstration tire, approved for road use

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JANUARY 6, 2023

Lower rolling resistance means this demonstration tire has the potential to offer better fuel savings and carbon footprint reduction. These carbon black technologies target reduced carbon emissions, circularity and the use of bio-based carbons, while still delivering on performance.

Oil

Oil Carbon Polymer Renewable

Total begins producing sustainable aviation fuel in France

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APRIL 13, 2021

The biojet fuel, made from used cooking oil, will be delivered to French airports starting in April 2021. Total started up production at the La Mède biorefinery—converted from a former oil refinery—in 2019. Total will not use vegetable oils as feedstock. An 8-megawatt solar farm that can supply 13,000 people.

France

France Fuel Oil Waste

British Airways, Phillips 66 sign sustainable aviation fuel supply agreement

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DECEMBER 5, 2021

SAF can reduce lifecycle carbon emissions by over 80% compared to the traditional jet fuel it replaces. It will be produced from sustainable waste feedstock at the Humber Refinery, which will deliver its SAF supply to British Airways via existing pipeline infrastructure that feeds directly into UK airports. —Darren Cunningham.

Supplies

Supplies Fuel Waste Carbon

Tüpra? and Honeywell sign licensing agreement for the use of Honeywell UOP Ecofining technology; renewable diesel and SAF

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JULY 10, 2022

will license Honeywell UOP Ecofining technology to produce biofuels from feedstocks such as used cooking oil and waste animal fat at their refinery in Izmir, Türkiye. The new Ecofining plant is being designed to convert approximately 8,300 barrels per day of waste feeds/feedstocks to SAF, renewable diesel, and other products.

Renewable

Renewable Diesel Oil Waste

PNNL biocrude-to-diesel demo passes 2,000-hour catalyst stability milestone

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MARCH 26, 2021

The biocrude oil came from many different sources, including wastewater sludge from Detroit, and food waste collected from prison and an army base. The research showed that essentially any biocrude, regardless of wet-waste sources, could be used in the process and the catalyst remained robust during the entire run.

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Diesel Waste Convert Washington

Bridgestone partners with LanzaTech on end-of-life tire recycling technologies

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APRIL 14, 2022

Bridgestone Americas is partnering with LanzaTech to address end-of-life tire waste. According to the Tire Industry Project operating under the umbrella of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), more than one billion tires globally reach the end of their useful service life each year.

Waste

Waste Convert Carbon Renewable

Lithium Americas begins construction at Thacker Pass

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MARCH 3, 2023

The Federal Court declined to vacate the ROD and ordered the BLM to consider one issue under the mining law relating to the area designated for waste storage and tailings and did not impose any restrictions expected to impact the construction timeline. Major construction contracts awarded include: Lithium Carbonate and Purification.

America

America Nevada Philadelphia Water

Aemetis finalizes $7B of supply contracts for 100% of Riverbank Plant Production of SAF and RD for up to 10 years

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

a renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products, announced that $7 billion of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD) supply agreements have been signed with 10 airlines for a total of 916 million gallons of blended SAF. Aemetis, Inc.,

Supplies

Supplies San Francisco Los Angeles Production

St1 Etanolix food-waste-to-ethanol plant integrated into oil refinery in Gothenburg

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JUNE 8, 2015

The plant, built for North European Bio Tech Oy (NEB), recycles feedstocks such as food industry biowaste and process residue from local bakeries and bread from shops that is past its sell-by date into ethanol for transport fuel. St1 is a leader in waste-based ethanol production and production technologies.

Waste

Waste Oil Finland Sweden

Jumbo and Goodfuels partner to test drop-in Bio-Fuel Oil on offshore decommissioning project

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Leading global heavy lift shipping and offshore transportation and installation contractor Jumbo, and commercial, sustainable marine biofuel company GoodFuels, are partnering to test Goodfuels’ marine Bio-Fuel Oil on an offshore decommissioning project.

Oil

Oil Mariner Fuel Netherlands

Neste Oil building pilot plant to produce waste-based microbial oil for NExBTL renewable diesel fuel; commercial production possible by 2015

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

Neste Oil will build a pilot plant to produce waste-based microbial oil at its Porvoo refinery. It will be the first pilot plant in Europe designed to produce microbial oil for use in manufacturing renewable fuel from waste-based raw materials. Earlier post.) million).

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Oil Waste Renewable 2015

HEET to conduct first Boeing-COMAC Technology Center aviation biofuel research project focused on waste cooking oil

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

HEET, a company with experience developing alternative energy technologies, will focus on ways to convert discarded cooking oil into a component of sustainable aviation biofuel at the Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Center. COMAC was held on May 11th, 2008. COMAC is headquartered in Shanghai.

Waste

Waste Oil China Convert

In a US first, the oil and gas sector will pay fines for excess methane emissions

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Photo by Juan Mt on Pexels.com The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will fine oil and gas companies for emitting excess methane – the first federal government tax ever on greenhouse gas emissions. That’s because methane is a climate “super pollutant” that’s more potent than carbon dioxide. EPA administrator Michael S.

Oil

Oil Gas Emissions Waste

Neste and DSM announce strategic partnership to create high performance polymers made from sustainable feedstock

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NOVEMBER 28, 2020

This enables DSM and its customers to reduce the carbon footprint of their own products while supporting the industry to transition to a circular economy. These polymers are used, for example, in the automotive, electronics and packaging industries. —Shruti Singhal, President DSM Engineering Materials.

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Polymer Waste Renewable Oil

Neste Oil Looking to Waste-based Microbial Oil As Feedstock for NExBTL Renewable Diesel

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Neste Oil has applied for patents to cover technology developed to produce microbial oil from waste and residues with the help of various yeasts and molds for use as a feedstock for its NExBTL renewable diesel. Microbial oil produced in this way has already been successfully refined into NExBTL renewable diesel.

Oil

Oil Waste Renewable Diesel

Canada backs demonstration-scale algal biorefinery project in the oil sands; Algal Carbon Conversion

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MAY 19, 2013

The Government of Canada is supporting a three-year project that will result in the construction of a $19-million, demonstration-scale facility in Alberta that will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products such as biofuels. Click to enlarge.

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Oil-Sands Canada Oil Conversion

Aemetis selects Worley to provide engineering for ‘Carbon Zero 1’ renewable jet and diesel production plant

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JUNE 21, 2021

Aemetis awarded an engineering services contract to Worley for the Aemetis ‘Carbon Zero’ renewable jet and diesel plant in Riverbank, California. The Aemetis Carbon Zero renewable jet and diesel project is designed to hydrotreat renewable oils with hydrogen from orchard and forest wood waste. Earlier post.)

Renewable

Renewable Carbon Diesel Engine

Raven SR to supply sustainable aviation fuel to ANA and JAL

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JANUARY 18, 2023

By converting various types of local waste, such as green waste, municipal solid waste, organic waste, and methane from municipal solid waste, into clean fuels, Raven SR offers a sustainable solution for the reliable and long-term production of SAF.

Supplies

Supplies Fuel Waste Hydrogen

Aemetis selects Worley to provide engineering for renewable jet and diesel production plant; Axens technology

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JUNE 17, 2021

has awarded an engineering services contract to Worley for the Aemetis “Carbon Zero” renewable jet and diesel plant in Riverbank, California. The Aemetis Carbon Zero renewable jet and diesel project is designed to hydrotreat renewable oils with hydrogen from orchard and forest wood waste. Aemetis, Inc.

Renewable

Renewable Diesel Engine Production

Fulcrum BioEnergy successfully produces first low-carbon synthetic crude oil from landfill waste at its Sierra BioFuels Plant

Greenergy opts for Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology to produce low-carbon fuels from waste tires

ETH Zurich catalyst can convert polypropylene directly into motor oil with high selectivity

Goodyear announces first tire to use carbon black produced via methane pyrolysis; Monolith’s carbon black

Sparc Technologies, QUT partner to develop a hard carbon anode material from bio-waste for Na-ion batteries

China researchers hydrotreat waste engine oil and scrap tire oil blend to produce diesel- and jet-range fuel

Fraunhofer team develops process to recycle carbon black from car tires

Aemetis signs $3B, 10-year supply agreement for 450M gallons of renewable diesel with industry-leading travel stop company

S&P Global: increasing trade of low-carbon biofuel feedstocks heightens supply constraint concerns

BASF investing €16M into tire pyrolysis oil company Pyrum as part of ChemCycling project

Goodyear develops 70% sustainable-material tire; NPT on delivery robots

Motherson Group collaborating with UBQ to bring carbon-negative thermoplastics into auto parts

Asahi Kasei to produce S-SBR for eco-friendly tires using butadiene derived from plastic waste and biomass

Indian Oil signs MOU with LanzaJet on sustainable aviation fuel production in India

SLB introduces low-carbon alternative for well construction cement that eliminates up to 85% of embodied CO2

bp acquires 30% stake in Green Biofuels, UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil fuels

Building materials recycler switches fleet to Neste renewable diesel

Cemvita demonstrates “gold hydrogen” production in situ, sets up subsidiary

Oleophobic hydrophobic magnetic sponge selectively soaks up oil, sparing water and wildlife

T&E study: Europe’s growing use of animal fats in fuels is becoming increasingly unsustainable; 8,800 dead pigs for Paris-NY flight

Neste exploring ways to use waste plastic as a raw material for fuels and plastics

LG Chem, Dansuk JV to build Korea’s first next-generation hydro-treated vegetable oil plant

BTG and GoodFuels exploring options for joint investment to convert pyrolysis oil to low-carbon fuel for ships

REMONDIS and Neste partner to develop chemical recycling of plastic waste; targeting >200 kilotons/year

Shell to build one of Europe’s biggest biofuels facilities for SAF and renewable diesel; 820,000 tonnes/year

Goodyear unveils 90% sustainable-material demonstration tire, approved for road use

Total begins producing sustainable aviation fuel in France

British Airways, Phillips 66 sign sustainable aviation fuel supply agreement

Tüpra? and Honeywell sign licensing agreement for the use of Honeywell UOP Ecofining technology; renewable diesel and SAF

PNNL biocrude-to-diesel demo passes 2,000-hour catalyst stability milestone

Bridgestone partners with LanzaTech on end-of-life tire recycling technologies

Lithium Americas begins construction at Thacker Pass

Aemetis finalizes $7B of supply contracts for 100% of Riverbank Plant Production of SAF and RD for up to 10 years

St1 Etanolix food-waste-to-ethanol plant integrated into oil refinery in Gothenburg

Jumbo and Goodfuels partner to test drop-in Bio-Fuel Oil on offshore decommissioning project

Neste Oil building pilot plant to produce waste-based microbial oil for NExBTL renewable diesel fuel; commercial production possible by 2015

HEET to conduct first Boeing-COMAC Technology Center aviation biofuel research project focused on waste cooking oil

In a US first, the oil and gas sector will pay fines for excess methane emissions

Neste and DSM announce strategic partnership to create high performance polymers made from sustainable feedstock

Neste Oil Looking to Waste-based Microbial Oil As Feedstock for NExBTL Renewable Diesel

Canada backs demonstration-scale algal biorefinery project in the oil sands; Algal Carbon Conversion

Aemetis selects Worley to provide engineering for ‘Carbon Zero 1’ renewable jet and diesel production plant

Raven SR to supply sustainable aviation fuel to ANA and JAL

Aemetis selects Worley to provide engineering for renewable jet and diesel production plant; Axens technology

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