Biofuels
Driving innovation in the downstream: IRPC returns to New Delhi
Gulf Publishing Company and Hydrocarbon Processing are pleased to announce that IRPC 2017 will be held April 18–20 in New Delhi.
White House denies Trump order on biofuels program pending, markets roiled
(Reuters) -- The White House on Tuesday denied that President Donald Trump planned to issue an executive order to change the national biofuels program, after the US Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) said Trump's team had informed the group an order was pending.
RFA: Trump to shift biofuel blending burden off refiners
(Reuters) -- The head of the Renewable Fuels Association said on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump's administration would lift the responsibility for fuel blending off refiners, which had long requested this change to the nation's biofuel program.
Mexico tequila maker has a shot at turning agave waste into fuel
TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -- One of Mexico's most famous tequila companies, Herradura, hopes to turn into fuel the thousands of tons of waste it generates each year from the spiky blue agave plants used to make the spirit, and cut its energy bill, said its engineering director.
Big Corn courts old foe Big Oil to combat electric car threat
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) -- A US biofuels lobbying group on Tuesday said it is seeking to work with longtime rival the oil industry to fight the threat to both from subsidies for electric vehicles.
Neutral Fuels pioneers dairy waste as new biofuel feedstock
Dubai – After two years of research into new ways to create biofuels, Neutral Fuels has become the first company to successfully use butter, cream and ghee waste as a feedstock for creating commercial biofuel.
UK grocer first in Europe to use new trucks fueled by food waste
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -- A British supermarket has become the first retailer in Europe to use a new type of tank that keeps trucks motoring on fuel made from food waste for 500 miles, almost twice the current average.
Green Plains sees 2017 US ethanol exports around 1.1 B gallons
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- US ethanol manufacturer Green Plains Inc sees the total industry on track to export 1.1 billion or more gallons of the biofuel in 2017, even with China absent as a buyer, an executive said on Thursday.
US ethanol producers pump at record levels, policy clouds loom
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- US ethanol producers pumped out the biofuel at a record pace last week, but higher output belies growing concern in the industry that policy changes in the United States and China could upend demand for their product.
Report: Cheaper renewables to halt coal and oil demand growth from 2020
LONDON (Reuters) -- The falling cost of electric vehicle and solar technology will halt demand growth for oil and coal from 2020, according to research published on Thursday, posing a threat to fossil fuel companies unprepared for the transition.
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