http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/china-biofuel-makers-bet-on-sustainable-aviation-fuel/ Biofuel firms are pouring more than $1 B into building China's first plants to turn waste cooking oil into aviation fuel for export and meet domestic demand, once Beijing mandates the fuel's use on airplanes to cut emissions. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/basf-expands-its-biomass-balance-portfolio-for-selected-chemical-intermediates/ BASF will expand its biomass balance offering to include BMBCertTM 1,4-butanediol (BDO), tetra-hydrofuran (THF), polytetra¬hydrofuran (PolyTHF®) and 3-(di¬methyl¬amino)pro¬pyl¬amine (DMAPA). http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/us-appeals-court-upholds-biofuel-blending-mandates-for-2020-2022/ A U.S. appeals court upheld a rule from President Joe Biden's administration that set the amount of biofuels that oil refiners were required to blend into the nation's fuel mix from 2020 through 2022, rejecting a challenge by oil refiners to the mandates. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/hif-global-secures-nearly-165-mm-in-investments-to-develop-efuels/ HIF Global announced a combined investment from existing shareholders and the Japanese energy company Idemitsu Kosan, securing $164 MM to fund its eFuels projects. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/us-renewable-diesel-glut-hits-refiners-margins/ A rush by U.S. fuel makers to recalibrate their plants to produce renewable diesel has created a supply glut for low-emissions biofuels, hammering profit margins for refiners and threatening to impede a young industry. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/nextchem-johnson-matthey-partner-in-waste-to-methanol-technology/ NEXTCHEM’s MyRechemical will provide its proprietary Circular Methanol™ to its partner in Waste-to-Methanol technology -Johnson Matthey for the joint commercialization of the Circular Methanol™ technology package. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/vertex-energy-pauses-renewable-diesel-output-to-switch-back-to-fossil-fuels-citing-macroeconomic-woes/ U.S. refiner Vertex Energy will pause renewable diesel production at its refinery in Mobile, Alabama, and convert it to produce fossil fuels instead, citing macroeconomic woes which might persist through next year. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/saffire-renewables-biofuel-pilot-plant-to-be-developed-in-kansas/ On its path to opening a facility designed to turn agriculture residue into a scalable biofuel business, SAFFiRE Renewables, LLC plans to break ground on its pilot plant near Liberal, Kansas, in late 2024. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/ebrd-backs-ukraines-green-biofuels-project-with-60-mm-loan/ The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to provide a €60-MM loan to Lan-Oil LLC, a company established by fuel retailer OKKO Group in Ukraine, for the construction of a greenfield biofuels project. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/05/shipping-major-and-gcmd-to-pilot-fame-vlsfo-marine-biofuel-bunker-fuel-in-singapore/ a Japanese shipping major and the Singapore-based Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonization will launch a six-month project for trialing marine biofuel for bunkering, consisting of 24% fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) and very-low-sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) onboard a short-sea vehicle carrier that will call at multiple ports.