China Bio Energy Holding Group Co. Ltd. (Nasdaq: CBEH - News; the “Company”), a leading integrated bio-diesel producer & distributor, wholesale distributor and processor of heavy oil and finished oil products, and operator of retail gas stations in China, today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire, through a 29-year lease, all of [...]
A Nevada company is proposing to build a 20-acre algae farm near the Houston Ship Channel to produce biodiesel.
Russell Industries Inc., a publicly traded holding company listed on the Pink Sheets under the ticker RUSL, says the proposal is currently under financing review by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Financial [...]
Local companies will use new, recycled oil
Pia Hallenberg Christensen
Staff writer
November 13, 2008
A biodiesel plant under construction for the past couple of years in Odessa, west of Spokane, is up and running.
Inland Empire Oilseeds produced its first 15,000-gallon batch of biodiesel last weekend.
“Hopefully by the end of this run we’ll have 30,000 gallons of oil,” said [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 13 (Bernama) — Carotech Bhd will supply over 50 percent of its palm biodiesel capacity to Europe and US starting January 2009 through its partnership with Trafigura Beheer BV Amsterdam.
Managing director, David Ho, said under the agreement, the palm methyl-ester producer will supply Trafigura 60,000 to 84,000 metric tonnes of its biodiesel [...]
Manager Tyson Keever says production will trigger a statewide mandate for fuel
On Saturday, Salem’s SeQuential Pacific Biodiesel shipped out the first batch of biodiesel from its new plant.
The new facility has a 5-million-gallon per year capacity — a tremendous increase over the company’s previous capacity of 1-million gallons per year.
But the plant’s expansion is not [...]
NETTLETON, Miss., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Universal Bioenergy, Inc. (Pink Sheets: UBRG - News) CEO, Dr. Richard Craven, stated, “Algae can become a prominent source of energy, and with several new algae technology companies emerging, it is a good time to form alliances. We have identified and spoken with some candidates but certainly welcome contact [...]
If the spread between the selling price of palm methyl ester and the feedstock holds, biodiesel production exports should continue at robust pace, says the commodities minister
MALAYSIA has raised its 2008 biodiesel production export forecast to 200,000 tonnes, more than double that of last year’s 95,013 tonnes.
“Export of biodiesel is picking up in volume [...]
Petrobras will participate, today and tomorrow (10/20 & 21), in the Biofuels Houston Summit III, a conference held annually in Houston, Texas (USA), to debate scenarios and opportunities in the biofuels sector. The trends in the Brazilian ethanol industry, the challenges to be faced to open the global market to ethanol, agriculture aimed at biofuel [...]
By Anna Austin
Energy solutions research and development company BioCentric Energy Inc. has released details of five significant projects that will occur over the next three years, most of which are centered on the development and use of algae as an emissions absorption agent, biodiesel feedstock and electricity generator.
Over the past thirty months, BioCentric Energy has [...]
SNOHOMISH, Wash. — An eastern Washington county has started drying canola seed grown by local farms at a new $1.2 million facility, the first step toward making its own biodiesel.
Oil from the seeds will be refined into biodiesel, a renewable fuel derived from vegetable oils or animal fats, and used to power county vehicles.
The project [...]
