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11.27.07
China Expanding Strategic Oil Reserve
China plans to build a strategic oil reserve near the southwestern industrial ci...
11.21.07
China Will Move To Ease Fuel Shortages
China will increase fuel supplies to ease shortages, particularly for diesel, an...
11.20.07
Japan Seeks $1.37 Per Gallon Ethanol by 2015
Sixteen major Japanese firms including automaker Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's lar...
11.19.07
US & China To Sign Energy Pact
An agreement between the US and China to promote the use of ethanol and other bi...
11.14.07
Indonesia May Return To 5% Biodiesel Mandate
Indonesia plans to return to a 5% biodiesel blend in diesel within the next thre...
11.14.07
Aramco Sees Oil For Decades To Come
The president of Saudi Aramco said there are enough conventional and non-convent...
11.13.07
Fortum Värme has been granted an environmental permit for a new biofuel-fired co...
11.13.07
Tyson To Make Biodiesel From Poultry
Tyson Foods Inc. announced plans to buy a Brazilian poultry business and establi...
11.06.07
US At Top for Biofuel Investment
A recent index by Ernst & Young Global Ltd. concludes that the United States is ...
11.01.07
China Faces Fuel Supply Crisis
China raised domestic gasoline and diesel prices on Thursday, the first increase...
Jatropha Biodiesel Meets Spec
01.04.08
In the Philippines, PNOC Alternative Fuels Corp.’s jatropha-based biodiesel, tested in collaboration with the Technological University of the Philippines and Chemrez Technologies Inc., met both European and US biodiesel standards, according to data from PNOC-AFC.
The tests included jatropha oil and methyl ester production and characterization, development of high-value products, and actual performance testing of jatropha methyl ester. PNOC-AFC envisions production of 100,000 mt next year, 400,000 in 2010, and 500,000 in 2011.
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