By CIARAN GILES/ , Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez, right, sits with her Vice President Amado Boudou prior to her announcement of a bill to nationalize Spain’s controlled oil company YPF, at Government House in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An Argentine prosecutor asked on May 14, 2012 for a federal judge to open an illegal enrichment probe against Boudou.

MADRID — Spanish oil company Repsol said Tuesday it had made the first step in taking legal action against Argentina for nationalizing its energy firm YPF.

In a statement, Repsol YPF SA said it had sent a letter to Argentine President Cristina Kirchner notifying her that it sees a controversy in the seizure of YPF which should be resolved by the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Leer más »

BUENOS AIRES,(Reuters) – Argentina will gradually
raise the blending requirement for biodiesel in diesel fuel, a
decision coinciding with Spain’s bid to buy fewer Argentine
biofuels, financial daily El Cronista reported on Tuesday. 

 The government aims to increase the biodiesel blending
requirement to 10 percent from 7 percent between May and
October, raising it by half a percentage point each month, El
Cronista said, citing unnamed sources familiar with the plan.  Leer más »

Micro-algae as a source of cheap renewable energy are at the center of new research being conducted at Argentina’s National Technological University.

The use of algae as a source of energy is being researched in different countries across the world and is at an advanced stage in the United States.

But as research has grown so has the realization that converting algae into energy may not be as cost-effective as originally thought possible. As a result, new research and investigation has been two-pronged, both to make optimum use of algae as a source of energy and to do it cheaply. Leer más »

BUENOS AIRES – The Argentine government said Friday that, in compliance with a 2006 law, all diesel fuel in the country must contain at least a 5 percent of biodiesel.

“Biodiesel will be incorporated into the energy matrix, initially accounting for 5 percent of domestic demand, that is 742 million liters (196 million gallons) per year, which is equivalent to the amount of conventional diesel fuel imported by Argentina in 2008,” Planning Minister Julio de Vido told a press conference. Leer más »

The European Biodiesel Board has called on the Argentinean authorities to step in and take a positive stance in balancing the trade in biodiesel between Argentina and Europe. In a statement issued last week the EBB explained that it had been growing increasingly concerned by the sharp increase in biodiesel exports from Argentina that the EU has been facing since January. It went on to say that it stood ready to take any appropriate step to restore, what it saw, as balanced market conditions. Leer más »

The Principles of Sustainability will be integrated in the Financial Operations of Climatic Change of the IDB based on a New Collaboration with the Round Table on Sustainable Fuels.

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IT WILL TURN THEM INTO THE MAYOR LOCAL PRODUCERS.

The cereal companies, that the Renova company conformed, will duplicate their present capacity in July, when they inaugurate new works. Thus, they will surpass AGD and Bunge, and Dreyfus.

Biodiesel plant/Photo: Fernando López King Leer más »

Expositor: Ing. Ernesto Quiles. Fuente: INTA ( Download PDF )

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Fuente: Deloitte & Co. S.R.L. – Argentina (Español)
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