(Reuters) – Rising biodiesel production may cut Brazil’s 2011 soyoil exports and Argentina’s soyoil shipments will also be lower than potential, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World said on Tuesday.

Brazil, the world’s No. 2 soyoil exporter, may sell only 1.50 million tonnes of soyoil overseas in the 2011 calendar year, down from 1.56 million tonnes in 2010, Oil World forecasts. Leer más »

By Erin Voegele/SunPower Biodiesel celebrated its grand re-opening on May 26. 

Cumberland, Wis.-based SunPower Biodiesel has officially restarted operations. The facility, which was first commissioned in 2008, held a grand opening ceremony May 26. The event featured a ribbon cutting ceremony with local politicians, facility tours and an educational seminar. Leer más »

By JENNY MANDEL of Greenwire, December 2010.An appeals court rejected a challenge today by petroleum industry groups to U.S. EPA’s biodiesel blending requirements, in a move affirming the agency’s implementation of the renewable fuel standard (RFS2).

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously dismissed arguments by the American Petroleum Institute and the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association that the court should review EPA’s rules on biodiesel blending. Leer más »

DANIEL LOOKER, Business Editor.After meeting with Republican leaders Tuesday morning Senator Chuck Grassley, the ranking GOP member of the Senate Finance Committee, told reporters that 71 tax credits that expired in 2009 as well as credits expiring this month will be renewed to last through the end of 2011 as part of the tax deal worked out between Congress and the White House.

“I’m led to believe the extenders of 2009 would be extended for the years 2010 and 2011,” the Iowa Senator said. That would be good news for the struggling biodiesel industry, which lost its $1-a-gallon tax credit at the end of 2009. Leer más »

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina will make energy companies double the amount of soy-based biodiesel they blend with regular diesel fuel by the end of this year, the government announced on Thursday.

The fuel-mix requirement will be raised from 5 percent now to 7 percent initially and to 10 percent by year’s end, Planning Minister Julio De Vido said. Leer más »

Global Biodiesel Market Expected to Produce 45,291 million liters by 2020.

Production increased from 959 million liters in 2001 to 15,760 million liters in 2009, at a CAGR of 41.9%. Supported by governments to increase energy independence and meet the rising energy demand the biodiesel market is expected to produce 45,291 million liters of biodiesel in 2020, representing a CAGR of 10.1% during 2009 to 2020. Europe is the leading biodiesel market with a production share of 49.8% followed by the Americas with a production share of 32.8% and Asia Pacific with a share of 4.4% in 2009. Leer más »