By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters)/The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of Canadian crops such as canola and corn in U.S. biofuels on Thursday, a move that lifted Canadian canola prices and may help the U.S. meet its ambitious targets for biofuels.

The EPA’s designation of Canadian crops as a renewable biomass will allow U.S. biofuel makers to collect tax credits for using them, said Canola Council of Canada president JoAnne Buth.

“I suspect we will see more canola moving into the U.S. now,” Buth said in an interview. Leer más »

By Jerome Carlo R. Paunan.QUEZON CITY, Aug. 16 (PIA) — The Aquino administration is eying the potential of the oil derived from coconuts or “coco-biodiesel” to reduce the country’s overdependence on imported fuels, an official from the Philippine Coconut Authority said Tuesday.

During the CNEX – Talking Points forum held at the Philippine Information Agency, PCA public relations officer Thelma Tolentino said government is considering to increase the current minimum two percent blend of coco-diesel due to its many benefits. Leer más »

(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 Bryan Sims | April 05, 2011/ ADM plans to acquire Prairie Pride’s soy crush and biodiesel facilities in Deerfield, Mo.

Photo: Prairie Pride Inc.

Decatur, Ill.-based agribusiness firm Archer Daniels Midland Co. has agreed to acquire a soybean crushing facility and 30 MMgy biodiesel production plant from Prairie Pride Inc. in Deerfield, Mo. ADM will also form a partnership with PPI for the biodiesel portion of the business.

PPI responded to ADM’s acquisition of its soy crushing and biodiesel production assets, stating, Leer más »

Algae Fuels, a corporate technology group in Chile, has created a biodiesel from microalgae in the Mejillones’ Pilot plant. This pioneering initiative was aimed at obtaining energy based on renewable and domestic sources, at the same time reducing CO2 emissions.

Algae Fuels is a group of companies such as Copec, E-CL, Rentapack, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Bioscan and is financially supported by both the Corporations for the Promotion of Production (Corfo) and InnovaChile. Leer más »

Neste Oil has started production at its biodiesel plant in Singapore, the world’s largest with an annual capacity of 800,000 tons. The plant will produce the NExBTL diesel which, according to the company reduces the carbon emissions by 40 to 80 percent depending on the percentage blending with the conventional diesel.

The biodiesel from the plant can be either blended with the conventional diesel or used directly. The company claims that the biodiesel is compatible with the all the diesel engines currently in use. Neste Oil is building a similar plant in Rotterdam, The Netherlands which should be ready by Q2 2011. Leer más »

SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) on Tuesday plans to build in Brazil a second biodiesel plant, which is expected to produce 164,000 metric tons a year.

The new plant will be built in Joacaba, Santa Catarina, next to existing ADM soybean-crushing and -refining facilities, ADM said in a statement.

ADM spokesman Roman Blahoski said the company wouldn’t disclose how much the new plant will cost to build. Leer más »

Illinois biodiesel producer BN National Trail announced this morning that it has secured a purchase agreement of all biodiesel process equipment from Kreido Biofuels.

I-Newswire) United States, October 19, 2010 – Illinois biodiesel producer BN National Trail announced this morning that it has secured a purchase agreement of all biodiesel process equipment ( http://bluenorthernenergy.com/distributors.php ) from Kreido Biofuels. The shipment of the equipment is now underway from Houston, TX and is expected to arrive in Newton, IL by October Leer más »

US – Renewable Energy Group is to acquire biodiesel assets in Clovis, New Mexico from ARES Corporation who will concurrently invest an additional $8 million into REG in an all common stock transaction.

ARES Corporation of Burlingame, California — an engineering, risk management, software/IT and project management comapny in the United States — owned the 15 million gallons per year facility in Clovis, New Mexico. Leer más »

The project is being developed by Bioscan in the region of Antofagasta, with co-financing InnovaChile. (Photo: CORFO)

A new project, which is financially supported by the Chilean government, will promote the diversification of energy through the production of biofuels from microalgae.

The main objective of the initiative is to develop algae production which captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and also creates competitively priced biodiesel fuels. Leer más »