NEXTFUEL ARGENTINA opens www.biodirectorio.com, a space for agricultural and bioenergy companies to offer their products and services; a thematic search engine of www.biodiesel.com.ar, one of the most visited sites on spanish-language about biodiesel, agriculture and renewable energy and with an excellent position in major Internet search engines as Google and Yahoo. Leer más »

Progress in the use of biofuels for power generation..

On May 20 the government announced the GENREÂ program (Renewable Generation), by which the state company ENARSA will call for tender the purchase of electricity produced through renewable energy. Leer más »

BIOFUELS.

The international financial crisis disrupted the business plans of the regional companies.

Oil industrials looking forward the national government to speed up the commercialization for biofuels in the domestic market of biofuels to face the retraction of the international markets.

In this way it was told in San Lorenzo to deputy Marcelo Fernandez, who is vice president of the SME comission and is chairman of the Central General Económica, a business group close to the national government.

After his visit to Rosario on thursday, where he met with businessmen in the city, he went to San Lorenzo to meet with local executives and visited the biodiesel plants of Bioenergía Patagonia and Vicentin. Leer más »

Kyung Wook Hur, Vice Minister, Ministry of Strategy and Finance of Korea; and Luis Alberto Moreno, President, IDB, signed a memorandum of understanding to promote programs and projects that foster cooperation between them and, in particular, activities related to green growth, sustainable energy and climate change.

Photo: Árlette Pedraglio

The Export-Import Bank of Korea and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will sign a an agreement to co-finance public and private sector projects worth as much as $2 billion in the next three years in Latin America and the Caribbean. Leer más »

WASHINGTON, (Reuters). – The future of the biodiesel market is in unstable land, because the closing of the legal lagoon of a fiscal credit and new European import tariffs could reduce the trade, said the Energy Information Administration. Â

It is expected that in 2009 in United States and with the standards of the renewable fuel, 500 million gallons (1900 million liters) of biodiesel be blended with diesel, a biofuel elaborated starting from oils or of animal fats. Â

The figure should be increased by law to 1000 million biodiesel gallons for 2012. This, together with the rise of the fuel prices, generated an increase in the production in the last years, and the tributary incentives sent great part of the fuel to the foreigner, in accordance with the EIA. Leer más »

Corrientes: it is located in the left riverbank of the Paraná River in the kilometer 1.208. The city of Corrientes has around 360.000 inhabitants. It has a 373 meters long dock with 14 feet depth, being of easy access. Operating barges, passengers’ small ships and the most important traffics are of general loads, fuels, wood, etc.Â

Barranqueras: it is located in the right riverbank of the Paraná River in the kilometer 1.198. The city of Barranqueras has around 57.000 inhabitants. It is at 10 km from the city of Resistencia. It has a 800 meters dock. The grain elevator has a capacity of 105.000 tons. The depth is of 10 feet. Operating grains, fuels, etc.  Leer más »

Lula with José Sergio Gabrielli, president of Petrobrás�
Photo: Ricardo Stucker/PR

One of the most eloquent gestures of how Brazil wants to be inserted in the world is given by its will of generating an energy independence regarding petroleum, but, mainly with its advance in the biofuels development starting from the sugarcane. For this, too, it allied with the United States. Â

Although the ethanol complex was still not able to form an international market, there are enormous bets on its development. Leer más »

It is the main world pole of the oil industry. From Timbúes, at the north of this city, up to Villa Constitution at the south, the 75 kms of coast of the river Paraná has a score of industrial complexes of the main trading and grain processing companies. The region around Rosario has become the first pole of the world´s oleaginous industry. From Timbúes, at the north of this city, up to Villa Constitution at the south, the 75 kms of coast of the river Paraná has a score of industrial complexes of the main trading and grain processing companies, more fertilizers logistics plants, even factories like that of Mosaic, malt houses, as that which Cargill mounted in Punta Alvear, and biodiesel factories. Leer más »

Does Binner have support or not?Â

The ARI that integrates the ruling alliance in Santa Fe, presented a bill to finish with the tax benefits. But now the opposition came out to speak against it and the industry is expectant.Â

Legislators justicialistas came out today to oppose to the suspension of thebiofuel promotion régime, as a bill presented by the ARI proposes. Leer más »

Green Fuel Argentina, of Spanish and national capitals, will lift a biodiesel plant in Rosario’s port.Â

As it was announced to punto biz by Osvaldo Sortino-president of Raiser, the local company that has 40% of Green Fuel Argentina-who specified that the works will start up toward ends of the year and that will take 20 months of work. The complex will demand an investment near to the u$s 30M. Leer más »