Oil major BP has agreed to buy a Brazilian ethanol producer for $680 million, expanding its presence in the country’s biofuels industry in what it said was the largest deal to date for its alternative energy unit. BP, which has…
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BP expands in Brazilian biofuels with $680 mln buy
Tagged with: BP, Brazil, Brazilian biofuel production, CNNA, Companhia Nacional de Acucar e Alcool
Posted in Biofuel Production
Posted in Biofuel Production
BP: Biofuels only major way to decarbonizes road fuel
Biofuels represent the only way to significantly reduce carbon emissions in road transport fuel and are likely to account for at least 12 percent of supply by 2030, an official with oil giant BP said on Wednesday. “There is no…
Tagged with: bioethanol plant Hull, bioethanol plant UK, BP, BP biofuels, Olivier Mace, Vivergo
Posted in Biofuel Production, Biofuel Research, News
Posted in Biofuel Production, Biofuel Research, News
BP Plans $1B Wind, biofuel Investments For 2011
BP plans to invest $1 billion in 2011 in its renewable energy business, roughly the same amount it invested last year. During the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call, BP CEO Bob Dudley said that a bulk of the company’s green Capex…
Tagged with: biofuel investments, Bob Dudley, BP, Cedar Creek II wind farm, renewable energy business, Tropical BioEnergia
Posted in Biofuel Production, Biofuel Research, News
Posted in Biofuel Production, Biofuel Research, News
BP says biofuels growth will outpace oil in 2011-2030 period
In the UK, BP published for the first time a summary of its forward-looking analyses. In Energy Outlook 2030, BP projects that primary energy use will grow by nearly 40% over the next twenty years, with 93% of the growth…
Tagged with: biofuel production, BP, OECD, Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development
Posted in Biofuel Production, News
Posted in Biofuel Production, News
Three companies fined for breaches of UK biofuel rules
Renewable Fuels Agency imposes fine on Yorkshire Petroleum Company, as well as BP and Total subsidiaries The UK’s biofuels watchdog has today fined three companies a total of £60,000 for failures to comply with environmental legislation designed to reduce carbon…
Tagged with: BP, Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations, Renewables Obligation, RFA, RO, RTFO, Total subsidiaries, UK's biofuels watchdog, Yorkshire Petroleum Company Ltd
Posted in Biofuel legislation, News
Posted in Biofuel legislation, News
BP gushes over improved ethanol
British Petroleum’s (BP) disastrous Gulf oil spill will forever be a part of our nation’s gasoline-powered history. The oil giant is trying to introduce an improved ethanol that could assist us in weaning ourselves off of oil and making that…
Engineered Yeast Boosts Biofuel Production
Researchers have engineered a strain of yeast that simultaneously consumes two sugars found in plants, a process that could make biofuel production faster, cheaper and more efficient. The researchers tweaked Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a yeast commonly used to convert plant sugars to…
BP reportedly bids for Brazil’s Cerradinho Group
BP PLC has bid $466 million for a 50% stake in Brazil ethanol maker Cerradinho Group as the oil major looks toward increasing its biofuel offerings, according to published reports. BP PLC’s /quotes/comstock/13*!bp/quotes/nls/bp (BP 43.60, +0.61, +1.42%) bid faced a…
Tagged with: BP, bp biofuel, BP oil spills, BP PLC, Cerradinho Group, Tropical BioEnergia
Posted in Biofuel Production, News
Posted in Biofuel Production, News
Frontier wheat club offers biofuel benefits
Frontier has revealed details of its farmer contract to supply wheat to the Vivergo bioethanol plant, being built on Humberside. The factory will use 1.1m tonnes of wheat a year and is due to start production in mid 2011, with…
Tagged with: BP, British Sugar, carbon score, DuPont, Frontier, Humber Gold club, Humberside, UK Biofuel, Vivergo bioethanol plant
Posted in Biofuel Production, Biofuel Research, News
Posted in Biofuel Production, Biofuel Research, News
BP sees biofuel growth from U.S. grass, Brazil sugar
BP is focusing its biofuel efforts on Brazilian sugar cane and U.S. energy grasses, holding off on investments in the rest of the world for the moment, a senior executive of the global energy group said on Thursday. James Primrose,…
Tagged with: BP, BP oil spills, Brazilian sugar cane, U.S. energy grasses
Posted in Biodiesel, Bioethanol, Biofuel Production, Biofuel Research, Food Crops, News
Posted in Biodiesel, Bioethanol, Biofuel Production, Biofuel Research, Food Crops, News
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