The Philippine National Oil Co.-Alternative Fuels Corp. (PNOC-AFC) is targeting to put on commercial production a 400,000 liter per year jatropha methyl ester (JME) plant as soon as jatropha harvest starts toward year-end. PNOC-AFC is just awaiting the availability of feedstocks in order to start its JME production, according to Lt. Gen. Romeo P. Tolentino, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Biofuels’
PNOC-AFC sets comm’l production of jatropha methyl ester this year (7/01/2010)
Posted in Manila Bulletin News, tagged Biofuels, Fuel supply, Jatropha on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Supply lack may derail biofuels thrust (7/01/2010)
Posted in Business World News, tagged Biofuels, Ethanol on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
THERE COULD BE supply problems at gas stations by next year unless Congress amends a four-year-old law requiring oil companies to mix biofuels with gasoline, an Energy official said. This is because the volume of ethanol produced by local manufacturers is severely inadequate to meet the required blend, said Zenaida Y. Monsada, director of the [...]
Shell opts for ethanol importation from Brazil to meet E10 blend (6/24/2010)
Posted in Manila Bulletin News, tagged Biofuels, Ethanol, Shell on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With fledgling domestic production, Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation is opting for continuous importation from Brazil so it can comply with the higher mandated ethanol blend of 10 percent (E10) which shall be enforced starting February next year. In an interview with reporters, Pilipinas Shell country chairman Edgar Chua noted that “if local supply is available [...]
Independent oil players support Biofuels Act (6/22/2010)
Posted in Philippine Star News, tagged Biofuels, Ethanol on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The country’s independent oil players junked yesterday the claim made by the Ethanol Producers Association of the Philippines (EPAP) that the oil firms are against the Biofuels Act, the law which seeks to enable the country to reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels. “That claim was farthest from the truth as the oil industry [...]
Oil firms say local ethanol expensive (6/22/2010)
Posted in Business World News, tagged Biofuels, Ethanol on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
THE INDEPENDENT Philippine Petroleum Companies Association (IPPCA) yesterday rejected claims of the Ethanol Producers Association of the Philippines (EPAP) that it is hindering the development of a local biofuel sector. EPAP had said oil companies preferred imported to locally produced biofuels. In a statement, IPPCA Chairman Fernando L. Martinez said EPAP must first enhance production [...]
Chemrez Technologies sees more growth from biofuels (6/22/2010)
Posted in Business World News, tagged Biofuels, Renewable energy on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
LISTED CHEMREZ Technologies, Inc. expects biofuels to continue as its largest operating business in 2010. In a statement, Chemrez Technologies pointed to the government’s plan to increase the blend of coco-biodiesel in all diesel sold in the pumps to 5% from 2%. “Coco-biodiesel and other oleochemical specialties will continue to be the largest operating business [...]
Local ethanol producers’ commitment not enough to meet 2011 E-10 mandate (6/18/2010)
Posted in Manila Bulletin News, tagged Biofuels, Ethanol on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Biofuels Law’s prescriptions will be to jack up the mandated blend of ethanol to gasoline at 10 percent (E10) starting February next year, but what ought to be delivered by local producers at 110 million liters is still way below the estimated 400 million bioethanol demand within that timeframe. “We are even lucky if [...]
Petron wants more ethanol suppliers (5/21/2010)
Posted in Business World News, tagged Biofuels, Ethanol, Petron on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
OIL REFINER Petron Corp. is looking for more local producers of ethanol, noting that domestic supply is not enough to comply with fuel blends set by law. In a statement, the company said it was open to “pursuing potential supply or off-take agreements with local ethanol producers and other prospective investors in the industry.” “We [...]
DOE mulls 2nd CNG refill station (11/09/09)
Posted in Philippine Star News, tagged Biofuels, CNG on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Department of Energy (DOE) is considering the possibility of putting up a second compressed natural gas (CNG) refilling station, DOE assistant Secretary Mario Marasigan said over the weekend. “There is an ongoing feasibility study which will involve a technical working group and all CNG players (bus operators, Malampaya consortium, Pilipinas Shell) for a prospect [...]
New biofuel production facility planned in Negros Occidental (11/05/09)
Posted in Business World News, tagged Biofuels on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
BACOLOD CITY — A group of businessmen and sugarcane farmers led by Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Roberto L. Montelibano is partnering with foreign investors to build an ethanol plant in Negros Occidental. Mr. Montelibano, president of Biofuels International Phils., Inc., said his company is now finalizing a joint venture agreement with [...]
