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Biodiesel newsChina: Devastating Storm Impacts Agriculture and Transportation ChannelsOn the week of January 27, unprecedented storms in central and southern China had a direct adverse impact both to the planted area of many agricultural crops and an indirect impact due to problems with transportation, electricity and storage. A combination of seasonally high prices, due to the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, and the recent inflationary situation in food prices will further hit consumers. The fruit and vegetable sector is the most affected followed by the rapeseed crop in Hunan and Henan provinces. 6 February 2008 German EOP to build agrarian objects in Zhytomyr region.The German company European Oil Products BioDiesel AG will construct in Ukraine a number of agrarian objects. As many as 509 M. EUR will be invested into the project. 1 February 2008 Êîììåíòàðèè: 1 BRIEFING - Asia energy.A Hyogo-Prefecture-based technology company has teamed up with Kobe University to devise a better way of turning waste cooking oil into biodiesel for vehicles. This technique makes use of a microorganism that has been genetically engineered to carry the enzyme lipase on its surface. 29 January 2008 Russian, German cos to build 35 mln euro biodisel plant in Volgograd RegRussian agricultural company Rusagroproekt's unit Tersa Oil concluded an agreement January 18 with Germany's Abako Management & Corporation to build a 35 million euro rapeseed processing and biodiesel production plant in the Volgograd Region, the regional government said late January 18. 21 January 2008 Êîììåíòàðèè: 1 How Microsoft is going green; Biodiesel trucks, solar-powered data centers are just a couple of the initiatives getting Microsoft on environmentally friendly trackMicrosoft, with 70,000 employees spread out across the world, is deep into a corporatewide evaluation of how it can become a more environmentally friendly corporation. 14 January 2008 Belarus-based ZAO Slavneft-Start to build 8 new filling stations in 2008Slavneft-Start will refit two stations and build one gas-filling warehouse and install 11 gas-filling units in 2008. One of Slavneft-Start stations will start selling biodiesel fuel in the long run. 9 January 2008 Korean ENERTEN LTD to build biodiesel production plant in Ukraine.Korean company Enerteh Ltd intends to build a plant for the production of biodiesel in Mykolaiv region (South Ukraine), the press service of the Mykolaiv regional state administration reported. 3 January 2008 Êîììåíòàðèè: 1 USA: oil prices may go down in 2008Many energy experts are predicting that the price of oil will fall in 2008 from its current level of about $93 a barrel. Behind the predictions: a slowing US economy and stronger production from both OPEC and non-OPEC sources. In addition, tensions with Iran seem to have eased somewhat, and the supply of oil from northern Iraq appears to be better. Increased production of ethanol and biodiesel will also help. «Next year, we will probably be in a range of $80 to $85 a barrel,» says Rick Mueller, an analyst with Energy Security Analysis of Wakefield, Mass. «And if the US goes into a recession, the price forecast will be lower.» 26 December 2007 Êîììåíòàðèè: 1 EU-27 Oilseeds and Products Update Dec 2007Oilseed production in the EU27 in has been strongly influenced by weather. After the early and warm spring, the north western part of the EU has had cold and rainy weather while the south western parts were there was severe drought. Prices of vegetable oils are on record highs triggered by the bad weather conditions and the demand from the biodiesel and the food industries. Imports of rapeseeds were much lower during the first six months of 2007 while imports of soybeans increased compared to 2006. Imports of rapeseed oil and soybean oil were both increasing during this period while imports of sunflower seed oil and palm oil decreased. 12 December 2007 Ukrainian Bio Fuel Producers Are Promised Considerable BenefitsDeputies of the Yulia Timoshenko Block faction (ruling «orange» coalition) have submitted a bill to Ukrainian parliament, offering tax benefits to the producers of biological types of fuel. 6 December 2007 
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