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Biodiesel newsSurging Diesel Demand Poses Challenge To RefinersHigh global demand for diesel, particularly in Europe, will cause tight middle distillate markets in the coming years as refiners struggle to fill the supply gap, oil industry participants said at Platts' Refining Conference in Brussels. 23 October 2007 Minister: Food producers, retailers to fix prices to fight inflationMajor Russian food product producers and retailers have agreed to fix their prices at the current level, Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev told reporters Monday following a meeting of officials devoted to the food products market. 15 October 2007 Czech company Primagra has launched a CZK 100 mln biodiesel plant in Milin, Central BohemiaCzech company Primagra has launched a CZK 100 mln biodiesel plant in Milin, Central Bohemia, the company stated. «The plant's annual capacity of the methyl ester of rape-seed oil is 35,000 tonnes,» the company said in a statement. 12 October 2007 Rape Growing Project to Be Implemented in Orel RegionA project for growing rape and other crops on more than 20,000 hectares will be implemented in Orel Region. 9 October 2007 Aircraft Supplier & MRO NewsBoeing, Air New Zealand and Rolls-Royce announced on Sept. 28 a Memorandum of Understanding to conduct a biofuel demonstration flight designed to help accelerate the development of viable and sustainable alternative fuels for commercial aviation uses. Boeing is exploring second-generation biofuel feed stocks and processes that have the potential to reduce greenhouse gases throughout their entire lifecycle. 1 October 2007 RENEWABLES: CIS Countries News Review Sept 2007 - Part 1 of 2Austrian Mayr-Melnhof Holz Efimovskij will build a biofuel plant with an annual capacity of 70,000 tonnes in Russian Leningrad region, in the northwestern part of the country. The facility will open in 2008. 1 October 2007 Biofuels face high costs, tax hurdles in CISHigh costs, taxes and bureaucracy are stifling the development of a biofuel sector in the former Soviet Union, officials say, despite the launch of plants in Kazakhstan and Ukraine. 26 September 2007 Ukraine: soybean and products market
25 September 2007 PetroChina plans $1.3 bln on alternative fuelsPetroChina, Asia's top oil and gas firm, plans to spend 10 billion yuan ($1.33 billion) by 2020 to develop alternative fuels, Chinese media reported on Monday, enticed by record high oil prices. 17 September 2007 Êîììåíòàðèè: 2 Russia allows exclave to export rapeseed duty-freeRussia has allowed its exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea to ship rapeseed free of an export tariff levied elsewhere in the country, the government said on Thursday. 13 September 2007 Êîììåíòàðèè: 1 
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