Biofuels news

Moldau: industry to cut dependence on oil imports

The Republic of Moldau is to take steps to reduce its dependence on imported oil. Measures include projects to make biofuels. It was announced in Nov 2007 that a bioethanol plant was to be erected in Giurgiulesti.

7  June  2008

Moldau: industry to cut dependence on oil imports

The Republic of Moldau is to take steps to reduce its dependence on imported oil. Measures include projects to make biofuels. It was announced in Nov 2007 that a bioethanol plant was to be erected in Giurgiulesti.

7  June  2008

VTB Bank arranges $150mln loan for Titan Group

VTB Bank has opened $150mln credit line for Titan Group, which intends to build a biotechnological complex worth RUR40bn in Omsk. The project implies construction of a polypropylene-bioethanol plant, of a RUR2.5bn pig-rearing complex with a capacity of 100,000 heads, a meat processing factory and an animal feedstuff producing plant. The new facilities are scheduled to be brought on line in autumn 2008, Vedomosti reported.

26  May  2008

Kazakhstan government drafts bill re scope of bioethanol application

The Kazakh government is drafting a bill that regulates the scope of bioethanol application, said Almaty akim Akhmetzhan Yesimov. The government is preparing a relevant draft law, whereby each city must use bioethanol making at least 2% of the total fuel consumption,» he said Wednesday at the environmental public hearing in Almaty.

26  May  2008      Комментарии: 1

Moldovan Seminte Nord Seeks Investors for $40 Mln Bioethanol Plant

Moldovan corn processor Seminte Nord is looking for investors in a $40 million (25.1 million euro) bioethanol production plant, the first in Moldova, which could ensure the country's energy security, a top company official said.

26  May  2008

Biohim launches biofuel in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan company Biohim, which belongs to the Titan group, has started selling biofuel in the Kazakh market. The Kazakhstan government has been preparing laws for the regulation of biofuel production and marketing. The first phase of the Biohim grain processing complex, including a bioethanol plant, was commissioned in Sep 2006. Bioethanol production started in 2007, but the material was sold to foreign customers only. Part of production is supplied to Kazakh blenders for biofuel production.

26  May  2008

Agriculture Prominent in New Russian Government

The overall agricultural and food portfolio is held by one of two first deputy prime ministers in Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's new government, and the Ministry of Agriculture has been accorded broader authorities: ability to override decisions of the veterinary and plant quarantine service, acquisition of the forestry agency and reacquisition of fisheries; certain land tenure authorities; and authority to draft trade-related decrees. Minister of Agriculture Aleksey Gordeyev was reappointed to the post he has held since 1999, but former Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister for the Agroindustrial Complex.

22  May  2008

Greenfield, PvT Capital sign deal to build ethanol fuel plant in Belarus

Ireland's Greenfield Project Management Ltd and Germany's PvT Capital GmbH on May 20 signed a strategic agreement on joint construction of an ethanol fuel production with an annual capacity of 65 million decaliters. PvT Capital GmbH is expected to acquire a stake in Greenfield Project Management Ltd. «We will join the project as an investor and share our solutions and management. The project is part of our expansion strategy,» said PvT Capital COO Christiaan Verbakel.

22  May  2008

Kazakh leader says speculation behind world food crisis

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev believes that speculation is the main cause of the world food crisis. The president said this at a soiree about Kazakhstan held within the framework of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East in the Egyptian city of Sharm al-Shaykh on Sunday [18 May], the [Kazakhstan Today] news agency says referring to the Kazakh presidential press service.

«Changes in climate or production of bioethanol are said to be the causes of these cataclysms. However, in my view, intense speculation is also the main cause,» Nazarbayev said.

19  May  2008

Ukrspyrt Intends To Launch Production Of Biogas At 32 Distilleries By 2011

Ukrspyrt, the state concern of alcoholic beverage industry, has intention to launch production of biogas at 21 distilleries by 2010.

This follows from Ukrspyrt's executive summary, the text of which has become available to Ukrainian News.In particular, for 2008 the concern has plans to introduce biogas production at extra-budget expenses at 10 enterprises, total capacity in equivalent of natural gas is expected at 36 million cubic meters a year.

18  May  2008