TABLE: Companies race to add biodiesel capacity

16 October 2006 15:22  [Source: ICIS news]

Adds new biodiesel projects in Europe in table.

 

LONDON (ICIS news)--Spanish food group Sos Cuetara will invest €30-35m ($37.6m-28m) in a 200,000 tonnes/year biodiesel plant in Aranjuez, Spain for start-up in late 2007, a company spokesman told ICIS news on Monday.

 

This would be the latest addition to the market as companies are racing to invest in new capacity ahead of a European Union mandate that all petroleum-based diesel fuel includes 5.75% biodiesel over the next four years.

The European Commission directive calls for the biofuels content of road transport fuels used in member states to rise to 5.75% by 2010 and 20% by 2020.

Below is a table of biodiesel projects reported by ICIS news over the last 12 months.

 

 

Company	Location	Capacity        (tonne/year)	Expected start-up
Abengoa Bioenergy/Cepsa	San Roque, Spain	200,000	-
Acciona Energie	Fos-sur-mer, France	200,000	Q1 2009
Activos	Spain (5 plants)	280,000 (combined)	Sep 2007
Becco Biofuels	Madrid, Spain	128,000	early 2007 (full operation)
Biodiesel Rostock	Rostock, Germany	200,000	-
Bionor	Huelva, Spain	550,000	late 2008
Biopetrol Industries	Rotterdam, Netherlands	400,000	Q3-2007
Biopetrol Rotterdam	Rotterdam, Netherlands	400,000	Jul 2007
Biovalue	Eemshaven, Netherlands	70,000	mid-2007
Bunge Deutschland	Mannheim, Germany	100,000	-
Bunge Iberica	Bilbao and Cartagena, Spain	200,000 (Bilbao)	early 2007
Cargill	Frankfurt/Hoecht, Germany	200,000	-
Cepsa	Huelva, Spain	200,000	2007
Diester Industrie	France	250,000	Q2 2007
Diester Industrie	Venette, France	100,000	Q3-2006
Dosbio	Cadiz, Spain	200,000	H2 2008
Ebro Puleva	Andalusia, Spain	200,000	2008
Ebro Puleva	Cadiz, Spain	200,000	H1 2008
Eco Petroleum	Vidin, Bulgaria	150,000	Q4 2007
Elstar	Malbork, Poland	Expansion       + 100,000	2008
Emerald Biodiesel Neubrandenburg	Neubrandenburg, Germany	40,000	-
Eolia Mistral/Entaban Ecoenereticas	Bilbao, Seville and Ferrol, Spain (3 plants)	450,000	Q1 2008     (Seville late 2006)
EOP Biodiesel	Brandenburg, eastern Germany	Expansion: 32.5,000 to 132.5,000	early 2007
Greenergy	Immingham, UK	100,000	Q4 2006
	Immingham, UK	100,000	Q3 2007
	Liverpool, UK	100,000	Q4 2007
Greenline	Vaslui, Romania	25,000	Jan 2007
Infinita Renovables	Spain	3 x 300,000	2008
Neckermann-Renewables	Piesteritz, eastern Germany	Over 200,000	Dec 2006
Neste	Porvoo, Finland	170,000	mid-2007
Neochim	Feluy, Belgium	200,000	late October 2006
Peter Cremer	Jurong Island, Singapore	200,000	Q1-2007
PKN Orlen	Trzebinia, Poland	Expansion      + 100,000	Q4 2006
PKN Orlen	Trzebinia, Poland	200,000	2009
Repsol YPF/Acciona Energia	Spain	1m	2007-2009
Sos Cuetara	Aranjuez, Spain	200,000	late 2007
Sudstarke	Schrobenhausen, Germany	100,000	-

By: Mark Watts
+44 20 8652 3214

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