ConocoPhillips, Tyson form biodiesel alliance

16 April 2007 17:45  [Source: ICIS news]

TORONTO (ICIS news)--ConocoPhillips said on Monday it would form an alliance with US food company Tyson Foods to make up to 175m gal/year of renewable diesel from animal fats.

 

The US oil and gas major would use proprietary thermal depolymerisation technology to process beef, pork and poultry by-product fat with hydrocarbon feedstocks to make ultra-low sulphur diesel fuel, it said.

 

Production was expected to start in late 2007, Houston-based ConocoPhillips said.

 

The company would make investments at several of its refineries to produce the fuel, it added, without disclosing how much it would invest.

By: Stefan Baumgarten
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