Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'BP'
Verenium: BP responds
I've just had this email from the press office at BP about its joint venture with Verenium which was mentioned in an earlier post today.We remain focused on commercializing the technology that we are developing jointly with Verenium and continue to progress...
UPDATED: Verenium and Aventine in difficulties: Reuters
Verenium could have jhad difficulty continuing as a company, its auditors say in a report from Reuters yesterday and carried in the UK's Guardian Business Feed.The same report says Aventine may need to take Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Key points...
More on BP Vereneum
Last night the press office at BP emailed me with more details on the agreement with Verenium. I like the way they talk about "energy cane" and "energy grasses" presumably energy cane is the stuff left behind after sugar processing,...
Corrected: BP ups Verenium investment
Corrected: Corrected amount of new investment by BP in Verenium from press release received from BP on 23 Feb 2009. BP is upping its investment in Verenium by $22.5m, according to Gas 2.0 blog, which has more details. Key point...
Business week spots butanol
Business Week has an article on biobutanol. As a run down of where we are with butanol its worth having, but there's no real peg for the story. ...
BP invests in Verenium
There's a Wall Street Journal article about BP investing $90 m in Verenium a US cellulosic ethanol technology company. Both firms hope to start a jointly making biofuel in a few years. The WSJ says this is BP's first venture...
Praj wins big biofuel contract to supply Vivergo
Praj has won a big biofuels contract to supply key equipment to Vivergo Fuels, UK through its subsidiary, BioCnergy Europa B. V, a Joint Venture with Aker Solutions, Netherlands, according to myiris.com,. The plant is designed to produce 400m litre/year fuel...
An outline of BP's biofuel strategy
There's an outline of BP's biofuel strategy from Rob New, head of the business at the firm, in a report from Rueters carried by Yahoo India....
We'll need around 196m gal biofuels/year by 2030
There are many with romantic notions about the role of the biofuels industry. One thing is certain, according to a BP speaker at the ethanolintel conference in Singapore, there's no way we can meet demand in the future by using...
Blending levels and biofuels
BP and the German biofuel group Verband der Deutschen Biokraftstoffindustrie (VDB) have fallen out over the level of blending and the type of biodisel to be blended in Germany, according to a report on ICIS news (Disclosure: I work for...
Jatropha: is it really a crop?
I thought that I'd take a look at Jatropha to see what all the interest from companies like D1 and BP is about. One thing that I've been wondering about is how much like a cropping plant, such as apples,...
BP and D1 oils in Jatropha venture
BP and D1 oils have agreed to form a joint biodiesel venture. Over the next five years the 50/50 joint venture D1-BP Fuel Crops plans to invest around $160m (€119m) on planting over 1m hectares of the oilseed bearing plant,...
Biofuel volumes to grow in UK, wheat costs up?
Biofuels volumes in the UK are set to rise, but will the announcement by BP, Associated British Foods and DuPont increase the price of food in the UK? The wide spread availability of biofuels in the UK took a major...
BP is crossing the oil bio divide
BP is crossing the oil bio divide, according to an interesting post on Biopact about BP and Mendel collaborating on rapid growing grasses for cellulosic biofuels....
Sensible biofuel points
Over on Climate Policy you can find Daniel Kammen, a professor at Berkeley -- which recently won a $500m donation from BP to look at alternatives to traditional gasoline -- make a number of very sensible biofuel points... He outlines exactly the...
Follow the volume
John G. Melo, previously president of U.S. Fuels Operations for BP has joined Amyris Biotechnologies as chief executive officer and aims to move the company into biofuels. Amryis Biotechnologies has previously been interested in using synthetic biotechnology to make high-value...
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