Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'ICIS'

ICIS has broadened the scope of its biofuel price reports.

ICIS has broadened the scope of its biofuel price reports. In Europe, adding to the comprehensive biodiesel coverage of rapeseed methyl ester (RME) and fatty acid methyl ester (FAME -5 & -0 CFPP), the report will now also reflect biodiesel...

ICIS bioresources summit

ICIS (the people that I work for: About ICIS) will be holding the 2nd ICIS Bioresources Summit, in Hardwick Hall, County Durham, UK on November 25. The conference will discuss the advances in bio-engineering and their impact on biofuels, bio-polymers...

EU to probe alleged US biodiesel dumping - AFP

Story on ICIS news this morning , that the EU to probe alleged US biodiesel dumping.(Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) Good to see the EU getting up and protecting its biofuel producers from what it sees as unfair...

Ethanol in the US

This is William Lemos, one of ICIS professional market watchers, talking about the state of the US ethanol market. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS. About ICIS) William has a good line on the Brazilain view of the US ethanol import...

The US Biodisel market

You might like to check out this video of Judith Taylor, one of ICIS professional market watchers talking about the state of the US biodiesel market. Judith was talking just ahead of the NPRA meeting in San Antonio, Texas a...

Brazil wants to be a biodiesel superpower too

Brazil wants to be a biodiesel super power as it jockeys for biodisel market share, but may be derailed by the high price of soy, according to, John Waggoner, on ICIS news. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) John's...

I'm moderating the 2008 World Biofuels Markets Congress

I'm going to be moderating the plenary session of the 2008 World Biofuels Markets Congress, to be held 12th-14th March, 2008 at the Brussels Exhibition Centre, Belgium. The organisers, Greenpower conferences, are expecting around 1300 people to turn up...

ICIS Biofuel Conference

I am going to be giving a presentation at the ICIS Bioresources Summit on 4 December Hardwick Hall Hotel, Sedgefield, County Durham, which promises to be fun. The conference department has put it together and the speaker list (apart from...

ICIS chemial business has biofuels feature

ICIS Chemical Bsiness, my old publication, has a feature on biofuels this week and is worth checking out....

Out and about

I'm going to be out and about for the next few days. The other parts of my job are pulling me towards the annual EPCA meeting (its all about petrochemicals) held, this year in Berlin. If you would like to...

Could methanol be the new ethanol?

Could methanol be the new ethanol in a couple of years time. I ask the question because my good pal, John Richardson, over on the Asian Chemicals Connection blog has an interesting post about a surfeit of methanol due from...

Biofuels in the US

I don't spend all of my time hammering away at this blog. They let me out occasionally. Here's a video that I made a little earlier this year about Biofuels in the US, it was shot in Texas and features...

The linkages between oil and soy prices

The linkages between oil and soya prices, and, more broadly, the link between food and fuel prices is investigated in this report by Judith Taylor, on ICIS News (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) Quoting from Judith's report for...

ICIS Biofuel Conference more details

ICIS will be holding its own biofuels conference in conjunction with Kline consulting in St Louis, Missouri, on 14-15 November. They seem to have an interesting speaker panel. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) I might be there myself......

Argentina progresses biofuel from seaweed

Argentinian companies are progressing with a process to produce biofuels from seaweed, according to ICIS news. Argentina’s Oil Fox and Biocombustibles de Chubut have teamed up to produce and export biodiesel from seaweed, according to president Jorge Kaloustian of Oil...

ICIS Biofuel Conference

ICIS, my employers, will be holding a biofuels conference in conjunction with the Kline Group in St Louis, Missouri on 14-15 November 2007. Our conference department is some way towards securing the first day's speakers. When I've got any more...

Brazil's new ethanol futures contract

Brazil launched a futures contract for anhydrous ethanol on its Mercantile and Futures Exchange. The announcement was made on 24 April and the aim is to give producers and investors a chance of some certainty in the market in the...

Biofuels seminar in Singapore

There is due to be a biofuels seminar in Singapore for people who want to understand the biofuels markets and relationships within and between them. It is being organised by my employer, ICIS and will be held on May 21....

Biofuels conference announced

A new biofuels event is scheduled for St Louis September. It will be called Biofuels 2007- A Global Perspective and will be jointly run by my employers ICIS and Kline & Co. It will be held at the Westin Hotel...

A new Asia Biodiesel report due

A new Asia Biodiesel report from ICIS is due on  21st March. The report will feature an FOB SE Asia assessment for Palm-based biodiesel (PME), much of which is being exported to Europe. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) ICIS pricing...