TABLE: Companies race to add biodiesel capacity
Mark Watts
16-Oct-2006
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 |
– |
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