🎱 etasca’s 8 🎱 – Weekly Roundup - June 21st, 2025
1️⃣ Yara Clean Ammonia, in partnership with the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD), has completed the world’s first ship to ship ammonia bunkering trial in Western Australia.
ppPLUS Insights: See information on the Yara Group: Corporation: Yara
2️⃣ Sparc Hydrogen's pilot plant has been delivered ahead of schedule by EPCM contractor INCITIAS. The project is developing a novel photocatalytic process to produce green hydrogen using concentrated sunlight.
3️⃣ Syzygy Plasmonics has begun FEED with Kent for NovaSAF 1. Aiming to be the first electrified biogas to SAF facility, expected to produce 350 000+ gallons of SAF annually in Uruguay.
4️⃣ The U.S. Senate Finance Committee’s has revised Section 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit, allowing biofuels made from foreign feedstocks but applies a 20% discount after 2025. It removes the SAF bonus (capping credits at $1/gal) and extends the program through 2031. ILUC penalties are excluded to protect U.S. agriculture.
5️⃣ FincoEnergies has adopted Ofiniti’s electronic bunker delivery note technology replaces paper to digitize marine biofuel deliveries and coordinate in real time.
6️⃣ TotalEnergies has signed a long-term agreement with Quatra, a leading European recycler of UCO, to supply 60 000 t/p/y of feedstock starting in 2026 and will be delivered to TotalEnergies’ biorefineries at La Mède and Grandpuits.
7️⃣ ExxonMobil has completed Project FAST, a £800 million investment at its Fawley refinery, UK. The project includes a new low-sulphur diesel facility alongside a new hydrogen plant, reducing the UK’s reliance on fuel imports. Full production expected mid-July.
ppPLUS Insights: Refinery and ExxonMobil structures: Site: Fawley
8️⃣ Danish electrolyser manufacturer Green Hydrogen Systems has announced plans to file for bankruptcy after selling their electrolysis technology to German rival thyssenkrupp nucera.