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EcoCeres manufactures green and renewable HVO using patented technology at a facility located in Jiangsu Province / Ecoceres

Under China's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), the government has set a target of consuming 50,000 tonnes of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) annually by 2025. Additionally, policymakers are exploring the implementation of a blending mandate for the aviation industry, which could require blending SAF at rates of 2% to 5%.

According to several sources, China's SAF industry is on track for significant growth, with total announced production capacity projected to reach 3.63 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) by the end of the decade. This expansion aligns with broader regional trends, as the Asia-Pacific region's SAF production capacity is expected to hit 3.5 million metric tons annually by the end of 2025.

Review of SAF Key Players and Capacities

Below is a list of some SAF operating production plants and projects in China:

OPERATING 

Sinopec Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Company

• Plant Location: Zhenhai District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province
• Capacity: Currently produces 100,000 tpy HEFA-based SAF and renewable diesel at its Zhenhai refinery. Plans for expansion are underway.
• Technology: Uses Sinopec's proprietary SRJET biofuel production technology. The plant is Asia's first RSB-certified SAF production unit.
• Details: The biofuel plant been operational since May 2022; most of its output is exported internationally. It has also received airworthiness certification to supply biojet fuel to China's aviation market.

Junheng Industry Group Biotech 

• Plant Location: Puyang Industrial Park, Henan Province
• Capacity:  the company started producing SAF in December 2023 at a new 400,000 tpy plant, costing 1.3 billion yuan ($180 million). 
• Production: the company expects to produce 150,000 tonnes of SAF in 2024. 
• Feedstock: UCO and waste oils from municipal, agricultural, and forestry sources
• Achievements: First private enterprise in China to receive SAF airworthiness approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). Conducted successful engine tests using 100% SAF. SAF product obtained the EU ISCC bioenergy certification and is sold to European countries.

EcoCeres 

• Plant Location: Zhangjiagang , Jiangsu Province
• Technology: Proprietary technology. 
• Capacity: 100,000 tpy SAF / 200,000 tonnes renewable disel 
• Details: Operational since 2022; primarily exports its production to international markets. 

PROJECTS

Sinopec and TotalEnergies Joint Venture

• Plant Location: Sinopec refinery in China (specific location not disclosed)
• Capacity: Planned capacity of 230,000 tpy SAF
• Feedstock: Local waste or residues from the circular economy (e.g., UCO and animal fats)
• Technology & Partners: Will utilize Sinopec's SRJET technology combined with TotalEnergies' expertise in technical operations and distribution.
• Timeline & Details: This collaboration aligns with Sinopec's strategy for low-carbon solutions and TotalEnergies' goal of producing 1.5 million tons of SAF annually by 2030.

Tianzhou New Energy

• Plant Location: Weiyuan, Sichuan Province
• Capacity: 200,000 tonnes per year (tpy) SAF facility, with plans to expand to 500,000 tpy
• Feedstock: Used cooking oil (UCO)
• Timeline: Initially targeted late 2024 for start-up, now delayed to late 2025
• The facility will process 200,000 tpy of UCO into SAF, equivalent to about 4,300 barrels per day.

Zhejiang Jiaao Enprotech

• Plant Location: Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province
• Capacity: 500,000 tpy SAF facility under construction
• BP acquired a 15% stake in the project for $49.56 million (354 million yuan)
• Feedstock: Waste cooking oil and other renewable resources processed using HEFA technology
• Details: One of the largest SAF plants in the region; expected to play a significant role in China's green aviation sector. 

Sichuan Jinshang Environmental Protection Tech

• Plant Location: Suining, Jintang County, Sichuan Province
• Planned capacity of 400,000 tpy SAF
• Timeline: Construction expected to begin by July 2025 and complete by the end of 2025
• Details: Partnering with Honeywell UOP to use Ecofining technology. 
• Feedstock: The plant will process renewable feedstocks like UCO and animal fats into SAF.

Shandong Haike Chemical

• Plant Location: Dongying City, Shandong Province
• Capacity: Retrofitting an existing refining unit to produce 500,000 tpy SAF using Axens’ Vegan technology
• Timeline: Expected completion by late 2025
• Details: The first application of Axens’ Vegan technology in Asia. The retrofit aims to produce high-quality SAF for domestic and international markets.

We will continue to update this list of SAF production plants in China and globally.

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Ecoceres biofuel plant was added. The hydrotreating facility produces renewable diesel and SAF products based upon proprietary technology. 


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Feb 2, 2024 / SGS - On January 20, 2024, Jun Heng Biotechnology’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) achieved a significant milestone as its sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) received airworthiness approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). This marks the first instance of a private refinery obtaining official airworthiness approval, enabling commercial use.

The Jun Heng Biotechnology is located in Puyang Industrial Park, Henan province. The company utilizes used cooking oil (UCO) or oil derived from municipal, agricultural and forestry waste as a feedstock for SAF. The company plans to enhance its SAF production capacity to 400,000 tonnes annually by 2025. It anticipates reaching a production volume of 137,000 tonnes in 2024.

In early January 2024, the company conducted SAF performance and functional tests on the auxiliary power unit batch, with all test results compliant with the National No.3 jet fuel standard, GB 6537-2018. Additionally, the company achieved the first successful engine test run using 100% SAF in China.

It's noteworthy that, as of now, the Chinese government has not implemented a specific SAF standard in the country. Therefore, all SAF applied to aircraft must adhere to the GB 6537-2018 standard.

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Vegan plant to produce renewable fuels has been added to La Mède Biorefinery.


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Axens' Vegan^® technology to produce renewable diesel (RD) and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) through the hydrotreatment of a wide range of vegetable oils and animal fats, including used cooking oil (UCO), has been added.


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June 13, 2022 -- Zhenhai Refining and Chemical's 100,000 ton/year bio-jet fuel industrial production unit

The biofuel plant employing SRJET technology for the production of Sustaainable Aviation Fuels (SAF), started up in June 2022,  has been added to the Zhenhai Refinery.

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Sinopec's SRJET technology for the production of SAF from bio-oils has been added.
 

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Técnicas Reunidas / March 10, 2025 -- In a significant step toward Europe's energy transition goals, Técnicas Reunidas and Siemens Energy have been selected to carry out the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for the La Robla Green project, set to become one of Europe's largest renewable methanol production facilities. The ambitious initiative is located in La Robla, a municipality in the province of León, Spain.

The project is spearheaded by Spanish company Reolum, which specializes in innovative energy transition solutions. The planned facility will produce 140,000 tons per year of green methanol (e-methanol) by combining renewable hydrogen with biogenic carbon captured from a biomass cogeneration plant. This approach ensures a sustainable production process with significantly reduced carbon emissions compared to conventional methanol production methods.

Green methanol is gaining prominence as a key alternative fuel for decarbonizing sectors with traditionally high emissions, such as maritime transport and aviation. It can be used directly as fuel or serve as feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), providing a crucial pathway toward achieving Europe's climate neutrality targets.

The La Robla Green project brings together the expertise of several global leaders in decarbonization technologies. Siemens Energy will lead the development of the renewable hydrogen unit, while Técnicas Reunidas will oversee biogenic carbon capture and e-methanol production units. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will provide advanced CO₂ capture technology, and Johnson Matthey will supply its proprietary eMERALD™ technology, enabling direct hydrogenation of captured CO₂ into methanol.

This collaborative effort aligns with Técnicas Reunidas' broader decarbonization strategy known as TRACK, aimed at accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy. The project recently received substantial financial backing from the Spanish government: €180 million from NextGenerationEU funds allocated by the Spanish Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge. This funding supports Spain's H2 Valles Program initiative to establish major renewable hydrogen clusters across various regions including Aragon, Andalusia, Castile and León, Catalonia, and Galicia.

With this investment and collaboration among industry leaders, La Robla Green positions itself as a landmark project in Europe's renewable energy landscape. It is expected to significantly contribute to regional economic growth while advancing Spain's leadership in green technologies and sustainable fuels.

#greenhydrogen  #emethanol  #sustainablefuels  #sustainableaviationfuel  #saf  #carboncapture  #co2capture  #sustainability 

SAF plant at the Gela biorefienry

Gela (CL, Italy), 23rd Jan 2024, eni press release

Enilive announces the commissioning of its first plant to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) at the Gela biorefinery, in Sicily.

Production has started at the plant, which has a capacity of 400,000 tonnes per year, representing almost a third of the expected European SAF demand in 2025, following the implementation of the ReFuelEU Aviation regulation. Regulation (EU) 2023/2405 requires aviation fuel providers to ensure that jet fuel supplied to aircraft operators at each airport in the European Union contains a proportion of SAF. The required proportion of SAF will increase over five year increments from a minimum 2% from 1 January 2025 to 6% from 2030, 20% from 2035, 34% from 2040, 42 % from 2045, until reaching 70% from 2050.

Since September 2022, Enilive has signed agreements with several airlines for the supply of SAF, thanks to the initial production achieved through synergies between the Gela Enilive biorefinery and other Eni facilities, using waste-based feedstocks. Enilive aims to increase its biorefining capacity to over 5 million tonnes per year by 2030 and enhance its optionality for SAF production to 1 million tonnes per year by 2026, with further potential to double production by 2030. These targets will be supported by ongoing projects at the Venice biorefinery and the construction of new biorefineries in Malaysia and South Korea.

The Gela biorefinery has the capacity to process 736,000 tonnes of biomass per year, which is primarily derived from waste and residual feedstocks such as used cooking oils, animal fat and by-products from vegetable oil processing. The innovative SAF production in Gela has been made possible by plant modifications, in particular to the isomerisation unit, which has been equipped with a reactor and a product separation section, as well as upgrades to the tank farm and logistics infrastructure. Investments to improve the feedstock pretreatment section, including the construction of a third degumming line, are nearing completion. These improvements will further enable the diversification of waste and residues feedstocks that can be converted into HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil) biofuels.
 

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The description of the ENI | UOP Ecofining process has been updated.


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eni's GELA refinery description has been updated.

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Deoxygenation reactions (i.e., dehydration, decarboxylation, and decarbonylation) are important in the cracking process to remove Oxygen in vegetable oils (triglycerides) and replace it with hydrogen to form liquid renewable fuels.

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2023 Market update on Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) republished with permission from Aaron Robinson

Findings include: 
► Global SAF use was 310,000 tonnes in 2023 compared with 140,000 tonnes in 2022, or 121% growth.
► SAF use increased to 0.11% of the industry’s 286 million tonnes consumption of aviation fuels compared with 0.06% in 2022.
► 78% of global SAF use in 2023 was by European passenger/cargo carriers—even in advance of 2025 mandates—compared with 74% in 2022.
► 69% of global SAF use was at just three carriers: Air France-KLM, DHL, and IAG (56%). Each used more than the US airline industry’s 48,000 tonnes.

Note: laggards on the following chart are in fact leaders—because many airlines have not used SAF at all.




About the data:
► the author looked at voluntary disclosures (annual reports and sustainability reports) from the top 60+ airlines globally. The reported data covers 64% of global fuel use.
► If an airline talked about SAF in their reporting but did not say how much, it was recorded as as 1 tonne.
► The scale is logarithmic, so small visual differences are actually quite large.
► Not all data is reported the same way, but consistent conversions are used throughout.
► If the airline has a non-December fiscal year, the most recent fiscal year with data is shown.
► If data for an airline are misreported or not reported, the author will correct them or add missing figures.

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Sunset on a refinery

"Oil refineries across Europe will be forced to shut as the West abandons fossil fuels in the race to net zero," – said BP CEO Murray Okincloss, commenting on the company's financial statements, The Telegraph reports.

He believes that older and smaller refineries in the EU will close or switch to biofuels as conventional oil refining becomes unprofitable due to a combination of soaring fuel taxes and falling demand from drivers switching to electric cars.

“So I would expect the least efficient refineries, which are the smallest, oldest around the world, to gradually close down as the world transitions over the next 10 to 30 years.”

BP has four refineries in Europe, three of which are already planned for conversion to produce biofuels including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Grangemouth Refinery in Scotland, which is owned by Ineos, employs 500 people but is scheduled to shut early next year.

Data from Fuels Europe shows that refining capacity in the EU, as well as in the UK, Switzerland and Norway, is already declining. Capacity has fallen from 781 million tonnes a year in 2009 to 677 million tonnes now. This means that Europe accounts for about 15% of the world's refining capacity - well behind the US with 21% or  APAC with 36%.

Contradicting the statements reported above, BP said in June that it was scaling back this year’s plans for the development of new sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel projects at its existing sites, pausing planning for two potential projects while continuing to assess three for progression, according to Oilprice.

“This is aligned with BP’s drive to simplify its portfolio, focusing on value and returns,” the UK-based supermajor said.

In June, BP declared to continue investing in deepwater fields in the Gulf of Mexico, and made a statement saying it was "scaling back" new biofuels projects.

The company has tempered its enthusiasm for its low-carbon program, and with it cut its climate commitments, adapting to an operating model that assumes continued high oil demand into the 2040s and beyond.

“Labour policy says oil and gas production in the North Sea will be with us for decades to come ... They launched a consultation process with the sector last night and we’ll be engaged deeply with them on that,” Okincloss said.

The oil giant's net profit for the second quarter of this year was higher than expected ($2.76 billion). The company's low-carbon and natural gas division, on the other hand, performed poorly, posting a loss of $0.1 billion.

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SAF or Sustainable Aviation Fuel is also called HEFA-SPK.

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After halting work on biofuel plant in Rotterdam, 🇳🇱 The Netherlands, and booking a $1bn write down, Shell has also pulled out of e-SAF project planned with state-owned 🇸🇪 Swedish power utility company Vattenfall.

“Vattenfall and Shell have decided to pause their collaboration in the HySkies electrofuel project while Vattenfall continues the search for new partners,” said Vattenfall in a statement.

The joint project, with the planned capex of €780m ($845m), was launched in 2021 with initial plans to produce 82,000 tonnes of e-SAF and 9,000 tonnes of renewable diesel per annum. The project envisaged the use of hydrogen from 200MW electrolysis plant, biogenic CO2 captured from a waste-to-energy plant and sustainable ethanol as feedstocks at the site.

It was due to begin operations in March of 2027.

On the other hand, the company said that it will also not avail financial support via the EU Innovation Fund, considering it is infeasible for the project to succeed within the framework of that agreement and aiming to free up funds for others to use in their ambitions to decarbonise.

Vattenfall-Shell e-SAF project was awarded €80.2mn ($87mn) grant in January 2023.

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Source: Fayaz Hussain, 8^th July 2024, SAF Investor

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, July 02, 2024:

Shell Nederland Raffinaderij B.V., a subsidiary of Shell plc, is to temporarily pause on-site construction work at its 820,000 tonnes a year biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam in Pernis, 🇳🇱 the Netherlands, to address project delivery and ensure future competitiveness given current market conditions.

As a result, contractor numbers will reduce on site and activity will slow down, helping to control costs and optimise project sequencing.

“Temporarily pausing on-site construction now will allow us to assess the most commercial way forward for the project,” said Huibert Vigeveno, Shell’s Downstream, Renewables and Energy Solutions Director.

Shell took a final investment decision for the planned biofuels facility  in September 2021. The facility is designed to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel made from waste.

Additional information regarding project status and timelines will be communicated in future updates.

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