Methanol & e-fuels

Supply constraints and rising costs threaten the UK’s ability to meet sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) targets, warns UK governmental advisory body Climate Change Committee (CCC) in its Seventh Carbon Budget.

US-based bioenergy company WasteFuel and Turkish waste management firm ITC plan to develop a green methanol biorefinery in Ankara, Turkey.

Saudi Arabian vertically integrated developer Red Sea Global (RSG) has introduced sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Saudi Arabia for the first time, making it available at Red Sea International Airport in partnership with Irish airports...

Electrofuels may have a strong profile in transport decarbonisation, but the stubbornly high cost and the infrastructure challenge is holding things back, according to Murray Douglas, Head of Hydrogen Research at Wood Mackenzie.

In the past few years, the price of ammonia has been riding a rollercoaster, with the cost impacted by disruptions arising from the pandemic, from the surge in energy prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,...

Synthetic fuels are a beguiling proposition because they are a fit with existing energy infrastructure while being better for the environment. But the cost remains stubbornly high. Anthony Wright spoke to Wood Mackenzie’s Murray Douglas...

One of the biggest users of gaseous hydrogen today is crude oil refineries. The flow of gas that’s put to use in many conventional refineries comes from having a steam methane reformer (SMR) on-site to...

Nigerian and Chinese partners have signed a €7.6bn ($7.9bn) deal to develop a green hydrogen-based methanol project in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. It marks one of Africa’s largest hydrogen investments to date.

Hungary-based oil and gas company MOL Group has produced hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at its Slovnaft refinery in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) captured directly from the air is being used to develop sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) in a demonstration project in Finland.