BIOFUELS/ETHANOL WORLD MARKET
UPDATE
December 2011
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDUSTRY NEWS
ExxonMobil’s 2012 Outlook for Energy Sees Efficiency, Developing World Economic Growth and Natural Gas Reshaping Global Demand through 2040
Brazilian Sugar Energy Industry Looking to Double in Size, But Requires Public Policies
RFA Challenges U.S./Brazil Council on Fair Trade
Sugarcane Ethanol Producers Respond to Unfair Legislation to Extend Tariff
RFA Responds to EU Ethanol Investigation
NREL Opens New Doors to Renewable Energy Data
Fifty-five Grants Available to Retrain Workers for Biofuels Industry
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
POET Drops Annual Water Use by 770 Million Gallons Since 2009
FuturaGene Opens China HQ and Biotech R&D Center in Shanghai
LifeSensors Announces Bioethanol Development Collaboration with USDA, ARS
OriginOil Announces New Research Agreement with U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory
POET Targets Additional 10 Percent GHG Reduction, 500 Million Pounds of Biobased Products
FEEDSTOCKS
USDA Announces New Insurance Pilot Program for Biofuel Friendly Oilseed Crop with Potential to Create Jobs, Stimulate Rural Economies
CELLULOSIC
Emmetsburg Farmers Complete 61,000 Ton Biomass Harvest for Cellulosic Ethanol
Inbicon Certifies Poyry USA as Preferred Engineers for North American Build-Out of New Ethanol Technology
Genome-scale Network of Rice Genes to Speed the Development of Biofuel Crops
ALGAE
Algal Biomass Organization Applauds U.S. Navy’s Algae Biofuels Purchase
OrginOil Announces Commercial Algae Harvesting System
Nucleic Acids Research Journal Publishes Sapphire Energy Peer-Reviewed Research Paper on a Chloroplast Genome from Green Algae
BIODIESEL
Biodiesel Industry Sets New Annual Production Record, Fueling Job Creation
Neste Oil Starts up its New Renewable Diesel Plant in Singapore
ADM to Build Biodiesel Plant in Lloydminster, Canada
Verenium Announces Launch of Purifine® PLC Enzyme for Use in Biodiesel Production
By Year End, POET to Produce Enough Corn Oil for 12 Million Gallons per Year of Biodiesel
The Louisville Biodiesel Cooperative, MSD and The Green Triangle in the 9th District Announce Waste Cooking Oil Recycling Partnership
CME Group Launches Argus US Biodiesel Swap Futures Contract
BIOFUEL USE
U.S. Navy Makes World’s Largest Advanced Biofuels Order for Delivery May 2012
LanzaTech Gets $3 Million Contract from FAA for Alcohol to Jet Fuel Project
Virent Secures $1.5 Million FAA Award to Advance Jet Fuel Certification
Boeing and Hawai’i BioEnergy to Work on Renewable Biofuel for Aviation
Iowa and Montana Report Record E85 Sales
Testing Demonstrates Gevo’s Isobutanol-Gasoline Blend is Superior to E15 Fuel for Boaters
Pearson Fuels is First in Alternative Fuels Industry with Educational Animated Video
BIOFUELS TRANSPORT
Great Plains’ BlendStar to Build New 96 Car Unit Train Terminal
FINANCIALS
Abengoa
China Clean Energy
KiOR
Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy
Viaspace
COMPANY NEWS
Total and Amyris Partner to Produce Renewable Fuels
Greenleaf Biofuels and Tenaska BioFuels Announce Agreement
China Clean Energy Announces Acquisition of Feedstock Provider Handan Guanxin Technology Ltd.
Waste Management and Fulcrum BioEnergy Announce Strategic Investment
AE Biofuels Announces Company Name Change to Aemetis
Grace Completes Expansion in Brazil to Support Renewable Fuels Customers
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grants Gevo’s Request for Reexamination and Invalidates Butamax Patent ‘889
Eco Ventures Group Provides Corporate Update
BioFuel Energy Comments on Recent Stock Trading Activity
PROJECT NEWS
Advanced Cellulosic Biofuels Company Sundrop Fuels Selects Louisiana Site for Planned First Facility