BIOFUELS/ETHANOL WORLD MARKET
UPDATE
November 2011
TABLE OF CONTENTS
OVERVIEW
Rising Demand and Declining Resources Confirms the End of Cheap Oil
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Funding to Expand the Production and Availability of Advanced Biofuels
DoD Unveils LMI Drafted Report on Alternative Fuel Use
Pennsylvania DEP Awards More than $4.4 Million in Alternative Fuels Grants
American Coalition for Ethanol Expresses Disappointment with Mostly One-Sided Congressional Hearing on RFS
Biodiesel Industry Statement on Supreme Court RFS2 Decision
RFA Responds to Allegations for European Ethanol Producers
More than 100 Brazilian Sugarcane Mills Registered Under RFS2 Can Ship Ethanol to the U.S.
TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS
Joint BioEnergy Institute Scientists Identify New Microbe-Produced Advanced Biofuel as an Alternative to Diesel Fuel
VESP Membrane System Converts Liability to Asset While Improving Ethanol Yields
Berkeley Lab to Share in Three New ARPA-E Energy Projects
FEEDSTOCKS
Lower Corn Production Forecast for 2011/12
Sugarcane Crushing in South-Central Brazil Slower, Reaches 23.40 Tons in First Half of October
Mission Increases Jatropha Oil Supply by 4.7 Million Barrels Completing the 2011 Planting Season
Mission Achieves the World’s First Jatropha ISCC Certification
CELLULOSIC
Coskata, Inc.’s Semi-Commercial Facility Demonstrates Two Years of Successful Operation
Emmetsburg Farmers Complete 61,000 Ton Biomass Harvest for Cellulosic Ethanol
BlueFire Renewables Signs Financing MOU for Its Fulton, Mississippi Biorefinery and Other Projects in the U.S. and China
ALGAE
Algenol Biofuels Inc. Announces Ground Breaking of Its Pilot-Scale Integrated Biorefinery in Lee County, FL
OrginOil’s New Harvest Pretreatment Boosts Algae Growth Rates
USDA Funds Project to Encourage Renewable Fuel Production, Job Creation in New Mexico
BIOFUEL USE
Solazyme Announces First U.S. Commercial Passenger Flight on Advanced Biofuel
Alaska Airlines’ Biofuel-Powered Service Takes to the Skies
Honeywell Green Jet Fuel™ Powers Regular Commercial Route for Aeromexico
Air China Completes First Sustainable Biofuel Flight Using Pratt & Whitney PW4000 94 inch Engines
RFA Responds to Marine Industry Claims on E15
BIODIESEL
Record Biodiesel Production Continues in September
DDGS
DDGS Valued at 1.22:1 When Compared to Traditional Corn, Soy Feed Rations
FINANCIALS
Amyris
The Andersons
Aventine Renewable Energy
Biofuel Energy
Gevo
Green Plains Renewable Energy
Lignol
Metabolix
Pacific Ethanol
Praj
Solazyme
COMPANY NEWS
Verenium Announces Up to $16 Million in New Secured Financings
BlueFire Forms Subsidiary SucreSource, LLC to Provide Cellulosic Sugars to Advanced BioFuels Companies
INEOS Bio Names AMEC as its Global License Support Engineering Firm for Its Waste to Bioenergy Technology
Ashcroft Diversified Bio-Oil Inc. Ceases All Associations with Clean Power Concepts, Inc.
PROJECT NEWS
Rentech’s Integrated Bio-Refinery Project Mechanically Complete
Advanced Refining Concepts Expands its Northern Nevada GDiesel® Refinery
REX American Resources Acquires Additional 50 Percent Equity Interest in NuGen Energy Ethanol Plant, Raising its Ownership to 98 Percent
Vogelbusch USA to Provide Distillation and Dehydration System to INEOS Bio JV BioEnergy Center
Pacific Ethanol Signs Operations and Maintenance Agreement with ZeaChem
Next Generation Biofuels Project Launched in Queensland
EPA, DOE to Study Potential for Renewable Energy Possibilities on Farmland Industries Nitrogen Plant Site in Lawrence, KS