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Brazil having a hard time selling its biodiesel in Europe

Brazil's President Inázio Lula da Silva visited Europe not long ago and he promoted the benefits of Brazilian biodiesel in France and Spain. This might have seemed like a good idea, if it weren't for the fact that Spain's biggest oil company, Repsol, had just frozen the construction of a new biodiesel plant alongside the country's largest refinery in Tarragona. This leaves Brazil with just one relatively large oil company, Portugal's Galp, to distribute its biodiesel in the Old Continent. So, what about France, Europe's fourth largest ... Read more →

Brazil's Petrobras to open ethanol fuel stations in Japan Xavier Navarro

Japan currently imports half a billion liters of ethanol per year, and about 380 million of those come from Brazil. The Brazilian energy giant Petrobras thinks that this business can be expanded, so ...

Petrobras creates biofuel subsidiary Xavier Navarro

Petrobras has announced that it's creating a subsidiary company which will work exclusively with biofuels and could become Brazil's leading biofuel exporter. The Brazilian giant believes a new company ...

Brazil is not losing the train of cellulosic ethanol Xavier Navarro

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the President of Brazil visited last week a plant near São Paul which is testing a new method to obtain ethanol from sugarcane pomace bagasse (what's left ...

Petrobras wants to become one of the biggest five oil companies Xavier Navarro

Petrobras continues saying they can be one of the most powerful oil companies in the world by means of biofuels. The truth is that the latest movements from Brazil and its state-owned oil company ...

Galp Energia and PetroBras launch biodiesel joint-venture 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Portugese energy company Galp Energia is hooking up with Brazil's PetroBras on a new biodiesel project for the European market. The plan is produce 600 thousand tonnes per year of vegetable oil in Brazil that will be converted to biodiesel fuel. The new project will be a 50/50 joint-venture between ...

Brazil wants to become the Saudi Arabia of ethanol 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

"Brazil has all the necessary conditions to become the Saudi Arabia of ethanol", affirms Petrobas board member, Paulo Roberto Costa. He also adds "Brazil is surely to become the preferred biofuel provider of the world". After such enthusiastic (!) affirmations from Mr. Costa, let's have a look at ...

India closing biofuels plants, Brazil opening them 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Falling oil prices are starting to claim some biofuel casualties in India, with biodiesel not being able to compete at the pump. With crude oil dropping to around $50 per barrel, diesel in India currently costs around Rs 36 per litre (US$3.10 per gallon) which makes biodiesel at Rs 41 per litre ...

Brazil embarks on biodiesel 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

In an effort to complement its world-leading ethanol production, Brazil is looking to embrace biodiesel and meet a goal of producing 855 million liters per year by 2011. To do so, Petroleum Brasil (more commonly known as Petrobras), the state-owned oil company, is looking to build 15 new biodiesel ...

Brazil to experiment with hydrogen 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Brazil, the world's largest ethanol producer, announced it will be conducting two projects investigating the use of hydrogen as a fuel for buses. The first will be to implement a test fleet of 5 buses in Sao Paulo that run on hydrogen fuel cells. After the four-year experiment, assuming the ...

Venezuela's state oil company looking into making biodiesel 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Venezuelan state oil company (PDVSA) announced recently that it would likely be producing biodiesel and ethanol within the next few years. Ethanol will be the first of the two biofuels to market, since the company has already adopted ethanol production technology and plans on selling the first ...

New diesel fuel in Brazil 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Brazil is making further steps towards energy independence with the announcement of a new diesel fuel, which is mixed with a variety of vegetable oils at the refinery. Petrobras, the state-run oil company, claims Brazil will be the most important country for renewable energy, which might already be ...


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