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Members of the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance (SABA), which include Google, McKinsey, AVEVA and Bain & Company, have committed to purchasing sustainable aviation fuel certificates (SAFc) from Infinium’s Project Atlas. SAFc’s allow members to invest in SAF and e-SAF and claim the associated environmental benefits, without using the synthetic fuels directly within their own...
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India celebrated a synthetic fuels milestone at Deendayal Port Authority (DPA) Kandla, Gandhidham, Gujarat, when Gujarat’s Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW), Sarbananda Sonowal, and Assam’s Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma laid the foundation stone for the country’s first port-based e-methanol plant. A joint initiative between...
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Verso Energy has been selected by Q8 Aviation to supply electro-sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) through its DEZiR project for Q8’s European operations. The DEZiR site is based in Petit-Couronne, France, and will have a yearly production volume of 81,000 tons (73.5,000 tonnes). Q8 Aviation, the aviation arm of Kuwait Petroleum International, supplies jet fuel and SAF to over 75 airports in...
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Velocys has added to its Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reactor collection with the AlphaCore 800, the highest-capacity microchannel FT reactor to date. The reactor is designed for larger-scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and e-fuels projects. The AlphaCore 800 is designed to produce up to 800 bpd, or around 30,000 tonnes a year (kt/a), of FT liquids from a single reactor, and is particularly suited...
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Global e-Fuels reports back from the second Global Synthetic Fuels Assembly, which took place 8-9 September 2026 in London, UK. Despite attendees turning up brandishing umbrellas and shaking off raincoats, the 2nd Global Synthetic Fuels Assembly was anything but a washout. Chairperson Paul Davies, Chair of The Coalition for Negative Emissions, roused the early morning crowd with an...
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Allied Biofuels held a joint front-end engineering design (FEED) meeting with engineering and technology stakeholders in its electro-sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) and SAF project at Sinopec’s office in Ningbo, China. The collective, which includes Sinopec Engineering Group (China), Topsoe (Denmark), Sasol South Africa and Plug Power (US), are supporting Allied Biofuels’ $6.1 billion...
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Phelan Green has reached final investment decision (FID) for its electro-sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) project in Saldanha Bay, South Africa (SA). Contributors to the project include Johnson Matthey and Honeywell. Construction is expected to begin at the start of 2027, with first exports targeted for 2029. Johnson Matthey’s HyCOgen technology will be used to convert captured CO2 and...
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Shell Global Solutions International, Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) and AVL are developing a next-generation power-to-liquids (PtL) process that uses solid oxide co-electrolysis technology to produce electro-sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF). The collaboration will include an integrated pilot-scale test programme at Shell’s Energy Transition Campus...
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INERATEC and Ramboll will further their cooperation on the expansion of the ERA ONE power-to-liquid (PtL) plant in Frankfurt-Höchst, Germany. Both companies have already completed pre-front-end engineering design. The next stage will be an upgrading unit that converts synthetic raw products into standard-compliant fuels for aviation, advancing technology integration in the value chain and...
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Over 20 clean energy organisations have written a letter to the European Commission (EC) and Member States to warn against a loophole that would allow biofuel production to be relabelled as e-fuels on the basis that green hydrogen is used in its processes. According to the letter, authoring companies wish to “express [their] concern regarding the ongoing pressure to allow electrolytic...
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Twelve has secured a credit facility of up to $45 million (€38.7 million), led by Endurance Capital and Nomura as Joint Bookrunner. AirPlant One construction facility, based in Moses Lake, MA, US, was refinanced as part of the credit facility, with proceeds supporting additional expansion at the plant for Twelve’s first commercial e-Jet production facility. AirPlant One uses...
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Axens and Wison Engineering have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and electro-SAF (e-SAF). The partnership will combine Axens’ process technology and expertise, and Wison Engineering’s global supply chain integration and project execution. According to Axens’ press release, “the collaboration will support selected SAF project...
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MB Energy and Metafuels will collaborate on bringing certified electro-sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) from production to the wing. The agreement was signed at the opening of Metafuels’ demonstration plant in Switzerland. The collaboration will span market access, blending, infrastructure and logistics, which will also include certification and information flow. Both companies are also...
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Zero Petroleum has developed a 100% replica of Jet A-1, kerosene that is used to power commercial and military aviation. The synthetic sustainable aviation fuel, or e-SAF, was created using Zero’s Direct FT process, which utilises CO2 and green hydrogen, at its Plant Zero.1 site near Oxford, UK. Analysis was conducted by Intertek, with support coming from the UK SAF Clearing House and...
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Arcadia eFuels and MB Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for commercial and operational electro-synthetic aviation fuels (e-SAF) collaboration. Along with enport, Arcadia eFuels and MB Energy have created an end-to-end supply chain for e-SAF that will support the decarbonisation of the aviation industry in Europe. MB Energy will act as offtake and distribution partner for...
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has increased its debt financing mandate from €230 million to €680 million for Nordic Ren-Gas’ decentralised e-methane project portfolio in Finland. Notably, the increase will be used to support Ren-Gas’ Tampere project, which is due to start construction at the end of 2026. It is one of six production plants that have been designed with local energy...
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Italian engineering group Saipem has been awarded a pre-Front-End Engineering Design (pre-FEED) contract by renewable fuel producer Synhelion AG. Under the agreement, Saipem will develop the technical framework for a commercial-scale synthetic fuel facility located at RWE’s Chemiepark Knapsack industrial site in Hürth, Germany. The planned plant is designed to produce approximately 30,000...
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ABO Energy and the City of Oulu have signed a cooperation agreement to progress land-use planning, permitting, and zoning for a large-scale green hydrogen production facility in northern Finland. The project builds on a site reservation secured in 2025 and covers a proposed 41-hectare area. The facility is planned to scale up to 600 MW of electrolysis capacity across two to three phases. In...
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Uniper has awarded FEED contracts totalling over SEK 100 million (EUR 9 million) to AFRY, Carbon Clean, Siemens Energy, and Topsoe for its NorthStarH2 e-methanol project in Östersund, Sweden. The year-long basic engineering phase will establish the technical layout for the facility, which aims to produce 115,000 tonnes of e-methanol annually from renewable electricity and biogenic carbon...
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