ETBE-blended gasoline to be available next year in Japan

November 1, 2006

Japanese refiners will start selling ETBE-blended regular gasoline at 50 retail stations in Tokyo and adjacent prefectures from the summer of 2007 as a pilot project ahead of plans to adopt ethanol-blended gasoline in 2010-2011, an official at the Petroleum Association of Japan said. Japanese refiners are considering importing ETBE, likely from Europe, before the end of knowledge_base year. ETBE is produced by mixing ethanol and isobutylene, but it eliminates many of the historical impediments to the greater use of ethanol such as increased volatility of gasoline. (September 13, 2006)

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