The Phillipine government announced an additional 10% duty on crude petroleum oil and refined petroleum products to raise funds for its coronavirus response efforts. The modification of import duties on crude petroleum oil and refined petroleum products is contained in Executive Order No. 113. The executive order comes at a time when global crude oil […]

The Worldwide Fuel Charter (WWFC) Committee, on behalf of automobile and engine manufacturers from around the world, has released the 2019 edition of the Worldwide Fuel Charter for Gasoline and Diesel Fuel, 21 years after publishing the first edition. This sixth edition of the WWFC updates the previous edition in several ways and presents each […]

Korean researchers have presented a new strategy for efficiently producing fatty acids and biofuels that can transform glucose and oleaginous microorganisms into microbial diesel fuel, with one-step direct fermentative production.  The newly developed strain, created by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee and his team, showed the highest efficiency in producing fatty acids and biodiesels ever […]

A proposed ASTM International standard aims to offer a new way to determine biodiesel content in diesel fuel oil. The standard (WK55232) is being developed by the organization’s committee on petroleum products, liquid fuels, and lubricants (D02). It focuses on the use of portable, rapid, mid-infrared analyzers. ASTM International member Ian Mylrea, research and development manager at […]

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), together with six other government agencies, announced the nationwide implementation of China VIA motor gasoline (including E10) and China VI diesel fuel (including B5), effective 1 January 2019. The other six agencies are the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Commerce, […]

ExxonMobil has started operations of a new unit at its Antwerp refinery in Belgium to convert heavy, higher-sulphur residual oils into high-value transportation fuels such as marine gasoil and diesel fuel. The new 50,000 barrel-per-day unit expands the refinery’s capacity to meet demand for cleaner transportation fuels throughout northwest Europe. The company’s investment in the […]

Chinese state-owned oil company Sinopec Corp. will start producing gasoline and diesel fuel that comply with China VI fuel standards from its 28 refineries starting January 2019. China VI-compliant gasoline and diesel fuels have a maximum sulphur limit of 10 parts per million (ppm). China VI emission standards for new heavy-duty vehicles is expected to […]

ExxonMobil has commenced initial preparatory work to expand its Beaumont, Texas, oil refinery, according to Reuters. Construction of a new crude processing unit is expected to begin next year after a final investment decision is made. The proposed unit, which would convert crude oil from Texas shale fields into refined products, including diesel fuel and […]

The Malaysian government has decided to again postpone the implementation of Euro 4M, this time to 1 January 2020. The Malaysian modified Euro 4 fuel specification dubbed “Euro 4M” would reduce the maximum allowable sulphur content in petrol (gasoline) and diesel fuel from the current standard of 500 parts per million (ppm) to 50 ppm. […]

Enerkem Inc., a world-leading waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer, announced that it has successfully produced a clean, renewable bio-dimethyl ether (Bio-DME), a by-product of biomethanol, that could help address global climate change efficiently by replacing the use of diesel fuel in the transportation sector. Using the company’s proprietary thermochemical technology, its innovation group has tested and […]