{"id":4596,"date":"2024-08-30T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2024\/08\/30\/huelva-to-double-its-biofuel-plant-capacity\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:11:39","slug":"huelva-to-double-its-biofuel-plant-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/huelva-to-double-its-biofuel-plant-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Huelva to double its biofuel plant capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cepsa and Apical state that, when completed, the new biofuel plant is expected to become one of the largest second-generation biofuel plants in southern Europe, supporting lower carbon aviation, maritime and land transportation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to work with the CBSR joint venture between Cepsa and Bio-Oils, on this large second-generation biofuel plant, which is consistent with our purpose of delivering a more sustainable world,\u201d said Chris Ashton, chief executive of Worley.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to begin operation in 2026, the new biofuel plant will have an annual production of 500,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel (hydrogenated vegetable oil), doubling the current complex\u2019s production capacity to 1 million tonnes per annum.<\/p>\n<p>Under the contract, Worley will provide engineering, procurement and field engineering support services including the feedstock pretreatment facilities, outside battery limit fuel pre-treatment units, and wastewater treatment plant.<\/p>\n<p>The Port of Huelva is a frontrunner in the transition to more sustainable fuels, positioning itself as one of Europe\u2019s key green methanol hubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cepsa Bioenergia San Roque (CBSR), a joint venture between Cepsa and Apical subsidiary, Bio-Oils, has awarded Worley a services contract for the expansion of CBSR\u2019s renewable fuel complex in Huelva, Spain, which will include a new biofuel plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34],"tags":[40,1756,1755,27,897,879,1754],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-europe-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-apical","tag-bio-oils","tag-biofuel","tag-cepsa","tag-green-methanol","tag-port-of-huelva"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4598,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions\/4598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}