Oil giant targets second-generation biofuels

With the increase of environmental pressure, the adjustment of government policies and the declining global oil resources available for exploitation, the oil giants have begun to target biofuels. How to cultivate the future profitability under the current profitability has become the focus of the oil giants. After decades of development, biofuels have come to the fore in environmental protection, reproducibility, and economics in the many solutions to the growing human and environmental crises. In addition to continuing to increase investment in traditional oil exploration and development, the world's major oil giants have turned their attention to the scale of bio-fuel production, cultivation of bio-fuel market, and research and development of a new generation of bio-fuels.

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“In the past, oil companies had no real investment in the production of biofuels,” said Aaron Brady of Cambridge Energy Consulting. “They are changing their minds and are convinced that biofuels will be universally accepted as a trend.”

There is an increasing number of oil companies that are keen on the development of biofuels. ChevronTexaco has invested in the construction of one of the first large-scale biodiesel production plants in the United States. Marathon Oil Company is the first oil company in the United States to invest in ethanol production in 30 years. Shell Petroleum Company is committed to the realization of cellulosic ethanol production. Marketization.

The major investors in the biofuels market in recent years have been relatively small companies and farm cooperatives, and their largest production plants are much smaller than the smallest oil refineries owned by the oil giants. In fact, ChevronTexaco is collaborating with Galveston Bay Biodiesel to build a biodiesel production facility that is based on soybeans and other renewable resources and that can produce up to 100 million gallons per year ( 1 gallon is equal to 3.785 liters, which is more than double the total amount of biodiesel produced in the United States last year.

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Oil companies turned to biofuels and were driven by high oil prices. They were also supported by the government's related energy policies and welcomed by the public. The U.S. Congress passed an energy bill last year, which stipulated that by 2012, the proportion of ethanol in the gasoline market will increase from the current 3% to 5% to 7.5 billion gallons. The EU hopes that by 2010, the proportion of biofuels can be increased to 5.8% of total fuel consumption.

Many countries have developed biofuel development plans and use different renewable raw materials to produce biofuels. In Brazil, ethanol fuel produced from sucrose has been widely used. The energy law introduced in the Philippines stipulates that coconut oil is added to diesel fuel. U.S. adds ethanol produced from corn to gasoline, adds soybean oil to diesel oil, and uses rapeseed in Europe. oil.

"The advantage of these additives is that they come from different raw materials," said Sergio Trindad, head of science and technology at International Fuels Technologies. "These raw materials can be grown all over the world."

Although the increase in the supply of biofuels will expand the supply channels for the fuel market, the use of biofuels will reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global climate change, but the development of the use of biofuels faces a real challenge: how to achieve the reality under the limited conditions of limited production of food crops Large-scale production of biofuels and guaranteed yields. Compared with the use of food crop raw materials to produce ethanol, the use of cellulose in plant wastes to produce ethanol is significantly more efficient and effective than the former.
Robin West, chairman of PFC Energy Consulting's board of directors, said that taking into account the sustainable development of the energy industry, it will take time to solve this problem.

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In response, oil giants have expressed that they do not have the short-term benefits of investing in first-generation biofuel production, and they would rather spend more time building a sustainable and efficient biofuels market.

ExxonMobil's Duff Gardner said: "Biofuels have an important role to play in meeting U.S. energy needs. However, biofuels must eventually overcome obvious technical challenges in order to be able to tilt without subsidies and government policies. In the case of competition with the current fossil fuels."

In order to achieve this goal, major oil companies are committed to the next generation of biofuel research. ExxonMobil has increased funding for biofuels research projects, and BP is working with DuPont to develop "next generation biofuels."

At the same time, Shell Petroleum cooperated with several companies to start research on new biofuels. Shell Petroleum worked with Logan Corporation to develop cellulosic ethanol production and collaborated with Cologne to develop advanced biological components for diesel engines.

Speaking of many oil companies working to develop second-generation biofuels, Donald Paul, vice president and chief technology officer of ChevronTexaco, the second largest oil company in the United States, stated that “this is a new stage” and the ultimate goal is to establish “ Large-scale infrastructure."

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