Emirates and Shell Aviation signal settlement for Sustainable Aviation Gas provide at airline’s Dubai hub.
Emirates has introduced an settlement with Shell Aviation for the availability of over 300,000 gallons of blended SAF to be used on the airline’s worldwide hub in Dubai (DXB). The primary SAF supply beneath the settlement is predicted to start earlier than the tip of the 12 months, making it the primary time that SAF is equipped by way of the DXB airport fuelling system.
The settlement is the most recent step ahead taken by Emirates as a part of its environmental technique that focuses on three areas: emissions discount, accountable consumption, and the conservation of wildlife and habitats.
As a part of the settlement, Emirates will monitor SAF supply and its use knowledge by way of Avelia, one of many world’s first blockchain powered SAF options. Avelia is powered by Shell Aviation and Accenture, with assist from Vitality Net along with American Specific International enterprise journey.
Via Avelia, Emirates will buy the bodily SAF and related environmental attributes to assist decarbonise its Scope 1 associated emissions, whereas Scope 3 environmental attributes related to the identical bodily SAF might be bought by Shell Company Journey to assist decarbonise its associated enterprise journey.
By utilizing Avelia, the settlement demonstrates how e-book and declare options can allow airways and corporates to each share the environmental advantages of SAF.
Sir Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline mentioned:
We’re proud to work in partnership with Shell to make a SAF provide accessible for Emirates in Dubai for the primary time, and to utilise the Avelia platform that gives enterprise travellers the pliability to align their sustainability targets and cut back their environmental footprint when travelling.
“We hope that this collaboration develops additional to supply an ongoing future provide of SAF in our hub, as there are at the moment no manufacturing amenities for SAF within the UAE. Aviation performs a significant position in Dubai and the broader UAE financial system, and we sit up for proceed collaborating with like-minded organisations and authorities entities to have a look at viable options that introduce extra SAF, a gas that’s at the moment extraordinarily restricted in provide, into the aviation gas provide chain and assist Emirates’ efforts to scale back emissions throughout our operations.”
Chu Yong-Yi, Vice President of Shell Company Journey mentioned:
Emirates and Shell have a long-standing industrial relationship, and it’s implausible to construct on this to now work collectively on decarbonisation.
“This settlement marks a step ahead for the aviation business within the UAE. Enabling SAF to be equipped at DXB for the primary time is a vital milestone, and an ideal instance of how the completely different elements of the aviation worth chain have a task to play in unlocking progress on SAF. We hope that this could act as a springboard for extra motion on SAF throughout the aviation business within the UAE and area, delivering one other step ahead for our web zero emissions journey.”
As a protected and absolutely licensed drop-in gas suitable with current plane fleet and airport infrastructure, SAF could be blended with typical jet gas at a ratio of as much as 50%, creating an aviation gas that’s considerably decrease in lifecycle carbon emissions. In its neat kind, SAF can cut back lifecycle emissions by as much as 80% in comparison with typical jet gas.1
Earlier this 12 months, Emirates efficiently accomplished the primary 100% SAF-powered demonstration flight within the area. The airline’s first flight powered by SAF blended with jet gas came about in 2017, working from Chicago on a Boeing 777. The airline has additionally uplifted SAF for flights from Stockholm, and at the moment operates flights from Paris, Lyon and Oslo with blended SAF.
Emirates participates in a spread of business and UAE authorities working teams, together with ongoing stakeholder engagements to assist scale the manufacturing and provide of SAF. Final 12 months, along with the UAE GCAA, the airline contributed to the event of the UAE’s Energy-to-Liquid (PtL) fuels roadmap, pushed by the UAE Ministry of Vitality and Infrastructure and the World Financial Discussion board, and has been an lively participant within the UAE’s Nationwide Sustainable Aviation Gas Roadmap launched in January 2023 by the Ministry of Vitality and Infrastructure and GCAA.
Emirates and Shell Aviation signal settlement for SAF provide at airline’s Dubai hub, Dubai, October 2, 2023
