Factbox – Asia sustainable aviation gasoline tasks and agreements – Reuters.
Singapore plans to require all flights departing the nation to make use of sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF) beginning in 2026, its transport minister stated, because the city-state joins the worldwide aviation {industry}’s efforts to change to greener gasoline.
SAF, or various gasoline made out of renewable sources which might be used to energy plane, is essential for the aviation sector to achieve its purpose of internet zero carbon emissions by 2050, however its adoption stays in a nascent section.
Following is a take a look at different SAF tasks and agreements within the Asia-Pacific area.
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MALAYSIA
Malaysia has established an SAF mixing mandate beginning with 1%, in line with the Nationwide Power Transition Roadmap printed by the federal government in 2023. It’s targetting a 47% SAF mixing mandate by 2050.
Malaysian state oil firm Petronas and Japan’s second-biggest oil refiner, Idemitsu Kosan Co, signed a preliminary settlement to collaborate on growth and distribution of SAF in October 2023.
Petronas and Malaysia’s palm oil board have additionally signed an settlement to check the usage of cooking oil and palm oil waste as SAF in August 2023.
Malaysian Aviation Group (MAG) has signed an SAF offtake settlement with Petronas Dagangan, as a part of efforts to develop the inexperienced gasoline on a business scale in Malaysia in Might 2023.
INDIA
India goals to have 1% SAF in plane turbine gasoline by 2027, doubling to 2% in 2028, the federal government stated in November. The SAF targets will initially apply to worldwide flights.
Indian Oil Corp will arrange an 80,000-metric-ton per 12 months SAF plant with LanzaJet in Haryana, the refiner’s chairman stated final 12 months. The corporate has a tie-up with LanzaTech for changing waste gasoline to ethanol and into jet gasoline.
SINGAPORE
Singapore introduced on Feb. 19 it will purpose for a 1% SAF goal beginning in 2026 and plans to lift it to 3-5% by 2030, topic to world developments and the broader availability and adoption of SAF.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) plans to introduce a SAF levy for the acquisition of the gasoline to be set at a hard and fast quantum, based mostly on the SAF goal and projected SAF worth at the moment.
Singapore Airways, The Civil Authority of Singapore, and Genzero accomplished a 20-month SAF pilot in November, and located that though Singapore is operationally prepared to produce SAF, extra is required to assist its adoption.
Keppel Company Restricted and AM Inexperienced have signed a memorandum of understanding in December to discover alternatives to supply biogenic carbon-based sustainable fuels, together with SAF.
Singapore Airways started a one-year SAF pilot programme in July 2022, working with ExxonMobil and Neste. The businesses blended 1,000 tonnes of neat SAF with jet gasoline and provided the oil to Singapore Airways and Scoot flights at Changi Airport.
Finnish refiner Neste operates town state’s solely SAF plant.
CHINA
There isn’t any set SAF mandate in China as of February 2024, though its civil aviation administration stated in its 2022 roadmap that carbon emissions within the sector will peak by 2035.
China’s Nationwide Power Administration introduced in November 2023 that it will launch pilot tasks to spur home manufacturing and consumption of biofuels, together with SAF and biodiesel. It didn’t present particulars on funding and timing.
In December 2023, China’s State Energy Funding Corp introduced a plan to supply 400,000 tons per 12 months of SAF in northern Heilongjiang province. The plant will begin as a pilot venture of 10,000 tons per 12 months, the corporate stated. It’s slated to supply its first batch of gasoline in late 2025 and can broaden to 400,000 by 2030, in line with an govt conversant in the plans.
In April 2023, Airbus and the China Nationwide Aviation Gas Group (CNAF) signed a memorandum of understanding to extend manufacturing and use of SAF. U.S. industrial conglomerate Honeywell has signed agreements to collectively produce SAF with northern China’s Tianjian Free Commerce Zone in 2023 and with southern Guangdong-based Oriental Power Firm Ltd. in 2022, in line with Honeywell and state-run CGTN. The Guangdong facility will produce 1 million tons per 12 months of SAF, Honeywell stated, with out mentioning a timeline.
Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways set a goal in March 2023 to make use of SAF for 10% of its gasoline by 2030.
In October 2022, an A320neo Airbus plane departed from Tianjin and landed in Xian utilizing a 5% SAF mix, with SAF produced regionally by Sinopec subsidiary Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Co (Zhenhai Refining), China Each day reported. In July 2023, an Air China flight from Hangzhou to Beijing marked China’s first use of SAF in a business flight, utilizing a ten% SAF mix, in line with CGTN.
JAPAN
Japan is mandating that 10% of aviation gasoline for worldwide flights utilizing Japanese airports be sustainable beginning in 2030, the Ministry of Economic system, Commerce, and Business stated in Might 2023.
Nippon Paper Industries Corp, Sumitomo Corp and Inexperienced Earth Institute Corp agreed in February 2023 to collectively research bioethanol manufacturing made out of woody biomass. The venture, if it succeeds, goals to supply bioethanol from Nippon Paper’s mills within the 2027 fiscal 12 months for use as feedstock for SAF manufacturing.
Fuji Oil Co Ltd started planning manufacturing of bio-SAF at Sodegaura Refinery with Itochu Corp in Might 2023.
Eneos Holdings Inc agreed to check manufacturing of as much as 500 million litres (3.1 million barrels) of SAF and renewable diesel per 12 months collectively with Australian refiner Ampol.
Japan’s high airways, All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airways (JAL), have expanded their SAF purchases by including provides from buying and selling home Itochu Corp and U.S. producer Raven SR.
Different corporations exploring SAF manufacturing in Japan embody Mitsubishi Corp, Boeing, and TotalEnergies SE.
SAF is about to interchange 10%, or 1.34 million kilolitres, of gasoline utilized by Japanese airline corporations by 2030, in line with the Japan Transport and Tourism Analysis Institute (JTTRI).
PHILIPPINES
There isn’t any set SAF mandate within the Philippines as of February 2024.
Cebu Pacific flew a aircraft from Singapore to Manila powered by a 35% SAF mix from Neste in September 2022.
The airline signed a long-term strategic partnership with Shell Japanese Petroleum to make SAF extra broadly accessible for its fleet through the provision and buy of SAF in Asia Pacific and the Center East, with an preliminary quantity of a minimum of 25,000 metric tons per 12 months.
AUSTRALIA
There isn’t any set SAF mandate in Australia as of February 2024.
Qantas Group launched the Sustainable Aviation Gas Coalition (SAF Coalition) in collaboration with Australia Publish, KPMG Australia, Macquarie Group, the native arm of Boston Consulting Group and Woodside Power on Nov. 11, 2022.
Qantas and Airbus SE will collectively make investments A$2 million ($1.34 million) in a biofuel refinery being arrange in Australia’s Queensland state that will convert agricultural by-products into SAF.
The refinery is anticipated to supply as much as 100 million litres of SAF a 12 months, with development on account of begin in 2024.
That is the primary funding from a $200 million fund Qantas and Airbus arrange final June to kick off the SAF {industry} in Australia.
The airline expects about 10% of its gasoline to return from SAF by 2030, and 60% by 2050.
Final November, Local weather Leaders Coalition members Ampol, Brisbane Airport, Deloitte, Qantas and Viva Power proposed the institution of an East Coast SAF hall of their Scope 3 Roadmap.
Australia’s first Jet Zero-style council, modelled on the eponymous government-industry partnership for SAF manufacturing in Britain, is anticipated to carry its first assembly this monetary 12 months ending in June 2023, stated a spokesperson from the Division of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Growth, Communications and the Arts.
The council will complement the Aviation White Paper, which is anticipated to wrap up early 2024.
NEW ZEALAND
There isn’t any set SAF mandate in New Zealand as of February 2024.
Channel Infrastructure NZ Ltd’s scoping research for inexperienced hydrogen and artificial sustainable aviation gasoline manufacturing at Marsden Level is transferring to the pre-feasibility section, supported by the federal government’s Power Effectivity and Conservation Authority.
Air New Zealand and the New Zealand authorities plan to take a position greater than 2 million New Zealand {Dollars} ($1.23 million) in SAF research, with the second stage of SAF feasibility work persevering with via to early 2024.
Factbox-Asia’s sustainable aviation gasoline tasks and agreements, February 19, 2024
