Totalenergies – SATORP completes MENA area’s first conversion of used cooking oil into ISCC+ licensed sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF).
SATORP, platform collectively owned by Aramco (62,5 %) and TotalEnergies (37,5 %), has for the primary time within the area efficiently transformed used cooking oil by means of coprocessing into ISCC+ licensed Sustainable Aviation Gasoline (SAF).
Final August, the platform efficiently co-processed Used Cooking Oil within the Low-Stress Hydrodesulphurization Unit (LPHDS), producing SAF, assembly all product high quality parameters throughout the SAF specs. TotalEnergies contributed because of its expertise and experience to this realization.
SATORP has obtained Worldwide Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC+) to provide SAF. With this certification, the platform will be capable of reply the anticipated rise in SAF demand within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The sustainable aviation fuels produced from UCO reduces CO2 emissions by not less than 80% on common over your entire lifecycle, in contrast with their fossil equal.
With this success, TotalEnergies by means of its platform positioned in Jubail retains creating its portfolio of round merchandise. SATORP has beforehand introduced changing oil derived from plastic waste into ISCC+ licensed round polymers.
Francois Good, Senior Vice President, Refining and Petrochemicals Africa Center East and Asia at TotalEnergies stated:
This mission at SATORP is a part of TotalEnergies’ intention to provide 1.5 million tons/y of SAF by 2030.
“Sustainable aviation gasoline is important to decreasing the CO2 emissions of air transport, and its growth is absolutely aligned with the Firm’s local weather ambition to get to web zero by 2050, along with society”
About SATORP
The Saudi Aramco TotalEnergies Refining and Petrochemical Firm (SATORP), the primary such three way partnership between the 2 power corporations, was established in June 2008 to construct a refining and petrochemical complicated in Jubail II industrial metropolis. The refinery, whose capability elevated from 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil at its start-up in 2014 to 460,000 bpd immediately, is acknowledged as probably the most environment friendly on this planet.
TotalEnergies: SATORP Completes MENA Area’s First Conversion of Used Cooking Oil into ISCC+ Licensed Sustainable Aviation Gasoline (SAF), October 30, 2023
