Shell Aviation and World Energy announce agreement on sustainable aviation fuel supply
Type of post: NEWS.
Shell Aviation
and World Energy have announced an
agreement to develop a scalable supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Such
agreement is intended to be a multi-year collaboration, with both companies
acknowledging that the path to lower carbon emissions in aviation requires
long-term commitment and collaboration.
Press release: “Shell Aviation and World Energy
collaborate to increase supply of sustainable aviation fuel”, 7/1/2020.
Figure 1. Shell Aviation and World Energy
initiate supply of sustainable aviation fuel with Lufthansa Group at San
Francisco Airport (extracted from the press release)
As part of the collaboration, both companies have
initiated the supply of SAF to Lufthansa Group at San Francisco International
Airport (SFO). The supply will reduce Lufthansa’s carbon emissions on
intercontinental flights on three routes operated by Deutsche Lufthansa and
Swiss International Air Lines from SFO to Frankfurt, Munich and Zurich. The
deal represents one of the most significant SAF supply contracts globally (up
to one million gallons of SAF). The fuel meets strict sustainability standards
and is blended with conventional jet fuel at a ratio of up to 30%, resulting in
a fuel that has significantly lower lifecycle carbon emissions.
The SAF is produced by World Energy at its HVO
biorefinery in Paramount (California). AltAir Fuels revamped portions of a
petroleum refinery in Paramount through the EcofiningTM process developed
by Honeywell UOP and commissioned the facility in 2016 (“Commercial-scale
biorefinery starts to produce renewable fuels with Honeywell UOP Technology in
California”, 12/3/2016). Two years later, World Energy announced that it had
closed on the purchase from Delek US Holdings of its interests in AltAir, the Paramount
Petroleum assets, an adjacent tank farm and most of Delek’s California pipeline
assets.
