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Russia to Build First Major Ethanol Plant

21 April 2006

Russia, the world’s second-largest oil producer and exporter, will start building its first major ethanol plant in 2007, according to a regional official speaking at Russia’s first Fuel Bioethanol conference in Moscow.

The US$200-250 million plant will produce 300,000 tonnes of fuel ethanol a year (about 380 million liters, or 100 million gallons US) for export to the European Union. The plant will be placed in the Volgograd region, one of Russia’s biggest grain-growing areas.

The plant will consumer more than 900,000 tonnes a year of feed wheat, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, which acts as financial consultant to the project. About 40% of the investment required for the plant would be supplied by a consortium of at least three local companies. The rest will be borrowed.

The conference was organized by the Russian Biofuel Association and Genencor International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Danisco.

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Of course, 100 proof Vodka!! Why else would you wanna produce ethanol when you are exporting oil and gas for large profits given escalating prices of oil and gas lately?

Posted by: Roger Pham | Apr 24, 2006 5:28:13 PM

Possible need for fuel will decrease. See Pat. RU 2296233 (refer to http://www.fips.ru/rupatimage/0/2000000/2200000/2290000/2296000/2296233.pdf
or http://myinventions.narod.ru/)

Posted by: Sergei Lokhotkin | Apr 28, 2007 5:55:16 AM

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