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First Australian Export of Biodiesel Leaves Port

3 August 2007

Drive. Australia’s first export shipment of biodiesel has been loaded on a freighter in Darwin and is bound for Asia and the US.

Natural Fuels Australia produced the inaugural shipment of 8.8 million liters of palm oil biodiesel. The Darwin plant has a capacity of 138 million liters (36.5 million gallons US).

Natural Fuel has also commenced construction of three biodiesel plants on Jurong Island in Singapore, with a total nameplate capacity of 680 million liters per year (180 million gallons US) and has approved the construction of a 200,000 tonnes (60.4 million gallons US) per year plant in Houston, Texas.

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Seems like alot of burnt diesel to get it here. What, praytell, are they going to export on the freighter when it gets here?

Posted by: fred | August 05, 2007 at 09:37 AM

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