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Oil Company to Explore Aviation Biofuel Production in the Netherlands

November 27, 2013
Press Release: http://www.nesteoil.com/default.asp?path=1;41;540;1259;1260;20492;22598

Finland-based Neste Oil Corporation has announced its commitment to a Dutch public-private sector initiative aimed at the deployment of sustainable biofuel in the aviation industry.

The signatories of the initiative include KLM, SkyNRG, Schiphol Airport, the Port of Rotterdam, the State Secretary of Infrastructure and the Environment, and the Minister of Economic Affairs. Neste Oil's role in the initiative is to explore the production opportunities for aviation biofuel and scaling up production.

Neste Oil's renewable fuel refinery in Rotterdam would potentially be the first site for producing renewable aviation fuel in the Netherlands. The company has already carried out trials on the commercial use of renewable aviation fuel based on its NExBTL technology, which can make very flexible use of a wide range of vegetable oil and waste-based raw materials.