DA Pushes Sorghum For Ethanol
PHILIPPINES - Agriculture Undersecretary Bernadette Romulo Puyat has urged the production of sweet sorghum, a high yielding bioethanol feedstock in Negros Occidental.

Uniting on a P6-billion Ethanol Project in Malaysia
PHILIPPINES - A P6-billion ethanol project is being formed as a collaboration between Basic Energy Corp., formerly Basic Petroleum Corp., and Metro Pacific Investments Corp.

Petron Buys Leyte Ethanol Products
PHILIPPINES - The Petron Corporation has bought 23,000 litres of ethanol from Leyte Agri Corp., the first locally-produced fuel grade ethanol, to be used in its E10 Premium gasolin...

Gov't Acquires Jathropa Expeller
PHILIPPINES - A set of equipment necessary to get oil from jatropha was recently acquired by the Philippine National Oil Company – Alternative Fuels Corportation (PNOC-AFC) to fast...

Zubiri: Jatropha Seeds as Biofuels Source
THE PHILIPPINES - With no end in sight to the skyrocketing of fuel prices, the national government is looking into alternative fuel sources to avert a looming economic catastrophe.

RHI and India-Based Firm to Build Ethanol Plant
THE PHILIPPINES - RHI's (Roxas Holdings Inc.) bioethanol branch, RBC (Roxol Bioenergy Corporation), plans to set up a P1-billion bioethanol plant in Negros Occidental with an India-based...

Jatropha R&D Being Intensified
THE PHILIPPINES - What with the need to hasten biofuel development because of the skyrocketing of prices, scientists from UP Los Baños are conducting rigorous gene conservation and...

1.2M hectares of Land Sought for Jatropha Production
MINDANAO - As part of the government's plan to lessen dependence on foreign fuel, the Philippine National Oil Company-Alternative Fuels Corp. (PNOC-AFC) is putting in efforts to encourage...

Philippine Government Bans Conversion of Agricultural Land to Other Uses
MANILA - The Philippines has taken measures to reduce the its reliance on imported oil, writes Karen Lema (Reuters).

Zubiri: Negros to be Biofuels Center
THE PHILIPPINES - Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri Saturday called on oil firms to moderate their greed amid the impending increase in oil prices to P60 a liter, as he stressed his plan to...

Zubiri: "Oil-Producing Countries Should Modify Their Greed"
THE PHILIPPINES - Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri yesterday assured the public that the Biofuels Act will protect the food security program of the government following calls for the suspension...

Biofuels World In Manila Sets Perspective On Regional Mandates and New Feedstocks -- Cassava, Sweet Sorghum, Jatropha
MANILA - BiofuelsWorld gives perspective of regional biofuels mandates from Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, India and China. Dramatically reshape Jatropha, Biomass, Algae-Lipids Biomass,...

Filipino Firm Looks for Biofuel Lands in Central Mindanao
SULTAN KUDARAT - The Philippines' Eastern Renewables Fuels Corp. is looking for more lands in Central Mindanao to cultivate cassava for biofuel use.

PNOC-AFC Continues Jatropha Development Plans for Iwahig
MANILA - The Philippine National Oil Company – Alternative Fuels Corporation (PNOC-AFC), the biofuels arm of state-owned PNOC, is planning on continuing the development of jatropha...

Bicol technology venture firm plans sorghum bio-ethanol project
THE PHILIPPINES - A technology venture firm, Tropics Agro Industries Inc. (TAII), has embarked on a five-hectare sweet sorghum planting in Bicol, aiming to produce bio-ethanol after...