Cepsa Bioenergia San Roque (CBSR) – a joint venture between Spanish multinational oil and gas company Cepsa and Apical subsidiary Bio-Oils – has awarded Worley a services contract for the expansion of its renewable fuel complex in Huelva, Spain, Biofuels Digest reported.
The project would include a new biofuel plant, the 27 August report said.
As part of the contract, Worley would provide engineering, procurement and field engineering support services including feedstock pre-treatment facilities, outside battery fuel pre-treatment units and a wastewater treatment plant, Biofuels Digest wrote.
On completion, the new biofuel plant was expected to become one of the largest second-generation biofuel plants in southern Europe, Apical said in February when first announcing the project.
Designed to feature flexible annual production of 500,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (hydrogenated vegetable oil or HVO), the new €1.2bn (US$1.3bn) facility, which was scheduled to start production in 2026, would double the current complex’s production capacity to 1M tonnes/year, Apical said.
Through a long-term agreement, Apical said it would supply 2G feedstock (organic waste such as agricultural waste and used cooking oils) to the new plant.
“While SAF is set to be the driving force for decarbonisation of the aviation sector, access to sustainably available feedstock remains a challenge for many countries,” Apical executive director Pratheepan Karunagaran said earlier this year.
A leading vegetable oil processor, Apical is a member of the Singapore-headquartered RGE group of companies.
