Asia-based biofuels company EcoCeres has secured 100,000m³ of storage capacity for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) at Dialog Terminals Langsat (DTL3)’s facility in Malaysia.
The agreement followed EcoCeres’ announcement of a significant investment in a new production facility in Pasir Gudang, Johor Darul Ta’zim, Malaysia, DTL3’s parent company DIALOG said on 29 July.
EcoCeres’ new biorefinery was expected to be operational in the second half of 2025 while the storage expansion at the terminal was due for completion in the first quarter of 2027, DIALOG said.
In an earlier report on 22 April, EcoCeres chief commercial officer Jeremy Baines said the unit would have a total capacity of 350,000 tonnes/year of biofuels, comprising 220,000 tonnes/year of SAF and 130,000 tonnes/year of HVO.
Located less than 1km from DTL3, the new biorefinery would be directly connected to DTL3’s storage tanks via rundown pipelines.
DIALOG said the remaining 50,000m³ of storage capacity at the terminal in Tanjung Langsat, Johor Darul Ta’zim, was expected to be leased to third party customers such as multinational companies and trading houses.
Inclusive of the 24,000m³ under construction, DTL3 would have a total storage capacity of approximately 230,000m³ for short to medium term energy traders and multinational companies storing energy products.
DTL3 is located next to two other terminals – DIALOG Terminals Langsat 1 and DIALOG Terminals Langsat 2.
Following the expansion at DTL3, the combined storage capacity of DTL1, DTL2 and DTL3 would exceed 1M m³, the company said.
DIALOG is an integrated technical service provider to the energy sector in Malaysia and internationally.
Hong Kong-based EcoCeres processed biomass wastes into biofuels and biopolymers, its website said. In addition to producing HVO and SAF at commercial scale, the company produced cellulosic ethanol.
