Ethanol Week - May 7, 2012

Refiners worry lack of E15 stations will cause RFS non-compliance The American Petroleum Institute continues to stress the potential for compatibility issues between retail station infrastructure and E15 and says refiners could face RFS non-compliance fines if issues aren't resolved. READ MORE SHARE
Peru oil producer, Maple Energy, brings ethanol plant online Peru oil producer and refiner, Maple Energy, is now also an ethanol producer, beginning production at its 35 MMgy ethanol plant in April. The $275 million sugarcane-ethanol project includes a 7,000 hectare (11,000 acre) drip-irrigated plantation. READ MORE SHARE
	Study finds RFS likely to require modification Persistently lagging sugarcane ethanol production in Brazil could make it very expensive for obligated parties to meet biofuels volume requirements in the U.S. as early as this year, according to energy consulting firm Hart Energy. READ MORE SHARE
ADM reports reduced Q3 earnings, points to weak ethanol market Archer Daniels Midland Co.'s third quarter financial results showed net earnings of $399 million, a 31 percent decrease from the same time period last year. READ MORE SHARE
Industry execs stress importance of RFS Executives from BP Biofuels, Novozymes, and DuPont Industrial Biosciences held a conference call May 1 to reiterate the importance of the renewable fuel standard to the developing cellulosic biofuel industry. READ MORE SHARE
Iogen, Shell announce layoffs, won't build cellulosic plant An April 30 Shell and Iogen announcement revealed that 150 employees were laid off at Iogen's headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, and a Shell-led proposed project to build a 10 MMgy cellulosic ethanol plant in Manitoba has been suspended. READ MORE SHARE
Iowa ethanol plants signal intent to produce butanol Less a month after inking a deal with Fagen Inc. to serve as the EPC firm for butanol production facilities, two more ethanol plants have joined butanol technology developer Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC's Early Adopters Group. READ MORE SHARE
NDSU professor, ethanol expert dies in farm accident Cole Gustafson was killed April 28 in a farm accident on his family's farm in Minnesota. He was an NDSU professor who was working with Green Vision Group on a project to build multiple 20 MMgy dedicated energy beet-to-ethanol plants in North Dakota. READ MORE SHARE
Enerkem abandons IPO effort, points to 'better options' Despite interest from "key potential investors," Enerkem Inc. won't proceed with an IPO, but the company, with the support of its current investors and partners, is still planning to move forward with several MSW-to-biofuels commercial projects. READ MORE SHARE
Fagen to build DuPont’s first commercial-scale cellulosic plant DuPont Industrial Biosciences has selected Fagen Inc. to build its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant, a 28 MMgy corn stover-fed facility to be located adjacent to Lincolnway Energy LLC in Nevada, Iowa. READ MORE SHARE