Todays Latest Updates: 19 August 2026

Biojet/SAF: Australia. MAIRE’s Nextchem has secured a technology and engineering contract for Project Lion, a sustainable fuels facility planned in Queensland’s Burdekin region. Through its subsidiary MyRechemical, Nextchem will provide the licence, Process Design Package and engineering.  The project will collect locally available sugarcane tops and trash, which are often burned in fields, and convert them into purified syngas using Nextchem’s NX Circular Gasification technology. The syngas will then be converted into SAF and renewable diesel using technologies provided by third parties. At full capacity, Project Lion could produce up to 125,000 tonnes of SAF each year. Link 19/08/2026.

e-fuels: Switzerland Swiss liquefied natural gas (LNG) operator Avanca is buying up more green hydrogen-based e-methane after signing a new 10-year offtake agreement covering the full capacity of an operational 20MW facility in Finland. The contract will see Avanca’s LNG refuelling subsidiary Alternoil receiving deliveries of e-methane from P2X Solutions’ plant in Harjavalta, which started operations in February 2025. Link 19/08/2026.

Ethanol: India. India’s ethanol program surpassed 8 billion liters of cumulative supplies during Ethanol Supply Year 2025-26, according to the All India Distillers’ Association. July deliveries totalled about 930 million liters, with grain-based ethanol accounting for 710 million liters, or 76% of monthly supply, up from 73% in June. Maize and surplus Food Corporation of India grains each contributed about 300 million liters, together representing nearly 85% of grain-based supplies. Link 19/08/2026.

Marine fuels: China. Shanghai Port completed China’s first simultaneous anchorage bunkering of two international containerships with LNG and biomethanol. From Aug. 15-16, the CMA CGM Osmium received 8,016 metric tons of biomethanol, while Kota Elan took 5,038 cubic meters of LNG at Lvhuashan South Anchorage. Authorities described the biomethanol delivery as a world record for a single methanol bunkering operation. Link 19/08/2026