Todays Global Intelligence: 30 October 2026

Biodiesel: Argentina. Bichos del Campo reports the increase in the international price of diesel, markedly improved the competitiveness of soybean oil in the Argentine market. In October, the import parity value of low-sulfur diesel in Uruguay – placed in distribution plant – is at a price equivalent to 2026 Argentine pesos per liter, according to data from the Regulatory Unit of Energy and Water Services of Uruguay (Ursea). Meanwhile, the official price of biodiesel in Argentina — determined by the Energy Secretariat for compulsory oil cutting — is at 1788 pesos per litre (biodiesel plant exit price). Although the price of Argentine biodiesel is necessary to add the cost of the freight to the refinery, which varies according to the supplier, even when adding that component remains much lower than the value of the imported diesel. Link 30/10/2026.

Biojet/SAF: Singapore. Singapore Airlines (SIA) has signed an agreement to purchase up to 4,800 tons of next-generation sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Aether Beacon Pte Ltd. (Aether) over three years, with deliveries commencing in 2028. SIA is the first airline to purchase SAF produced at Project Beacon, Aether’s commercial production facility, which is being developed at Aster’s refining complex on Pulau Bukom in Singapore. The agreement marks SIA’s first purchase of SAF produced using new technology that converts waste carbon feedstocks into aviation fuel. Link 30/10/2026.

Biojet/SAF: USA. CarbonCore Inc. has advanced plans for its GeorgiaSAF™ programme, confirming Bainbridge and Decatur County as the focus of development for a proposed commercial‑scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility in Southwest Georgia. The project aims to convert sustainably sourced woody biomass into aviation fuel for the Southeast and wider US market, creating a new long‑term industrial outlet for Georgia’s forestry sector. The company is progressing site assembly, infrastructure planning, rail access, utilities and technical diligence with local and regional partners. Link 30/10/2026.

Ethanol: USA. RoughRider Energy is developing a large corn-ethanol plant near Glen Ullin, North Dakota, with planned annual production of 240 million gallons. The project is expected to consume approximately 84 million bushels of corn annually and generate coproducts including 660,000 tons of distillers grains and 95 million pounds of corn oil. The proposed facility will also include equipment to capture and compress fermentation CO₂ for transport to a planned geological storage site. Link 30/10/2026.

Feedstocks: United Kingdom. An economic analysis by Oxford Economics, representative polling of more than 8,000 consumers and in-depth farmer interviews across eight European markets, Europe’s crop output has grown more slowly than in major agricultural markets including the US, Brazil, China, Canada and India,the new study finds. Geopolitical and climate pressures are increasing risks for farmers while global peers gain faster access to new technologies, widening Europe’s resilience gap. Consumers support science-based innovation and want farmers to have access to technologies that help strengthen food security, resilience and affordability. The findings identify crop agriculture as a strategically important sector that underpins food security and contributes 246 billion euros to EU GDP and 5.7 billion euros to UK GDP, with every 1 billion euros of crop agriculture output supporting almost 3 billion euros of downstream production in other sectors. However, crop output growth in Europe has significantly lagged global peers between 2011 and 2023, averaging just 0.1 percent a year. In the UK, growth was even lower, at 0.0 percent. This compares with 1 percent in the US, a global average of 2 percent, and between 2 and 3 percent in China, Canada and India. Brazil was among the fastest-growing markets, with annual growth averaging 3.3 percent over the period. Link 30/10/2026.

Hydrogen: Canada. Denmark’s European Energy (EE) and Canadian solvent and biofuels producer Greenfield Global have unveiled plans to build a 48,000 tonne per year hydrogen-based e-methanol project in Quebec. The pair, which launched a joint venture to support the development, said early engineering studies are already complete and that offtake discussions are set to begin .Link. 30/10/2026