The facility will double Cepsa and Bio-Oils’ current second-generation biofuel production capacity to one million tonnes.
Cepsa and Bio-Oils, Apical’s biofuels company, are starting construction of the largest second-generation (2G) biofuels plant in southern Europe. This facility, which will flexibly produce 500,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (HVO) annually, will enable the joint venture formed by the two companies to double its current production capacity. The new 2G biofuels plant, together with the facilities already operated by Cepsa and Bio-Oils in Huelva, will form the second largest renewable fuels complex in Europe, with a total production capacity of one million tonnes per year.
The new facility, scheduled to start up in 2026, will be built in Palos de la Frontera (Huelva), next to the La Rábida Energy Park. Its development involves an investment of 1.2 billion euros and the creation of 2,000 jobs, both direct and indirect, during the construction and operation phases.
The start of construction of this project was celebrated today at a ceremony attended by Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, President of the Junta de Andalucía, Teresa Ribera, Third Vice-President and Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Maarten Wetselaar, CEO of Cepsa, Anderson Tanoto, Managing Director of RGE, which manages a group of natural resource-based manufacturing companies, including Apical and Bio-Oils, and Pratheepan Karunagaran, Executive Director of Apical.
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