Shell contracts with Jacobs to help with European biofuels program
October 6, 2008
BY Anna Austin
Web exclusive posted Oct. 8, 2008 at 10:33 a.m. CST
Royal Dutch Shell PLC has granted a three-year contract to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. to provide design, engineering, procurement, and construction management services for the future installation of Shell ethanol and biodiesel blending facilities in company depots throughout Europe.
Under the contract, Jacobs will develop conceptual designs and basic engineering packages for various biofuel blending projects, as well as fully implement and construct most of the projects. The company will work out of Ghent, Belgium. The value of the contract could not be disclosed by the companies.
"We are very enthusiastic to support Shell in implementing this biofuels program," Jacobs Group vice president Robert Matha said. "It achieves Shell's objective to comply with European Union directives and satisfies customer demand for clean fuel products."
Shell Global Solutions has a biofuel team working in four research centers in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and India.
In mid-September, the company announced the formation of six biofuel research agreements with a range of organizations across the world. These include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; The University of Campinas at Sao Paulo, Brazil; Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing; Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology in Qingdao, China; Center of Excellence for Biocatalysis, Biotransformations and Biocatalytic Manufacture at Manchester University, in the United Kingdom; and the School of Biosciences Exeter University, also in the U.K.
All of the agreements are between two and five years, and focus on commercializing applications of new biofuel technologies including the investigation of new biomass and biofuel production processes, improving efficiencies and lowering costs.
Shell is also partner with Ottawa, Canada-based Iogen Corp., to scale up a technology which uses enzymes to make ethanol from straw. Iogen and its partners have operated a demonstration plant since 2004 and are now assessing the design and feasibility of a full-scale commercial plant.
As part of its ongoing collaboration, Iogen shipped slightly more than half of a 47,000 gallon cellulosic ethanol order to Shell in early October. Read the story here.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC has granted a three-year contract to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. to provide design, engineering, procurement, and construction management services for the future installation of Shell ethanol and biodiesel blending facilities in company depots throughout Europe.
Under the contract, Jacobs will develop conceptual designs and basic engineering packages for various biofuel blending projects, as well as fully implement and construct most of the projects. The company will work out of Ghent, Belgium. The value of the contract could not be disclosed by the companies.
"We are very enthusiastic to support Shell in implementing this biofuels program," Jacobs Group vice president Robert Matha said. "It achieves Shell's objective to comply with European Union directives and satisfies customer demand for clean fuel products."
Shell Global Solutions has a biofuel team working in four research centers in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and India.
In mid-September, the company announced the formation of six biofuel research agreements with a range of organizations across the world. These include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; The University of Campinas at Sao Paulo, Brazil; Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing; Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology in Qingdao, China; Center of Excellence for Biocatalysis, Biotransformations and Biocatalytic Manufacture at Manchester University, in the United Kingdom; and the School of Biosciences Exeter University, also in the U.K.
All of the agreements are between two and five years, and focus on commercializing applications of new biofuel technologies including the investigation of new biomass and biofuel production processes, improving efficiencies and lowering costs.
Shell is also partner with Ottawa, Canada-based Iogen Corp., to scale up a technology which uses enzymes to make ethanol from straw. Iogen and its partners have operated a demonstration plant since 2004 and are now assessing the design and feasibility of a full-scale commercial plant.
As part of its ongoing collaboration, Iogen shipped slightly more than half of a 47,000 gallon cellulosic ethanol order to Shell in early October. Read the story here.
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