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Oil giant Shell ramps up sustainable jet fuel production
Oil giant, Shell has revealed bold plans to produce low carbon jet fuel for aircraft as the world continues to turn its focus on climate change
Shell plans to start producing low-carbon jet fuel at scale by 2025, in an attempt to encourage the world’s airlines to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Aviation accounts for around 3% of the world’s carbon emissions an is considered one of the toughest sectors to tackle due to a lack of alternative technologies to jet fuelled engines.
Shell is one of the world’s largest oil traders and has confirmed it aims to produce 2 million tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by 2025.
That effort is a ten-fold increase from today’s total global output.
SAF is produced from waste cooking oil, plants and animal fats, and Shell says it could cut up to 80% of aviation emissions
Shell, currently only supplies SAF produced by other refineries, including Finnish refiner Neste.
Shell stated that SAF can be blended with regular aviation fuel with little need to change plane engines, to make up 10% of its global aviation fuel sales by 2030.