据烃加工新闻4月23日消息称，州长约翰·贝尔·爱德华兹和战略生物燃料有限责任公司的首席执行官保罗·舒伯特宣布，该公司的全资子公司路易斯安那绿色燃料公司计划在哥伦比亚考德威尔教区附近开发一个可再生柴油工厂。该工厂位于哥伦比亚港，占地171英亩，通过现有的精炼厂流程，以木材废料为原料，每年可生产多达3200万加仑的可再生燃料。该公司正在完成该项目的可行性和融资阶段，预计将在2022年底做出最终投资决定。
通过该项目，路易斯安那绿色燃料公司将至少投资7亿美元。该公司将直接创造76个新职位，平均年薪超过68000美元，外加福利。路易斯安那州经济发展局估计，该项目将为考德威尔教区和周边地区带来额外的412个间接就业机会，总计将近500个新就业机会。在30个月的建设阶段，该项目将创造450个建筑工作岗位。
爱德华兹州长说：“路易斯安那州绿色燃料是一个例子，说明了我们州如何将传统能源和新兴能源以令人兴奋的方式结合起来，以应对气候变化。该公司已与耶拿的贾斯蒂斯石油公司合作，钻探一口封存测试井，以确认地表以下1英里处的碳存储完整性。该项目将以可持续的方式收获木材副产品，从而改善我们州的林业部门，而炼油厂的可再生柴油产量将以负碳的方式实现。这意味着这家精炼厂将实现比净零排放更好的效果——它实际上从环境中去除的碳比它产生的碳更多。”
战略生物燃料公司已经从北路易斯安那州的投资者那里筹集了85%的初期融资。除了哥伦比亚的可再生柴油炼油厂，该公司还计划在路易斯安那州开发其他炼油厂，以生产可再生航空燃料和柴油为目标。
战略生物燃料首席执行官舒伯特博士说：“考德威尔教区是我们路易斯安那州绿色燃料工厂的理想地点。它结合了燃料生产所需的林业废弃物原料和路易斯安那州富有远见的立法框架内的碳封存的正确地质条件，爱德华兹州长建立的气候倡议进一步加强了这一立法框架。我们特别感谢他在最近2亿美元免税债券分配上的签字，这大大推进了该项目的融资。”
朱佳妮 摘译自 烃加工新闻
原文如下：
Louisiana Green Fuels plans $700 MM renewable diesel refinery
Gov. John Bel Edwards and CEO Paul Schubert of Strategic Biofuels LLC announced that the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Louisiana Green Fuels, plans to develop a renewable diesel plant near the Caldwell Parish seat of Columbia. Situated on a 171-acre site at the Port of Columbia, the plant would produce up to 32 million gallons of renewable fuel annually through established refinery processes with wood waste as the feedstock. The company is completing feasibility and financing phases for the project in anticipation of a final investment decision by late 2022.
Through the project, Louisiana Green Fuels would make a capital investment of at least $700 million. The company would create 76 new direct jobs, with an average annual salary of more than $68,000, plus benefits. Louisiana Economic Development estimates the project would result in an additional 412 new indirect jobs, for a total of nearly 500 new jobs in Caldwell Parish and the surrounding region. During a 30-month building phase, the project would generate 450 construction jobs.
“Louisiana Green Fuels is an example of how our state can merge traditional and emerging forms of energy in exciting ways to address climate change,” Gov. Edwards said. “The company has engaged Justiss Oil of Jena to drill a sequestration test well that will confirm the integrity of carbon storage a mile below the earth’s surface. This project would boost our state’s forestry sector by harvesting timber byproducts in a sustainable fashion, and the refinery’s renewable diesel output would be accomplished in a carbon-negative fashion. That means this refinery would achieve better than net-zero emissions – it would actually remove more carbon from the environment than it produces.”
Strategic Biofuels has raised 85 percent of its early-stage financing from investors in North Louisiana. In addition to the Columbia renewable diesel refinery, the company envisions the development of additional Louisiana refineries that would target production of renewable aviation fuel, as well as diesel.
“Caldwell Parish is the ideal location for our Louisiana Green Fuels plant,” said Dr. Schubert, CEO of Strategic Biofuels. “It combines the required forestry waste feedstock for fuel production and the right geology for carbon sequestration within the State of Louisiana’s visionary legislative framework, which has been further strengthened by the Climate Initiative established by Governor Edwards. We are especially thankful for his signature on the recent $200 million tax-free bond allocation, which substantially advances the financing for this project.”
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