據烴加工新聞4月23日消息稱，州長約翰·貝爾·愛德華茲和戰略生物燃料有限責任公司的首席執行官保羅·舒伯特宣布，該公司的全資子公司路易斯安那綠色燃料公司計劃在哥倫比亞考德威爾教區附近開發一個可再生柴油工廠。該工廠位于哥倫比亞港，占地171英畝，通過現有的精煉廠流程，以木材廢料為原料，每年可生產多達3200萬加侖的可再生燃料。該公司正在完成該項目的可行性和融資階段，預計將在2022年底做出最終投資決定。

　　通過該項目，路易斯安那綠色燃料公司將至少投資7億美元。該公司將直接創造76個新職位，平均年薪超過68000美元，外加福利。路易斯安那州經濟發展局估計，該項目將為考德威爾教區和周邊地區帶來額外的412個間接就業機會，總計將近500個新就業機會。在30個月的建設階段，該項目將創造450個建筑工作崗位。

　　愛德華茲州長說：“路易斯安那州綠色燃料是一個例子，說明了我們州如何將傳統能源和新興能源以令人興奮的方式結合起來，以應對氣候變化。該公司已與耶拿的賈斯蒂斯石油公司合作，鉆探一口封存測試井，以確認地表以下1英里處的碳存儲完整性。該項目將以可持續的方式收獲木材副產品，從而改善我們州的林業部門，而煉油廠的可再生柴油產量將以負碳的方式實現。這意味著這家精煉廠將實現比凈零排放更好的效果——它實際上從環境中去除的碳比它產生的碳更多。”

　　戰略生物燃料公司已經從北路易斯安那州的投資者那里籌集了85%的初期融資。除了哥倫比亞的可再生柴油煉油廠，該公司還計劃在路易斯安那州開發其他煉油廠，以生產可再生航空燃料和柴油為目標。

　　戰略生物燃料首席執行官舒伯特博士說：“考德威爾教區是我們路易斯安那州綠色燃料工廠的理想地點。它結合了燃料生產所需的林業廢棄物原料和路易斯安那州富有遠見的立法框架內的碳封存的正確地質條件，愛德華茲州長建立的氣候倡議進一步加強了這一立法框架。我們特別感謝他在最近2億美元免稅債券分配上的簽字，這大大推進了該項目的融資。”

　　朱佳妮 摘譯自 烴加工新聞

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　　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.”