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agreement with Israeli business firm Merhave to acquire up to a 35% equity interest in a sugarcane ethanol project being developed by Merhav in Colombia. Australia Dominican Republic The Four Arrows Company plans to build a 75-million-gallons-per-year (MMGY) ethanol plant along with a dairy and cattle operation at Coleambally in New South Wales. The dairy operation of the closed loop system will produce 20 MMGY of milk while the cattle operation will have room in its sheds for 18,000 head. Belarus Masada Resource Group, Birmingham, AL said Dec. 16 it is teaming with RJ Zapata & Associates S. A. to develop a commercial-scale waste-to-ethanol and electricity generating plant. Feedstock for the ethanol plant will be the municipal waste of the City of Santo Domingo East. The ethanol plant is anticipated to eventually produce 30 MMGY. El Salvador OPEC member Nigeria is looking into developing a cassava-based ethanol industry. According to the Nigerian Cassava Growers Association, a cassava-based ethanol industry could save the country up to $6.1 billion by 2012 on imports of kerosene and gasoline. Philippines The Philippine Department of Agriculture said Dec. 16 that Abengoa Bioenergy, Madrid, Spain, will develop 50,000 acres of cassava plantation to provide feedstock for a 40 MMGY ethanol plant. South Korea Ireland’s Greenfield Project Management Ltd. has entered into an agreement in Minsk with the Belarus government to jointly develop an ethanol plant that would use grain and sugarbeet as feedstocks. Budget for the project is EUR200 million. China PetroChina plans to invest $109 million to build a non-grain ethanol plant in Nanchong, Sichuan, that is capable of producing up to 100,000 tons (25 MMGY) of ethanol per year from wood waste. Colombia Southridge Enterprises, Inc, Dallas, TX, is planning to construct a 15 MMGY ethanol drying plant in El Salvador. The company plans to export ethanol from Brazil and import it into the United States via its facility in El Salvado where the company can take advantage of the Caribbean Basin Initiative, a trade agreement signed in 2000 that allows Caribbean and Central American countries to export ethanol into the United States duty-free. Mozambique Brazil’s state energy company Petrobras and South Korea’s Samsung Group have signed a letter of understanding that possibly could lead to Petrobras helping develop the ethanol industry in South Korea. South Korea is planning to implement a 10% biofuels blending mandate. Petrobras hopes to start exporting more than 100 million gallons per year to South Korea by 2009. Vietnam • Colombia’s government said Dec. 26 it plans to invest $342 million in the construction of three ethanol plants in the departments of Boliva, Cordoba, and Sucre. A total of 42,000 hectares of land will be planted to sugarcane to support the three plants. • Private equity firm Ampal-American Israel Corp. has signed an option United Kingdom-based Princple Energy Ltd. plans to build a $290 million ethanol plant near Domba town in the Sofala Province. Feedstock for the plant will come from a 20,000-hectare sugarcane plantation being developed in central Mozambique. Nigeria Raven Biofuels International, Houston, TX, and PetroVietnam Tourism and Services JS Corp. are planning to jointly construct an ethanol plant and a biodiesel plant on a common site in the Mekong River delta region. Raven Biofuels International opened an office in Ho Chi Minh City in June 2007. Compiled by Frank Zaworski, associate editor. Africa’s largest oil producer and 96 BFJ | JAN/FEB 08

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