(Sun Daily) Petroleum companies have two months to switch from the current B7 (a blend of 7% palm methyl ester and 70% petroleum diesel to B10 biodiesel before its mandatory implementation on Feb 1, 2019.
Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok said B10 biodiesel (a blend of 10% palm methyl ester and 90% petroleum diesel) programme for the transport sector would be implemented in phases beginning Dec 1.
“The current low price of palm oil (environment) is the right time to implement the expanded biodiesel programme which was deferred in 2016,” she told a press conference yesterday to announce the B10 biodiesel programme for the transport sector and B7 for the industrial sector.
Kok said the B7 programme for the industrial sector would be implemented starting July 1, 2019. READ MORE
Malaysia to raise minimum bio content in biodiesel to 10% from Dec 1 (Sun Daily)
Malaysia to fully implement new biodiesel programme from Feb (Reuters/Bangkok Post)
Indonesia to drop palm oil levy as farmers hit by price fall (Zawya)
Malaysia’s biodiesel plan faces uphill struggle as crude slumps (Bloomberg/The Malaysian Reserve)
PM launches B10 biodiesel programme – to reduce CO2 by 10%, boost demand for Malaysian palm oil (paultan.org)
Excerpt from Zawya: Top exporter Indonesia said on Monday it will temporarily remove a levy on palm oil after a sharp drop in prices which has hit farmers.
Indonesia collects levies from palm exporters to help finance the development of its palm-based biodiesel programme, as well as funding other palm oil agenda, such as replanting.