Sudan exports ethanol to European Union
SUDAN has begun exporting its first five million litres of ethanol to the European Union, at an initial price of around 450 euros a cubic metre, officials from the Kenana Sugar company said yesterday.
SUDAN has begun exporting its first five million litres of ethanol to the European Union, at an initial price of around 450 euros a cubic metre, officials from the Kenana Sugar company said yesterday.
Kenana, Sudan’s largest sugar company, this year inaugurated the ethanol plant which aims to produce 65 million litres a year of the bio-fuel.
“Yesterday, a vessel carrying five million litres of ethanol went to Rotterdam,†said company secretary Fareed Omer Medani.
“This has been purchased by the European Union,†he said, adding that by the end of February a further 20 million litres would be exported in four separate shipments.
Kenana’s managing director, Mohamed El Mardi, told Reuters the price per cubic metre for the December shipment was about 450 euros. But he said prices for the four further shipments would vary, depending on the market.
“The prices are not fixed,†he said.
“For the five shipments we will have five different prices, January/February prices are higher than in December.â€
Mardi said it was the first export of ethanol from Sudan, adding the shipments would continue regularly at five million litres every month. Mardi said the plant’s capacity would rise to 200 million litres of ethanol a year by 2013.
The factory uses by-products from Sudan’s sugar industry to create a renewable energy source for a country whose economy is largely dependent on crude oil output of almost 500,000 barrels per day.
He added some European companies had contacted Kenana about possible ethanol exports to West Africa. Brazilian company Dedini Industrias de Base S.A. built the ethanol plant. Sudan aims to produce 750,000 tonnes of sugar in 2009/2010.
Reuters
Kenana, Sudan’s largest sugar company, this year inaugurated the ethanol plant which aims to produce 65 million litres a year of the bio-fuel.
“Yesterday, a vessel carrying five million litres of ethanol went to Rotterdam,†said company secretary Fareed Omer Medani.
“This has been purchased by the European Union,†he said, adding that by the end of February a further 20 million litres would be exported in four separate shipments.
Kenana’s managing director, Mohamed El Mardi, told Reuters the price per cubic metre for the December shipment was about 450 euros. But he said prices for the four further shipments would vary, depending on the market.
“The prices are not fixed,†he said.
“For the five shipments we will have five different prices, January/February prices are higher than in December.â€
Mardi said it was the first export of ethanol from Sudan, adding the shipments would continue regularly at five million litres every month. Mardi said the plant’s capacity would rise to 200 million litres of ethanol a year by 2013.
The factory uses by-products from Sudan’s sugar industry to create a renewable energy source for a country whose economy is largely dependent on crude oil output of almost 500,000 barrels per day.
He added some European companies had contacted Kenana about possible ethanol exports to West Africa. Brazilian company Dedini Industrias de Base S.A. built the ethanol plant. Sudan aims to produce 750,000 tonnes of sugar in 2009/2010.
Reuters