Spain-headed multi-energy major Repsol S.A. has announced that the company's industrial complex in Cartagena has received the first vessel with used cooking oil (UCO) to be used as a raw material in Spain's first renewable fuels plant. The ship, which arrived from Huelva in southern Spain, has unloaded 7,500 tonnes of used cooking oil (UCO).
Repsol is transforming its industrial complexes into multi-energy centers with the capacity to produce fuels with a low or zero carbon footprint.
At its Cartagena facilities, Repsol has invested over EUR 200 million and will produce 250,000 tonnes of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) per year from waste feedstock such as used cooking oil (UCO).
The ship unloaded the first 7,500 tonnes of UCO at the Port of Cartagena, and the start-up of the biorefinery is expected to take place in the coming weeks.
With this project, Repsol advances in its industrial transformation with the use of recycled raw materials to offer its customers 100 percent renewable fuels.
The new advanced biofuels, which can be used in any vehicle -car, truck, ship, or airplane- without the need for engine modifications, represent a milestone in the immediate reduction of fossil carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in mobility.
