Europe’s Largest Renewable Diesel Plant Opened
Neste Oil has officially opened the largest renewable diesel refinery in Europe, which is located in Rotterdam to produce the company’s renewable diesel NExBTL. The plant was built at € 670 million and has an annual production capacity of 1 billion liters of NExBTL. According to Neste Oil, the emissions benefit of the refinery’s output will be the equivalent of removing more than 250,000 cars from the road, reducing greenhouse gases by a total of over 1.5 million tons annually. The plant is also capable of producing renewable aviation fuel in the future.
The refinery has great feedstock flexibility in which vegetable oils, byproducts of vegetable oil refining, waste oils and fats, and future feedstocks such as algae oil could be used. The company’s main targets for NExBTL are in Europe and North America. It also has a facility in Singapore and two renewable diesel plants in Finland.
