GASOLINE-BIOETHANOL BLEND MAKES JAPANESE DEBUT VIA NIPPON OIL

Tue. June 02, 2009; Posted: 01:44 AM

TOKYO, Jun 02, 2009 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- NPOIF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Nippon Oil Corp. (TSE:5001) began sales Monday of gasoline with more than 1 per cent bioethanol content at 861 service stations in and around Tokyo, marking the first time for a biofuel to be fully commercialized in Japan.

The biogasoline is available at roughly half of the firm's affiliated gas stations in the capital as well as Kanagawa, Nagano, Yamanashi, Saitama, Gunma and Tochigi prefectures. Its price is the same as regular gasoline, and its properties and performance are said to be nearly identical.

Nippon Oil and other oil distributors had launched sales of biogasoline on a trial basis in fiscal 2007 by mixing gasoline with ethyl tertiary butyl ether, or ETBE, a compound of bioethanol and petroleum gas. These companies have unveiled plans to use bioethanol equivalent to 210,000kl of gasoline in fiscal 2010 as a way to address global warming.

Bioethanol is considered to be carbon-neutral when burned because the plants from which ethanol is made absorb carbon dioxide.

Meanwhile, the Environment Ministry is putting its weight behind another type of biogasoline in which bioethanol is mixed with gasoline directly. Bioethanol content is easier to increase using this processing method. This biogasoline is slated to become available on a trial basis at independent gas stations in greater Tokyo this summer.

(Nikkei)

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