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	View Edit Domain: BioEnergy Title: * Body: MANILA - Petron Corp. (PCOR.PH), the country`s largest oil refiner by sales, said Wednesday it has made its first purchase of locally produced fuel-grade ethanol, which will be used to blend with gasoline.<p>Petron said it bought the ethanol from Leyte Agri Corp., the first manufacturing plant in the country to produce fuel-grade ethanol. </p><p>Petron introduced its E10 product - a blend of 10% fuel-grade ethanol and 90% unleaded gasoline - in June, a year ahead of the deadline set by the country`s Biofuels Law for mandatory blending. Gasoline must have 5% ethanol next year and 10% by 2011. </p><p>It has been sourcing ethanol for its E10 products from Brazil so far. </p><p>Petron has an agreement to buy the entire ethanol output of San Carlos Bioenergy Inc., which is building an integrated sugar mill, cogeneration plant and distillery complex in central Philippines that would start producing 125,000 liters of ethanol a day by the end of 2008. </p><p>More ethanol plants are expected to go on stream in 2009. </p><p>Ethanol is a high-octane, water-free alcohol extracted from sugar cane and other crops such as corn, cassava and sweet sorghum. </p><p>The law also requires the blending of biofuels with diesel, a fuel primarily used by the public transport sector.</p><br /><p> </p>© 2008 The Connors Group, Inc.<o:p /> Captcha: Please Enter Code : * Time Zone: * Select the time zone Vocabularies Newsletter: Domain: Show summary in full view Input format Filtered HTML Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. Full HTML Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. news_filter Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. More information about formatting options			Related Articles Mansfield, Noble merge ethanol marketing divisions Novozymes explores seaweed-to-ethanol in India Energy beet project gets funds, aims for advanced biofuel st... Fiberight cellulosic ethanol project lands $25M USDA loan gu... USDA Allots 50M$ forAdvanced Biofuels American Ethanol Gears Up for 2012 NASCAR Season Alcohol industry wants say on ethanol pricing House committee members, industry slam effort to delay E15 ADM to close ND ethanol plant John Lindt: Biofuel maker to double employees Top BioEnergy Articles

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