Nippon Oil to ramp up biogasoline output in FY 2010

Nippon Oil Corp. plans to start churning out biogasoline next fiscal year at three more refineries, all in western Japan, according to The Nikkei. Biogasoline production is currently limited to the Negishi facility in Yokohama. At refineries in Oita, Osaka and Okayama prefectures, Nippon Oil will install equipment for mixing sugarcane and other plant-derived materials with regular gasoline. With biogasoline as the only type of gasoline to be produced by four of the Nippon Oil group’s seven domestic refineries, the environmentally friendly fuel will account for more than half of its gasoline output. (February 18, 2010)