A Dutch jet-fuel supplier has agreed to buy 20 tonnes of 'gutter oil' from Qingdao, Shandong province, through a joint venture to produce a sustainable supply of fuel for its airline clients, mainland media said yesterday.
Hayo deFeiiter, a representative of Chinese-Dutch joint venture Beijing Trihelix, was in talks with Zheng Dehua, deputy chairman of Qingdao Fresh Bio-Energy Technology Development, about the firm's deal for reprocessed 'gutter' cooking oil from restaurants in the port city, according to the city's Bandao Metropolis News.
It said deFeiiter's trip to Qingdao focused on sourcing raw materials for SkyNRG, a Netherlands-based jet-fuel supplier that provides jet fuel to many European carriers, including KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
In June, a KLM jet flew from Amsterdam to Paris on gutter-oil-based fuel supplied by SkyNRG, becoming the first carrier to do so in Europe.
A Qingdao Fresh Bio-Energy employee said yesterday that deFeiiter was interested in her company's gutter oil just because of its reasonable price.
'What deFeiiter is going to buy is not the so-called gutter oil that the public knows but biofuels that our company refines from cooking oil,' she said, adding that the firm's biofuels were in broad use in vehicles and vessels on the mainland.
'Prices for our biofuels are lower than [the equivalent] fossil fuels.'
