Oberon Fuels, a California-based renewable fuels developer, is planning to build a Gulf Coast facility with a $200m capex. When operational it would produce 45,000 mtpy of methanol, or a comparative amount of rDME. Oberon Fuels hopes to reach FID by the end of 2024. In March 2024, Oberon announced it had hired Morgan Stanley… Continue reading Oberon | Gulf Coast rDME Facility
Enerkem and Dimeta are initiating feasibility studies for the development of a large-scale project that will convert waste into renewable dimethyl ether (rDME). As DME is chemically similar to Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG), it can be blended with it up to 20% and ‘dropped-in’ to existing LPG supply chains. The project is expected to be… Continue reading Dimeta-Enerkem Waste-to-DME Project
InEnTec will build a new renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) production facility at CRC’s Net Zero Industrial Park in Kern County California. In April 2023, Carbon TerraVault entered into a Carbon Dioxide Management Agreement (CDMA) with InEnTec to sequester initially at the minimum 100,000 MTPA of CO2 from InEnTec’s facility in the CTV I carbon storage… Continue reading InEnTec rDME Kern County Facility
