Malaysia to implement B10 BIODIESEL PROGRAMME BY MID-2019
2018.07.20
Malaysia will implement a higher biodiesel mandate from the second half of 2019, raising the minimum bio-content local producers must put in biodiesel to 10 percent from the current 7 percent, in a move to support palm oil prices.
The higher biodiesel blending mandate will soak up more supplies of palm oil, used as feedstock to make biodiesel, and reduce stockpiles in Malaysia, the world's second largest producer of the edible oil.
"The price gap between Brent oil and crude palm oil is narrowing, thus making higher blending of biodiesel ...more viable to be implemented in due course," said Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin, deputy minister of primary industries.
The ministry would announce the implementation of the programme by end of this year subject to cabinet approval, he said in a statement.
Malaysia's implementation of the higher palm oil percentages was delayed twice in 2016 when oil prices were low, and made conventional diesel more price competitive than biodiesel.
Prices of palm oil, used to produce the bio components of biodiesel, have shed nearly 12 percent since the start of the year partly on weak demand.
Malaysia will implement a higher biodiesel mandate from the second half of 2019, raising the minimum bio-content local producers must put in biodiesel to 10 percent from the current 7 percent, in a move to support palm oil prices.
The higher biodiesel blending mandate will soak up more supplies of palm oil, used as feedstock to make biodiesel, and reduce stockpiles in Malaysia, the world's second largest producer of the edible oil.
"The price gap between Brent oil and crude palm oil is narrowing, thus making higher blending of biodiesel ...more viable to be implemented in due course," said Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin, deputy minister of primary industries.
The ministry would announce the implementation of the programme by end of this year subject to cabinet approval, he said in a statement.
Malaysia's implementation of the higher palm oil percentages was delayed twice in 2016 when oil prices were low, and made conventional diesel more price competitive than biodiesel.
Prices of palm oil, used to produce the bio components of biodiesel, have shed nearly 12 percent since the start of the year partly on weak demand.
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