Delta Air Lines and Shell Aviation have signed a five-year SAF supply agreement spanning five major US airports through 2030, including LAX, JFK and Boston Logan, focused on building blending and logistics capability alongside fuel volume. Delta's sustainability chief framed it around supply diversity amid market instability. The companies will also jointly evaluate next-generation pathways, including alcohol-to-jet and power-to-liquid, to expand supply beyond current waste-o

H4 Marseille Fos has secured 50% of the biogenic CO2 needed for its e-SAF facility through a partnership with the Rhône Décarbonation project, capturing CO2 from Vicat's cement plant and piping it to the Fos-sur-Mer site. Described as France's first structured CCU value chain, it follows a power agreement with EDF, including a first-of-its-kind nuclear allocation contract. The project targets 75,000 tonnes of e-SAF annually from 2032, with FID targeted for 2028.

FatHopes Energy has signed a feedstock partnership with Spain-based UCO Trading, targeting over 200,000 tonnes of UCO and other feedstocks annually through UCO Trading's global sourcing network. It's the Malaysian SAF developer's second such deal in weeks, following a separate MoU with China-focused MotionECO for the same volume. Both agreements remain non-binding MoUs, pointing to a deliberate feedstock diversification strategy across two continents.

Allied Biofuels has signed a logistics deal with Pro Logistic Services to export SAF and e-SAF from its Uzbekistan complex to Europe and the Gulf, via rail through the Trans-Caspian route to Black Sea ports, then marine tanker onward. It follows Sinopec's FEED contract for the plant itself. Locking in export routes before FID reflects the added logistics challenge landlocked SAF projects face compared with coastal competitors with direct port access.

Axens has launched the ERA project, France's first industrial-scale SAF production unit using bioethanol, targeting 50,000 tonnes annually by 2030 through Jetanol technology developed with IFPEN. CEO Quentin Debuisschert framed it as a sovereignty project as much as a climate one, building a domestic French value chain independent of imported feedstocks. The alcohol-to-jet pathway complements existing HEFA-based SAF by drawing on a different feedstock base.

Air Canada and Airbus have launched a jointly funded Sustainability Co-Investment Platform, targeting up to CAD 13.7 million to help a specific Canadian SAF project reach Final Investment Decision. Airbus also committed to a five-year SAF environmental attributes agreement under Air Canada's Leave Less Travel Program. A separate Airbus-ICF study projects scaling SAF to 40% of Canada's aviation fuel demand by 2040 could add CAD 32 billion to GDP and create 140,000 jobs.

ICAO has raised concern over the European Commission's 17 July proposal to expand EU ETS coverage to aviation flights departing the EEA from 2029, warning it risks duplicative carbon pricing alongside CORSIA, the global measure the EU helped negotiate in 2016. The Commission says a deduction mechanism avoids double pricing; ICAO reads the same proposal as introducing double-charging risk. The dispute has direct bearing on how EU SAF and fuel transition incentives get funded.

Fischer-Tropsch technology provider Velocys has launched the AlphaCore 400 microchannel reactor, roughly doubling capacity per unit while cutting FT unit cost, the first step in a roadmap to scale SAF production. The design targets larger, centralised facilities rather than the smaller, distributed plants microchannel FT has traditionally suited, addressing FT-SAF's higher capital cost versus HEFA.

Sinopec has completed its takeover of China National Aviation Fuel Group, the world's largest aviation fuel supplier, integrating refining and nationwide distribution under one operator as China's jet fuel demand is projected to hit 75 million tonnes by 2040. Supporters cite efficiency gains; critics warn it could reduce airlines' bargaining power and squeeze private SAF producers competing for access to the same distribution network.

The UK Department for Transport has published its allocation strategy for the Revenue Certainty Mechanism, a contract-for-difference scheme to help advanced SAF producers reach final investment decision. The first round opens for applications in Q1 2027, targeting up to 230,000 tonnes of annual capacity, funded through a levy on aviation fuel suppliers. Support is narrowly targeted at mature, non-HEFA, first-of-a-kind projects.

China's State Council has issued its "Beautiful China" 15th Five-Year Plan, targeting a 7-10% emissions cut below peak by 2035. Buried in its transport measures: specific calls to develop sustainable aviation fuel and advance carbon capture and storage demonstration projects, alongside airport electrification and port shore power.

Sinopec Engineering has signed a FEED contract with Uzbekistan's Allied Biofuels FE LLC to design Central Asia's first large-scale, integrated SAF complex. The facility is designed to produce roughly 160,000 tonnes of biomass-based SAF and 250,000 tonnes of e-SAF annually, using agricultural residues and solar power, targeting aviation demand in Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe. It marks a Chinese state oil major's first major overseas move into low-carbon fuel produc

Indonesia's Pertamina has signed an MOU with Boeing to explore developing a domestic sustainable aviation fuel industry, covering feedstock sourcing, production technology and policy support. No capacity or timeline has been disclosed yet, but it builds on Pertamina's existing SAF work through the Cilacap Biorefinery. The deal lands the same week as Indonesia's B50 biodiesel mandate, giving the country two active biofuel workstreams running in parallel across road and aviatio

Beijing Shougang LanzaTech, a China-based carbon-recycling joint venture between steelmaker Shougang and LanzaTech, has listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The venture converts industrial waste gas into ethanol, a feedstock already certified for ethanol-to-jet SAF production. With four operating facilities and real revenue behind it, the listing gives the wider carbon-recycling sector one of its first public market valuation benchmarks.

SIA has reaffirmed its commitment to sustainable aviation fuel despite a Middle East-driven fuel cost shock pushing jet prices well above last year's levels. While CAAS deferred the mandatory SAF Levy's start date, a separate voluntary procurement trial involving SIA, Scoot, and Changi Airport Group continues as planned. With fuel partly hedged and no surcharge reintroduced, SIA is absorbing costs through fares instead, a signal that its SAF commitment runs deeper than the le

Singapore has deferred the start of its Sustainable Aviation Fuel Levy by three months, citing cost pressures from the Middle East conflict on airlines and passengers. The levy now applies to tickets sold from 1 October 2026, for flights departing from 1 January 2027. CAAS held Singapore's underlying SAF targets unchanged, signalling flexibility on timing rather than a retreat from its decarbonisation ambitions.

Aether Fuels and FlyORO Technologies have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding to jointly explore SAF supply-chain and blending solutions for Project Beacon, Aether's next-generation SAF facility under development at Aster's Pulau Bukom refinery in Singapore. The collaboration pairs Aether's waste-carbon conversion technology with FlyORO's modular blending platform, both of which trace their origins to Singapore.

KBR has been picked to provide technology licensing and Front-End Engineering Design for what would be Asia's first commercial-scale ethanol-to-jet (AtJ) SAF plant, to be developed by Keppel's Infrastructure Division and Aster Chemicals and Energy on Jurong Island. The deal uses KBR's PureSAF technology, originally developed by Swedish Biofuels and now exclusively licensed by KBR worldwide. Keppel and Aster first announced their intent to jointly assess the facility earlier t