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.

Malaysia has raised its biodiesel blend rate from B10 to B15, produced across 19 licensed plants, expected to consume roughly 801,000 tonnes of crude palm oil annually while leaving exports untouched. The move follows Vietnam's E10 ethanol mandate and precedes Indonesia's B50 biodiesel launch by a month, giving Southeast Asia three biofuel mandate increases within eight weeks, all citing the same driver: reducing exposure to Middle East-linked oil price volatility.

Vietnam has rolled out a nationwide mandate requiring all gasoline sold to be blended into E10 (10% ethanol), replacing conventional RON95. The country's ethanol demand of roughly 100,000 cubic metres a month currently outstrips domestic production, with the gap met through imports. The move lands alongside Indonesia's B50 mandate as part of a broader regional pivot toward biofuels, though some environmental groups warn the trend risks pushing up food prices if demand keeps r

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

Indonesia has begun nationwide rollout of its mandatory B50 biodiesel programme, raising palm-oil-based FAME content in diesel from 40% to 50%. The government cites foreign exchange savings of up to USD 8.82 billion and reduced diesel import reliance as the rationale, framing it as energy independence amid the Middle East conflict. As the world's largest palm oil producer, Indonesia's move has direct consequences for regional palm oil markets and feedstock competition across

Singapore's Parliament has passed a motion backing an S$800 million research package, RIE2030, spanning AI and autonomy across aviation, maritime and land transport over the next five years. Within the maritime portion, funding is earmarked for alternative-fuel safety research, including leak detection tools, to support the shift to biofuel, methanol and ammonia bunkering. Mostly an AI and workforce story, but with a real, specific fuels-safety thread inside it.

Ocean Network Express has marked the maiden voyage of ONE Solidarity, a methanol- and ammonia-ready container ship, with its first call at Shekou, China. The vessel isn't running on either fuel yet; it's built with the flexibility to convert later, part of a wider industry trend of ordering dual-fuel-ready tonnage rather than committing fleets to a single alternative fuel pathway. A look at what "fuel-ready" really means, and why carriers are hedging their bets.

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.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore issued methanol bunkering licences to Global Energy Trading, Golden Island, and PetroChina International (Singapore), effective 1 January 2026. The three were selected from 13 applicants through an evaluation covering supply chain reliability, operational readiness, safety systems, and the sustainability certification of the methanol supplied. The licences run for five years, to 31 December 2030, giving licensees a defined runway t

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

International Future Fuels Week (IFFW) has officially launched its public platform at www.iffw.sg, marking the formal opening of the world's first international cross-sector conference and exhibition dedicated to future fuels across aviation, maritime, land transport, and off-road and industrial applications. The inaugural edition of IFFW will take place from 14 to 17 June 2027 at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, with an expected attendance of mo