Enrique Locutura, General Manager of Repsol YPF in Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil, announced in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that the company will build a Biodiesel plant in the Argentine town of Ensenada from 2006. To that end, an amount of about $30 million will be invested. In the same event was inaugurated the Repsol YPF Biofuels Research Center, which will operate within the Argentina Technology Center located at the Petrochemical Pole in Ensenada.
The Biodiesel is based on the combination of standard diesel oil and vegetable oils that provide high energy values, mainly from sunflower, soybean and rapeseed. This clearly speaks of some kind of commercial alliance between the Argentine countryside and the oil company.
It is expected that by 2007 the Biodiesel plant will have a real production capacity of more than 100 thousand tons (annually) of Biodiesel. Repsol YPF proposes the gradual replacement of the current diesel oil with the new fuel, less harmful to the environment.
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