MAURITIUS' OMNICANE TO BUILD KENYA SUGAR FACTORY - REPORT
PORT LOUIS, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Leading Mauritian sugar producer Omnicane is planning to develop a $180 million sugar factory in Kenya to fill a production gap, L'Express newspaper reported on Monday.
Omnicane chief executive officer Jacques d'Unienville said the sugar factory will be situated in the south of Kenya's port city of Mombasa and will initially access 17,000 acres of sugar cane.
PETROBRAS TO UP GASOLINE IMPORTS TO REPLACE ETHANOL
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petrobras will import more gasoline beginning in October to compensate for the decline in ethanol that is blended with the motor fuel, a top company official told Reuters on Friday.
Petrobras' refining capacity is "nearing its limit," which makes it harder for the Rio de Janeiro-based company to ramp up production of gasoline, said Paulo Roberto Costa, who heads Petrobras' supply unit.
GERMANY MAY SPOIL OUTLOOK FOR EU RAPESEED SOWINGS
HAMBURG, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Rain in Germany may spoil an otherwise positive picture for European Union rapeseed sowings for the 2012 harvest after bad weather caused a huge drop in the 2011 German crop, traders and analysts said on Thursday.
"It looks like the problem with German rain threatening EU rapeseed supplies will not end with this year's terrible German rapeseed crop. Unless the weather really dries up fast, smaller German sowings could also threaten the EU's 2012 crop," one trader said.
US ETHANOL OUTPUT DIPS NEARLY 2 PCT
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug 31 (Reuters) - U.S. ethanol production slipped nearly 2 percent last week and stocks were depleted at the same pace as good demand met with tight competition for high-priced corn, ethanol's key ingredient.
The Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday that U.S. ethanol production totaled 888,000 barrels per day in the seven days to Aug. 26, down 16,000 barrels per day from the previous week.
DENMARK'S DONG ENERGY EXPLORING LARGE BIOFUEL PLANT
COPENHAGEN, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Denmark's DONG Energy [DONG.UL] and local partners will explore the possibility of building a bioenergy complex, including a large-scale bioethanol plant to turn straw into fuel.
State-owned DONG has joined two local energy providers and a waste firm to form a consortium called Maabjerg Energy Concept, which will determine the feasibility of the project in western Jutland over the coming 15 months.
BRAZIL TO CUT ETHANOL BLEND IN GASOLINE FROM OCT.1
BRASILIA, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Brazil will cut the amount of ethanol biofuel it puts in its gasoline from October 1, the energy minister said on Monday, after a disappointing sugar cane crop too small to keep pace with growing demand.
Anhydrous ethanol content in gasoline will fall to 20 percent, down from the years-old 25 percent requirement, as a means to stretch projected supplies of ethanol.
LAND LAW CLIPS BRAZIL ETHANOL, SUGAR GROWTH EFFORT
BRASILIA, Aug 26 (Reuters) - The inability of Brazil's cane sector to keep up with growing demand for sugar and ethanol may worsen in the future if a government practice limiting land purchases by foreigners is maintained.
Foreign-controlled companies are now limited in the amount of land they can buy in Brazil after the Attorney General's office last year reinterpreted a law on the control of farm land by foreign capital. The decision was prompted by government concerns that alarming amounts of local land might be coming under control of foreign elements.
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