PBF Energy, Eni complete unit for Louisiana renewable fuels project
In Oklahoma, Oil & Gas Journal reported that PBF Energy and its partner Eni SPA subsidiary Eni Sustainable Mobility SPA (ESM) have completed construction on the main production unit of the 50-50 joint venture St. Bernard Renewables LLC’s (SBR) new biorefinery co-located and still partially under development at PBF Energy subsidiary Chalmette Refining’s coking refinery in Chalmette, St. Bernard Parish, in Louisiana. After reaching mechanical completion during the first quarter of 2023, the SBR project’s renewable diesel production unit has been turned over to operations, with the first feedstocks scheduled for introduction to the unit this month. According to the report, construction remains under way on a pretreatment unit at the manufacturing site that, once online, will allow SBR to process renewable materials into feedstocks for the production unit. At a total projected cost of $650-700 million, the SBR renewables plant and related project infrastructure comes as part of PBF Energy’s proposed JV with ESM that, formed in February, is scheduled to be finalized during third-quarter 2023.
