Sustainability and Environment
Shell Signs SAF Agreement with New Production Plant
Shell Aviation has agreed on a purchase agreement for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with Colorado-based Red Rock Biofuels.
Once the Red Rock Biofuels plant currently under construction in Oregon comes online in early 2021, it will have the capacity to produce 16 million gallons per year of renewable Jet-A and diesel fuel. (Photo: Red Rock Biofuels)
Once the Red Rock Biofuels plant currently under construction in Oregon comes online in early 2021, it will have the capacity to produce 16 million gallons per year of renewable Jet-A and diesel fuel. (Photo: Red Rock Biofuels)

Shell Aviation has agreed on a purchase agreement for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with Colorado-based Red Rock Biofuels. Red Rock expects its biorefinery under construction in Lakeview, Oregonwhich will be the first commercial-scale plant to use woody biomass as a feedstockwill begin operation in the second quarter of 2021. It will have the initial capacity to turn approximately 166,000 dry tons of waste woody biomass into 16.1 million gallons per year of low-carbon, renewable jet and diesel fuels.