Neste Oil Produces Fuel from Recycled Lubricants

Neste Oil has produced its first batch of traffic fuel from recycled lubricants, the petroleum products and biofuel company says.

Following treatment, spent lubricating oil can be reused as a feedstock for producing gasoline and diesel fuel. Neste Oil successfully tested using spent motor oil in this way at its Naantali refinery at the end of May and now aims to begin using this material on a continuous basis.

Lars Peter Lindfors, Neste Oil’s senior vice president, technology, says the company is the world’s largest producer of renewable fuels from waste and residues and is working to increase its use of recycled materials such as spent motor oil.

Using spent motor oil to produce traffic fuel is a continuation of the use of tall oil pitch as a feedstock that began at the Naantali refinery last year. Both materials represent waste that is otherwise difficult to reuse.

Neste Oil also uses waste animal and fish fat and various vegetable processing residues as inputs for producing renewable diesel. During 2013, Neste Oil says it produced enough renewable diesel from waste and residues to power more than 1 million cars for a year.

Neste Oil ranked no. 4 on Corporate Knights’ Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable companies, published earlier this year.