North America’s Leading SAF &
Aviation Decarbonization Event
OCTOBER 2 - 4, 2024
Marriott Marquis Houston
Companies confirmed this week:
2024 Sponsors:
Diamond Sponsors
Montana Renewables
Montana Renewables produces renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel (“SAF”), renewable hydrogen, renewable natural gas, renewable propane, and renewable naphtha. As a leader in North America’s energy transition, Montana Renewables produces approximately 30 million gallons of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) per year, making us the largest SAF producer in North America.
For more information, please visit Renewable Energy for the 21st Century | Montana Renewables.
Shell Aviation
With one of the most extensive refueling networks in the world, Shell Aviation supplies fuel, lubricants, and sustainable solutions globally.
Shell’s Powering Progress strategy supports our purpose of providing more and cleaner energy solutions, as we work to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050.
In line with that target, we are increasingly supplying sustainable aviation fuel to customers as well as working to improve the sustainability of our lubricants portfolio. We envisage an aviation sector that will transition to sustainable solutions and we intend to maintain our key role in the sector.
For more information, please visit www.shell.com/aviation
Platinum Sponsors
ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil, one of the largest publicly traded international energy and petrochemical companies, creates solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs.
The corporation’s primary businesses - Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions – provide products that enable modern life, including energy, chemicals, lubricants, and lower emissions technologies. ExxonMobil holds an industry-leading portfolio of resources, and is one of the largest integrated fuels, lubricants, and chemical companies in the world. ExxonMobil also owns and operates the largest CO2 pipeline network in the United States. In 2021, ExxonMobil announced Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emission-reduction plans for 2030 for operated assets, compared to 2016 levels. The plans are to achieve a 20-30% reduction in corporate-wide greenhouse gas intensity; a 40-50% reduction in greenhouse gas intensity of upstream operations; a 70-80% reduction in corporate-wide methane intensity; and a 60-70% reduction in corporate-wide flaring intensity.
With advancements in technology and the support of clear and consistent government policies, ExxonMobil aims to achieve net-zero Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions from its operated assets by 2050. To learn more, visit exxonmobil.com and ExxonMobil’s Advancing Climate Solutions.
For more information, please visit www.corporate.exxonmobil.com
Johnson Matthey
At Johnson Matthey, our vision is for a world that’s cleaner and healthier, for todays and future generations. To cement this vision, we recently announced our commitment to be net zero by 2040. As a global leader in sustainable technologies, we apply our cutting-edge science to create solutions with our customers that make a real difference to the world around us. Through continued investment in class-leading research and development, we’re tackling the world’s big challenges into our third century and beyond.
Johnson Matthey and its partners have developed a suite of technologies to enable SAF production. Our solutions convert waste and biomass feedstocks, or electrolytic (green) hydrogen and CO2, into sustainable crudes.
Our collaboration with Virent has also advanced the development of the BioForming® S2A technology, which produces Synthesized Aromatic Kerosene (SAK), enabling expanded use of SAF, low carbon gasoline and biobased aromatic chemicals.
For more information, please visit Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) | Johnson Matthey
King & Spalding
King & Spalding is a global law firm that helps leading companies advance complex business interests in more than 160 countries. Working across a highly integrated platform of more than 1,300 lawyers in 23 offices globally, we deliver tailored commercial solutions through world-class offerings and an uncompromising approach to quality and service. Our Environmental, Health and Safety team consists of former Environmental Protection Agency lawyers along with lawyers who have scientific degrees and industry experience who handle the most complex investigations, litigation and regulatory matters arising under environmental, health and safety laws worldwide.
For more information, please visit www.kslaw.com/smart-tags/aviation-and-airlines
Gold Sponsors
Axens
Axens is a worldwide group that provides a complete range of solutions for the conversion of oil and biomass to cleaner fuels, for the production and purification of major petrochemical intermediates as well as for gas treatment and conversion options. Axens helps its clients build a sustainable future with inventive and performing solutions. The portfolio for the production of biofuels and bio-sourced chemicals includes cellulosic ethanol production via the Futurol™ technology, bio-ethylene production through the Atol® ethanol dehydration process, renewable jet-fuel and diesel production via Vegan® technology for lipid hydroprocessing.
For more information, please visit www.axens.net
Gevo
Gevo is on a mission to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with sustainable alternatives, and is commercializing the next generation of advanced, bio-based renewable fuels with the potential to achieve zero-carbon emissions.
For more information, please visit www.gevo.com
Honeywell UOP
Honeywell UOP is reimagining refining to pursue a lower carbon future today. Leveraging more than a century of innovation, Honeywell UOP unlocks the potential of more feedstocks with industry-leading processing technology for sustainable aviation fuels. With 50 licenses and counting, Honeywell UOP’s Ecofining™ technology is licensed to process 570,000 barrels per day of waste fats, oils, and greases, and our ethanol to jet technology is licensed to process 5 million gallons per year of ethanol. Now, Honeywell’s UOP eFining™ methanol to jet technology is available to support power to liquids SAF production at scale.
For more information visit uop.honeywell.com.
Intertek Caleb Brett
For more than 130 years, Intertek Caleb Brett has delivered professional, reliable inspection services for bulk commodities worldwide, ensuring both quantity and quality for products such as crude oil, fuels, grains, fertilizers, and more. Our expertise extends to advanced biofuels, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), biomass, and algae-derived fuels, providing comprehensive analysis and quality assurance to support clients in achieving their sustainability objectives. With a strong commitment to innovation and environmental stewardship, Intertek Caleb Brett helps organizations meet industry standards and regulatory requirements as they transition to cleaner, more sustainable energy solutions.
For more information, visit www.intertek.com/petroleum/sustainable-aviation-fuel-testing
KBR
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 33,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission-critical roles in 33 countries.
KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.
For more information, please visit https://www.kbr.com/en-gb
LanzaJet
LanzaJet is a leading sustainable fuels technology company dedicated to accelerating the energy transition by embracing the circular economy. As a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) technology provider and producer with patented alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) technology, LanzaJet is creating an opportunity for future generations, addressing the climate crisis, and transforming the global economy.
For more information, visit www.lanzajet.com
McDermott
McDermott is a premier, fully-integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. Our customers trust our technology-driven approach engineered to responsibly harness and transform global energy resources into the products the world needs. From concept to commissioning, McDermott's innovative expertise and capabilities advance the next generation of global energy infrastructure—empowering a brighter, more sustainable future for us all. Operating in over 54 countries, McDermott's locally-focused and globally-integrated resources include more than 30,000 employees, a diversified fleet of speciality marine construction vessels and fabrication facilities around the world.
For more information, please visit www.mcdermott.com
Phillips 66
Phillips 66 is one of the largest refiners in the United States and a top supplier of jet fuels and avgas to private, commercial and military aviation. Our extensive network of refineries, pipelines and supply terminals translates into secure, cost-effective supply now and in the future. Using our 95 years of experience and expertise, we’ll continue to lead out industry through its transition to a lower-carbon future.
For more information, please visit www.phillips66aviation.com
Silver Sponsors
1PointFive
1PointFive is an integrated Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS) platform that is working to help curb global temperature rise to 1.5°C by 2050 through the deployment of decarbonization solutions, including Carbon Engineering's (CE) Direct Air Capture (DAC) and AIR TO FUELS™ technologies alongside geologic sequestration hubs. Our vision is to assist commercial and industrial emitters to deploy these technologies as a means to accelerate global emissions reduction.
For more information, please visit www.1pointfive.com
AGRA ENERGY
AGRA ENERGY transforms methane gas waste into clean and renewable liquid fuels. We have innovated a new compact design for GTL (gas to liquid), calling it a micro-GTL. Micro-GTL enables Agra to attack pollution at its source. Anywhere there is biogas, such as a landfill, wastewater treatment facility, food waste, etc., we can convert that pollution stream into a ‘drop in’ liquid fuel. Agra’s current target is cow manure, with our first commercial site becoming operational in August 2023 at the Dairyland Dairy in New Franken, WI, yielding approximately 50 barrels of Renewable Diesel/SAF per day. We foresee a rapidly growing enterprise, installing hundreds of our units over the next five years.
For more information, please visit www.agraenergy.com
Airbus
Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services.
In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. With disruptive technologies and clean fuel alternatives, Airbus is committed to bringing zero-emission commercial aircraft to market by 2035, in collaboration with partners around the globe.
Airbus is also a European leader in defence and security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.
For more information, please visit www.airbus.com
CORYS
CORYS is a global leader in real time high-fidelity dynamic process simulation, engineering, and training for process industries supporting sustainable aviation fuel, energy and transportation projects globally. Our products and services provide world-class experiences that set new standards in process engineering design, optimization and operator training by teaching energy efficiency, reliability and safety. Headquartered in Grenoble, France, we have delivered simulators in more than 60 countries over 60+ years. We support a worldwide fleet of more than 2600 simulators. CORYS serves all process industries, ranging from upstream offshore platforms to downstream refining, chemicals, and polymers including several sustainable aviation refining and midstream projects. We also support new biofuels technology, as well as renewable energies. CORYS’ core solution is dynamic process simulation that accurately simulates your process across a wide range of conditions including design, start up, shut down, and steady state operations.
For more information, visit www.corys.com/en/process-industries
DG Fuels LLC
DG Fuels LLC is a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology and development company that combines green hydrogen production with very high carbon conversion rates in producing its zero emissions, drop-in jet and other high value fuels. The company’s proprietary approach results in lower carbon feedstock requirements, lower costs of production and greater scalability potential.
For more information, please visit www.dgfuels.com
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific is proud of our Mission: To enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Through Process Raman spectroscopy solutions, such as the Themo Scientific™ MarqMetrix™ All-In-One Process Raman Analyzer, we help our customers accelerate innovation and enhance productivity in the world’s clean energy industries, including SAF, hydrogen, and carbon capture. Our solutions in Process Raman spectroscopy provide real-time analysis with process control and enable users to achieve accurate and dependable compositional measurement at every stage of the process.
For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com
Twelve
Twelve is the Carbon Transformation Company™ on a mission to build a fossil-free future. Our revolutionary electrochemical technology uses CO2 to produce hydrocarbons that are essential for various products that are typically made from fossil fuels. By transforming existing carbon, we can reduce emissions, close the carbon loop, and be the element of change.
For more information, please visit www.twelve.co
World Energy
World Energy is a low-carbon solution pioneer working with leading companies to help meet their net-zero commitments. With operations in sustainable aviation fuel, clean hydrogen, advanced biofuels, and fully transparent decarbonization services, World Energy is collaborating to confront the biggest decarbonization challenges in the hardest-to-abate sectors. For over 25 years World Energy has been at the forefront of commercializing renewable fuels and was the world’s first commercial-scale sustainable aviation fuel producer. Today, World Energy is investing over $15 billion into major new projects in California, Texas, and Newfoundland to help leaders accelerate their efforts to make net-zero real.
For more information, please visit www.worldenergy.net
Knowledge Partner
PA Consulting
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies and innovation collide we create opportunity from complexity. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster, together. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.
For more information, please visit www.paconsulting.com/industries/transport/aviation
Strategic Partners
Aether Fuels
Aether Fuels envisions a net-zero world enabled by its breakthrough sustainable liquid fuel production technology. We are developing highly scalable solutions that improve the unit economics of producing sustainable fuels for aviation and ocean shipping. Established in 2022, we maintain principal operations in the U.S. and Singapore.
For more information, please visit www.aetherfuels.com
Avfuel
Avfuel provides fuel and services—including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), book and claim for SAF, carbon offsetting and advancements toward an unleaded avgas solution—to the global aviation industry. As the leading independent supplier with 50 years of experience, Avfuel combines global access with personalized service throughout 3,000+ fueling locations.
For more information, please visit www.avfuel.com/sustainability
Zeolyst International
Founded in 1988, Zeolyst International (50:50 JV of Ecovyst and Shell Catalysts & Technologies) is a global leader in the research, development and manufacture of zeolite powders, catalysts and adsorbents. Zeolyst has a wide portfolio of zeolites for the renewable energy, refining, petrochemical, and emission control sectors with the capability to tailor and scale up to meet customer needs. Our R&D and pilot facilities are located in Conshohocken, PA with primary manufacturing sites located in Kansas City, KS and Delfzijl, The Netherlands.
For more information, please visit www.zeolyst.com
Kearney
Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm. For nearly 100 years, we have been a trusted advisor to C-suites, government bodies, and nonprofit organizations. Our people make us who we are. Driven to be the difference between a big idea and making it happen, we work alongside our clients to regenerate their businesses to create a future that works for everyone.
For more information, please visit www.kearney.com
Lydian
Lydian is on a mission to decarbonize the aviation industry. Founded in 2021 and based in Cambridge, MA, Lydian is developing a novel process to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals from captured CO2, water, and renewable electricity. The company’s technology replaces oil and gas refining with fully-electrified, modular reactor systems that achieve best-in-class energy efficiency, process intensity, and significant reductions in capital costs.
Lydian has raised funding from leading venture capitalists including Congruent Ventures, Galvanize, Union Square Ventures, Voyager and others, and has been awarded funding from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.
For more information, please visit www.lydianlabs.com
Minnesota SAF Hub
The Minnesota SAF Hub is the nation’s first large-scale SAF hub. Led by the GREATER MSP Partnership, anchor partners include Bank of America, Delta Air Lines, Ecolab and Xcel Energy. Our goal is to deliver millions of gallons of affordable, low-carbon SAF to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul (MSP) International Airport.
For more information, please visit www.mnsafhub.org
Velocys
Velocys is an international sustainable fuels technology company with two decades of operational, engineering and project development expertise assisting clients worldwide with advanced 2G SAF project design and execution. Velocys’ modular technology, demonstrated at commercial scale, enables production of SAF with low or negative carbon intensity from a variety of waste materials, including MSW and woody biomass, or e-fuels.
For more information, please visit www.velocys.com
Badge & Lanyard Sponsor
Bureau Veritas FUELS Group
Bureau Veritas FUELS is a global leader in testing, inspection, and certification. Our sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) services ensure compliance with international standards, enhancing fuel efficiency and reducing environmental impact. We support the aviation industry's transition to greener energy with reliable SAF testing and inspection, promoting sustainability and safety.
For more information, please visit www.group.bureauveritas.com/markets-services/commodities/oil-petrochemicals
Workshop Partner
Gevo
Gevo is on a mission to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with sustainable alternatives, and is commercializing the next generation of advanced, bio-based renewable fuels with the potential to achieve zero-carbon emissions.
For more information, please visit www.gevo.com
Networking Drinks Sponsor
AmSpec Group
Your trusted independent testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) partner provides empowered expertise for a safer, more sustainable world.
Our mission is to provide professional and reliable TIC services globally. By empowering our staff at every level, we aim to create a strong entrepreneurial and agile culture. This drives our commitment to each client relationship, ensuring the highest standard of quality, accuracy, and precision in our journey toward a safer, greener, and sustainable future.
We are dedicated to exceeding our clients' expectations, which defines the AmSpec way of doing business. We do this with well-documented systems, training, experienced employees, and continuous improvements of overall operations. Our employees are empowered to provide unparalleled levels of service.
For more information, please visit: www.amspecgroup.com
Coffee Break Sponsor
Merrick
We create Bio Solutions to Better Our World by serving innovators in the Sustainable Aviation Fuels, Advanced Biofuels, and Cellulosic Biofuels markets. A leader in bioprocessing, Merrick provides multi-discipline EPCM services from FEL through commissioning. We have served clients for more than 65 years and maintain 26 offices in the US, Canada, Mexico, and UK.
For more information, please visit www.merrick.com
180 expert speakers, 700 energy and aviation attendees, 40 hours of content
and countless opportunities for first-class networking
With the USA positioned as a global leader for announced SAF projects, and exciting offtake agreements being announced with increasing frequency, the path to meeting the SAF Grand Challenge’s ambitious targets appears promising.
Join 700 senior leaders and industry experts from across the entire aviation and energy value chain for 3-days of high-level strategic and technical discussions as we look to:
Dissect regulatory frameworks across North America and how national Book and Claim standardization may be implemented
Dive into the challenges of financing the scaling of SAF and what role sustainable finance should play
Examine the latest developments in the GREET model for permitted feedstocks and share insights into life cycle analysis and CI
Discuss exciting developments in hydrogen, hybrid, and electric aircraft
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Meet the team
Abbey Brown, Technical Lead for the Washington Clean Fuel Standard, Washington Department of Ecology
As technical and policy lead for the Washington Clean Fuel Standard, which requires fuel suppliers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels, Abbey has unique insight on how the standard was developed, is implemented, and the potential for credit stacking.
Eleanor Parks
Monet Goode
Emmet Marsh
Eleanor Parks
Emmet Marsh
Companies confirmed this week