Air BP, the international aviation fuel
products and service supplier, is now offering commercial jet biofuel (biojet)
to customers at Bergen airport in Norway (BGO/ENBR). The first batch was
delivered to the airport on 16 August.
This follows Air BP’s successful introduction
of biojet at Halmstad airport in Sweden in June 2017 and at Oslo airport in
Norway in January 2016. As with Oslo, Air BP has worked with Norwegian airport
operator Avinor to make this latest development possible.
Air BP has also supplied airlines on an ad-hoc
basis at airports including Stockholm Arlanda (ARN/ESSA), Stockholm Bromma (BMA/ESSB),
Karlstad (KSD/ESOK) and Göteborg Landvetter (GOT/ESGG).
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(L-R) Aslak Sverdrup, lufthavndirektør
Bergen lufthavn, Flesland (airport director Bergen Airport), Thorbjorn Larsson,
general manager Air BP Nordics and Dag Falk-Petersen, konsernsjef Avinor (CEO
Avinor). |
Commenting on the announcement,
Thorbjorn Larsson,
general manager Air BP Nordics, said: “We are excited to help make the supply of
biojet commercially available and accessible to our customers in Bergen, our
third airport in Scandinavia. The aviation industry has ambitious targets to
reduce its carbon emissions and we are proud to be working together with our
customers to increase the use of biojet.”
Aslak Sverdrup,
Bergen airport director, commented: “With the aviation industry’s ongoing
commitment to protecting the environment, we are very pleased to collaborate
with Air BP on the introduction of biojet at Bergen. As with Oslo, we hope to
inspire other airports to follow suit so we can all work towards the desired
lower carbon future.”
Air BP continues to support its customers in
the use and adoption of biofuels and in achieving their carbon reduction goals.
Air BP was the first aviation fuel supplier to be independently certified carbon
neutral for into-plane fueling operations at 250 Air BP locations in October
2016. Air BP announced an investment of $30 million in biojet producer Fulcrum
BioEnergy in November 2016 with the aim of distributing and supplying biojet
into aircraft at key hubs across North America to meet growing demand. |