BP exits jatropha biofuel project to focus on ethanol
Bloomberg News
July 17, 2009, 6:37AM

BP Plc, Europe's second-largest oil company, will exit its jatropha biofuel
project with D1 Oils Plc to focus on production of ethanol in Brazil and the
U.S. and advance biobutanol development.

“To ensure the success of these investments, BP is concentrating new business
development in these areas and will no longer be directly involved in the
jatropha as a biofuel feedstock,” Sheila Williams, a London-based company
spokeswoman, said today in an e-mail.

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