Avfuel powers SAF expansion with new US supply points

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Avfuel Corp. announced Jan. 31 a total of three new supply points for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in addition to a renewed SAF supply agreement to support increased SAF volume across the Avfuel network. 

Most notably, Avfuel’s SAF availability now extends up the U.S. East Coast with the addition of a supply terminal in Linden, New Jersey.  

This terminal joins Pasadena, Texas, and Florida’s Port Everglades, which both also established continuous flow in January. 

“We have high expectations for SAF volumes in 2025,” said C.R. Sincock II, Avfuel’s executive vice president. “These new supply points are integral to meeting or exceeding those expectations. No longer is SAF landlocked in the West. With the addition of these terminals—particularly those in New Jersey and Florida—we’ve vastly expanded our supply-chain infrastructure to significantly enhance SAF’s accessibility.” 

As SAF came available in Linden Jan. 31, Avfuel said it wasted no time finding it a new home.  

Heritage Aviation—Avfuel’s branded FBO partner in Burlington, Vermont—is the first Avfuel network location in the Northeast to commit to consistent supply of SAF.  

Avfuel and Heritage Aviation expected the first SAF delivery to take place in early February.  

While Avfuel’s volume out of Linden will be focused on business-aviation users, the company will also make the fuel available to all segments of aviation, including commercial operators. 

Avfuel’s expanded SAF network this January resulted from its commercial supply arrangements with Valero Marketing and Supply Co.  

At the same time, Avfuel said it inked an extended supply agreement with long-time partner and SAF producer, Neste, which includes significant SAF volumes out of its Selby and Vopak terminals in Northern and Southern California, respectively. 

Together, Avfuel said its production partnerships will help land SAF in the fuel tanks of more operators at more locations across the U.S., helping to realize business aviation’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. 

Avfuel’s SAF out of Linden, Port Everglades and Pasadena is made using the HEFA-SPK process, meaning it uses lipids—like used cooking oil—to produce the fuel, and can lower lifecycle-GHG emissions by up to 80 percent when compared to conventional jet fuel.  

With target percentages of 30 percent neat SAF and 70 percent conventional jet fuel, this SAF can lower lifecycle-GHG emissions by up to 24 percent when compared to conventional jet fuel.