Repsol enters biomethane production with acquisition of 40% stake in Genia Bioenergy

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Repsol is entering the biomethane market with an agreement to take a 40% shareholding in Genia Bioenergy. This alliance allows Repsol to add significant human and technical capabilities to position itself early in this growing sector. Biomethane is considered strategic by the European Union – which has set itself an ambition to increase its production eightfold by 2030 compared to that recorded in 2022 – in its RePower EU program. The Spanish Gas Association (Sedigas) estimates that biomethane could account for almost half of Spain’s natural gas consumption.

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Repsol receives the first ship carrying used cooking oil for its new renewable fuels plant in Cartagena

Buque con aceite usado en el complejo industrial de Cartagena

Repsol’s industrial complex in Cartagena received the first ship with used cooking oil to be used as a raw material in Spain’s first renewable fuels plant. The ship, that arrived from Huelva in southern Spain, unloaded 7,500 tons of used cooking oil.

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Repsol and Monarch Alternative Capital invested in Canadian Enerkem

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Enerkem in Westbury, Quebec

Canadian company Enerkem, a world leader in the production of low-carbon intensity biofuels and circular chemicals from waste materials, closed a new financing totaling $255 million. Repsol invests $170 million, of which $75 million is in Enerkem’s equity and $95 million in convertible debt. In doing so, Repsol joins existing shareholder Suncor Energy as a strategic shareholder to accelerate the adoption and deployment of Enerkem’s technology and to develop new projects in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). In addition, Monarch Alternative Capital, a new investor, is contributing $30 million to the round while Avenue Capital Group is reinvesting $30 million, both in convertible debt. Finally, there is $25 million reinvested in equity by some existing shareholders.

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