HEFA (hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids)
Sustainable aviation fuel made by hydrotreating fats, oils and greases: used cooking oil, tallow, and vegetable oils such as soybean, canola and camelina. Nearly all the sustainable aviation fuel made today is HEFA; most plants on record use it or a renewable diesel plant switched to it.
The fuel
- Class
- Sustainable aviation fuel
- Specification
- ASTM D7566 Annex A2
- Status
- in use
- Blend limit
- 50% with fossil jet fuel
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aircraft on the register burn it
no engine series on the register is built for it
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no airport on record sells it
by the FAA's file, the news and the sellers' sites
Who makes it 120 plants on SAFxCHANGE's record · announced capacity
| Plant | Owner | Where | Pathway | Status | Capacity, thousand tonnes a year | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fidelis New Energy | Fidelis New Energy | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States | HEFA | planned | 1,772 | 2025 |
| World Energy (Los Angeles) | World Energy | Los Angeles, United States | HEFA | planned | 1,514 | 2027 |
| Blue Point One | CF Industries | United States | HEFA | under construction | 1,400 | 2026 |
| Refuel Energy Inc | Refuel Energy Inc | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | HEFA | operating | 1,255 | 2025 |
| Neste (Singapore) | Neste | Singapore, Singapore | HEFA | operating | 1,000 | 2024 |
| Oriental Energy Company (Maoming) | Oriental Energy Company | Maoming, China | HEFA | planned | 999 | — |
| Acelen | Acelen | Brazil | HEFA | under construction | 800 | 2026 |
| Azure Sustainable Fuels Corp. (Portage la Prairie) | Azure Sustainable Fuels Corp. | Portage la Prairie, Canada | HEFA | operating | 800 | — |
| Petrobras | Petrobras | Brazil | HEFA | operating | 726 | 2030 |
| World Energy (Houston) | World Energy | Houston, Texas, United States | HEFA | paused | 720 | 2025 |
| Diamond Green Diesel | Diamond Green Diesel | Port Arthur, Texas, United States | HEFA | operating | 677 | 2024 |
| Eni (Gela, planned expansion) | Eni | Gela, Sicily, Italy | HEFA | planned | 650 | — |
| Samsung (Pengerang) | Samsung | Pengerang, Malaysia | HEFA | planned | 650 | — |
| Castellón refinery | Air bp | Castellón, Spain | HEFA | cancelled | 650 | 2027 |
| Pengerang Biorefinery | Pengerang Biorefinery Sdn Bhd | Pengerang, Malaysia | HEFA | under construction | 650 | 2028 |
| Ruibo Bioenergy | Ruibo Bioenergy | China | HEFA | planned | 600 | 2026 |
| Venice biorefinery | Enilive SPA | Venice, Italy | HEFA | under construction | 600 | 2027 |
| World Energy (Paramount, planned expansion) | World Energy | Paramount, California, United States | HEFA | planned | 576 | — |
| NEXT Renewable Fuels | NEXT Renewable Fuels | Port Westward, Oregon, United States | HEFA | planned | 550 | 2028 |
| Haike | Haike | Dongying, Shandong, China | HEFA | operating | 500 | — |
| Jiao | Jiao | Guanyun, Jiangsu, China | HEFA | planned | 500 | — |
| Neste (Rotterdam) | Neste | Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands | HEFA | under construction | 500 | 2026 |
| Cepsa (Palos de la Frontera) | Cepsa | Palos de la Frontera, Spain | HEFA | planned | 499 | 2026 |
| Cepsa (Andalusia) | Cepsa | Andalusia, Spain | HEFA | planned | 499 | 2026 |
| Shell (Rotterdam) | Shell | Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands | HEFA | cancelled | 436 | 2025 |
| Shell (Convent) | Shell | Convent, Louisiana, United States | HEFA | planned | 410 | 2025 |
| Gela | Enilive | Gela, Italy | HEFA | operating | 400 | 2025 |
| VAROPreem Sunpine (Piteå) | VAROPreem | Piteå, Sweden | HEFA | operating | 400 | — |
| Daesan biorefinery (Seosan) | LG-Eni BioRefining Co. Ltd. | Seosan, South Korea | HEFA | under construction | 400 | 2027 |
| 7 Mile Renewable Fuels (Tk'emlups) | Azure Sustainable Fuels | Tk'emlups, Canada | HEFA | planned | 400 | 2028 |
| Zhongneng Yida New Energy (Shijiazhuang) | Zhongneng Yida New Energy | Shijiazhuang, China | HEFA | under construction | 400 | 2027 |
| ECB Group | ECB Group | Villeta, Paraguay | HEFA | planned | 400 | 2024 |
| Cilacap | Cilacap | Pertamina, Indonesia | HEFA | planned | 334 | — |
| BP | BP | Kwinana, Australia | HEFA | paused | 330 | 2026 |
| Chandra Asri / LX International | Chandra Asri / LX International | Cilegon, Banten, Indonesia | HEFA | planned | 300 | — |
| ENEOS/TotalEnergies | ENEOS/TotalEnergies | Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan | HEFA | planned | 300 | 2025 |
| Dansuk | Dansuk | Gusan, South Korea | HEFA | planned | 300 | — |
| FatHopes Energy (Port Klang) | FatHopes Energy | Port Klang, Malaysia | HEFA | planned | 300 | 2029 |
| Green Energy Transformation Inc | Green Energy Transformation Inc | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | HEFA | planned | 288 | — |
| AIC Energy | AIC Energy | Williams County, North Dakota, United States | HEFA | planned | 288 | 2022 |
| Tidewater Renewables (Prince George) | Tidewater Renewables | Prince George, Canada | HEFA | planned | 287 | 2027 |
| TotalEnergies (Grandpuits) | TotalEnergies | Grandpuits, Île-de-France, France | HEFA | operating | 285 | 2026 |
| Cilacap refinery | PT Pertamina | Cilacap, Indonesia | HEFA | operating | 278 | 2029 |
| BSGF | BSGF | Bangkok, Thailand | HEFA | planned | 278 | 2024 |
| Petronas/ENI/Eugiena | Petronas/ENI/Eugiena | Penerang, Johor, Malaysia | HEFA | planned | 275 | 2022 |
| Hanwha TotalEnergies | Hanwha TotalEnergies | Daesan, South Korea | HEFA | planned | 270 | — |
| HVO plant at Sines refinery | Galp | Sines, Portugal | HEFA | planned | 270 | 2025 |
| Indaba Renewable Fuels (Southern California) | Indaba Renewable Fuels | Southern California, California, United States | HEFA | planned | 267 | 2026 |
| Indaba Renewable Fuels (State Midpoint) | Indaba Renewable Fuels | State Midpoint, Missouri, United States | HEFA | planned | 267 | — |
| Oceania Biofuels | Oceania Biofuels | Port of Gladstone, Queensland, Australia | HEFA | planned | 266 | 2023 |
| Petrobas | Petrobas | Cubatao, Brazil | HEFA | planned | 265 | — |
| Vandelay Ventures / Suria Capital | Vandelay Ventures / Suria Capital | Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia | HEFA | planned | 250 | 2025 |
| Varo | Varo | Rotterdam, Netherlands | HEFA | planned | 245 | 2026 |
| Amber Flow Fuels (Riga) | Amber Flow Fuels | Riga, Latvia | HEFA | under construction | 236 | 2027 |
| Zhejiang Jianglan Biotechnology | Zhejiang Jianglan Biotechnology | Zhejiang, China | HEFA | under construction | 225 | 2027 |
| Euniena | Euniena | Tokyo, Japan | HEFA | planned | 221 | — |
| Phillips 66 | Phillips 66 | Rodeo, California, United States | HEFA | operating | 220 | 2024 |
| Brasil BioFuels | Brasil BioFuels | Manaus, Brazil | HEFA | planned | 213 | 2025 |
| Green Sky Capital Management, Al Mana Holding, Vision Invest (Sokhna) | Green Sky Capital Management, Al Mana Holding, Vision Invest | Sokhna, Egypt | HEFA | planned | 200 | 2027 |
| Project Verdant | UMeWorld Inc. | Malaysia | HEFA | planned | 200 | — |
From the SAFxCHANGE capacity board, which holds every plant with its sources; news-found plants not yet settled are left out of totals there.
Connections how this fuel links to the rest of the register
Made at
- Fidelis New Energy · United States 1,772 thousand tonnes a year · planned
- World Energy (Los Angeles) · United States 1,514 thousand tonnes a year · planned
- Blue Point One · United States 1,400 thousand tonnes a year · under construction
- Refuel Energy Inc · Canada 1,255 thousand tonnes a year · operating
- Neste (Singapore) · Singapore 1,000 thousand tonnes a year · operating
- Oriental Energy Company (Maoming) · China 999 thousand tonnes a year · planned
- Acelen · Brazil 800 thousand tonnes a year · under construction
- Azure Sustainable Fuels Corp. (Portage la Prairie) · Canada 800 thousand tonnes a year · operating
Other sustainable aviation fuel
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/fuel/hefa-spk.json.
Sources: FAA Civil Aviation Registry (November 2, 2026) for the engines and aircraft; the FAA airport master file for fuel sold; the FAA's supplemental type certificate listings for the approvals; SAFxCHANGE's record for the plants, deals and the airports named in the news; the sellers' own websites where named. Specifications as published by ASTM International and the U.S. military. The fuel makers' own pages say where their fuel is sold this month; this page is as current as those records.