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2025

Global Sustainable Aviation Fuel Report

Major Players


Year of Establishiment 1998

Privately Traded

Aeadquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

World Energy is one of the world’s first producers of sustainable aviation fuel and has been producing renewable fuels for over 25 years.

Key Facts

  • SAF Production Capacity:
    38 million gallons per year (2019)
  • SAF Production Target-:
    250 million gallons annually by 2024 and 1 billion gallons annually by 2030
  • Revenue:
  • EBITDA:

Current and Planned SAF Investments

n 2022, World Energy collaborated with Air Products to construct and expand World Energy’s SAF production and distribution Hub in Paramount, California, with an investment of $2 billion to increase its total capacity to 340 million gallons annually.

Tie-Ups

  • Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.
    Nov 2023: Partnered to complete the world’s first transatlantic flight using 100% SAF with no added aromatics or other impurities, marking a historic success.
  • DHL Express
    Oct 2023: Inked a 7-year strategic contract to purchase ~668 million litres of SAF via SAF certificates (SAFc) till 2030 to accelerate the decarbonization of aviation logistics.
  • Microsoft
    Oct 2023: Partnered for a first-ever 10-year purchase contract for replacing about 43.7 million gallons of petroleum jet fuel with SAF through SAFc to decarbonize Microsoft’s corporate air travel and supply chain cargo.
  • World Fuel Services
    May 2023: Entered a 6-year purchase partnership for 27 million gallons of SAF.
  • Blue Biofuels
    May 2023: Inked an MOU for the offtake of ethanol and SAF, as well as all its finished products.
  • Etihad Airways
    Nov 2022: Signed a notable MOU to power the first net-zero flight using SAF via a Book & Claim system to decarbonize flights via in-sector emissions reductions.
  • Shell
    Jan 2020: Partnered to increase the supply of SAF to the Lufthansa Group for flights in San Francisco International Airport (SFO).

Financiers / Investors

Air Products, and Canadian investor Halifax.

Other Information

In 2022, World Energy announced constructing its second SAF facility at its current Houston ship channel production and distribution hub to produce an additional 250 million gallons of SAF annually by 2025.