Gamalux CEO calls for mandatory offtake to boost SAF in Malaysia: reports

Malaysian oils company Gamalux Oils has called on the government to mandate purchases of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for domestic airlines to help scale SAF production.

The suggestion was made by the company’s CEO Usman Ahmed while appearing on Bernama TV’s The Nation programme titled “The Future of Sustainable Aviation Fuel”.

Ahmed said that Malaysia has immense potential to produce SAF in the country to due to abundance of domestic feedstocks.

“We have all the feedstocks such as used cooking oil, palm oil mill effluent, empty fruit bunch oil and spent bleaching earth oil. In my humble opinion, what Malaysia needs is a regulatory policy framework that enables SAF blending and mandates purchase by national airlines at all airports in the country,” Ahmed told the Malaysian news agency Bernama.

Ahmed also pointed out the domestic used cooking oil potential that can be leveraged to produce SAF.

“According to export data from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Malaysia exports approximately 600,000 tonnes of used cooking oil annually, a substantial volume that makes it a viable feedstock for any SAF production facility,” he said.

Petronas, Eni and Euglena are currently in the process of developing a biorefinery in Malaysia to produce SAF and other biofuels.