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Shell Oil puts in $26 mln offer for Abengoa's advanced biofuel plant

Thu, 13th Oct 2016 19:15

By Chris Prentice

NEW YORK, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc's U.S. arm has offered more than $26 million for AbengoaSA's cellulosic ethanol plant in Kansas, according todocuments filed late Wednesday in bankruptcy court.

Shell's initial bid on Abengoa's bankrupt biofuels assetmarks the oil major's latest push into renewable fuels at a timethat the U.S. government has been getting its over decade-oldbiofuels policy back on track following years of regulatorydelays. It also comes amid the breakup of Shell's joint venturewith Saudi Aramco that has broadened the company's U.S. refiningfootprint.

For Abengoa, the potential sale is the latest step to shedits U.S. renewables assets as the company pushes on with effortsto avoid becoming Spain's biggest bankruptcy after more than adecade of heavy borrowing to fuel an expansion into cleanenergy.

Shell has offered the sum as a "stalking horse" bid, whichserves as an initial base bid in the auction process, accordingto the filings. The company asked the U.S. bankruptcy court inKansas to expedite a sale hearing for Friday.

Abengoa has already auctioned off several of itsconventional ethanol assets. Its 25-million-gallon cellulosicplant near Hugoton, Kansas, can turn plant waste into anadvanced biofuel that qualifies for the country's Renewable FuelStandard (RFS) program.

Shell also has a sugar-ethanol joint venture with Brazil'sCosan SA Industria e Comercio and said earlier thisyear it wants to renewables including biofuels and wind tobecome "essential" for the company.

A spokesman for the company declined to comment.

(Reporting by Chris Prentice; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

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