Japanese energy giant Cosmo Oil Marketing announced that it supplied its first batch of domestically-produced sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s “Blue Impulse” at Kansai International Airport.
The company produced SAF within the Cosmo Oil Sakai Refinery in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture.
Cosmo said the Blue Impulse demonstration flight will help promote the introduction of SAF, and is expected to be an opportunity to further popularize and expand SAF.
Cosmo’s SAF project was adopted as a subsidy project for “Establishment of a supply chain model for SAF production using domestic waste edible oil as a raw material” by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in 2021.
This is the first time SAF is domestically produced on a large scale in Japan. SAF produced by the company has obtained the international certification systems for sustainable products, “ISCC CORSIA Certification” and “ISCC EU Certification”.
The SAF was produced by Saffaire Sky Energy – a joint venture between three companies including Cosmo Oil, JGC Holdings Corporation and Revo International.
Earlier in March, Cosmo Oil Marketing said that it has signed a sales contract for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with Finland’s flag carrier Finnair.
