Global Biogas News Round-Up | October 2026
Curated by the World Biogas Association, the Global Biogas News Round-Up brings you the latest and most important stories from the world of biogas.
Biogas news in a nutshell
Singapore opens pathways to import biomethane and develop infrastructure for biomethane as maritime fuel. Italy budgets for ‘the promotion of biomethane and the conversion of biogas installations’ as it targets energy security. EU Energy and Housing Minister calls biomethane a ‘strategic asset’ for energy security. Colombia and Bolivia set out frameworks for biogas, the UAE launches a biogas feasibility study, and the provincial government of Sindh in Pakistan proposes a US$30 million biogas initiative. Meanwhile advanced biogas processing continues to open new opportunities for biogas producers. In America a pilot scheme successfully produces sustainable aviation fuel and renewable naphtha from dairy farm biogas, while in Canada biogas and digestate are created from wood residues.
Links to top stories
Swiss/Japanese Kanadevia Inova acquires Indian engineering company Petrokens Engineering & Services to support waste-to-X engineering and sourcing capabilities, to cut costs, improve accessibility to waste feedstock for biomethane and expand circular solutions into new markets such as India and the wider Asia-Pacific. Read more>
Bolivia establishes a regulatory framework for producers to make biogas and biomethane for their own consumption, prohibiting injection into the grid but allowing the export of surplus electricity from CHP plants. Read more>
A subsidiary of Indonesian state-owned energy firm PLN starts using biomethane-derived compressed natural gas at its Belawan gas-fired power plant in North Sumatra. Read more>
Shell Singapore and Singapore LNG (SLNG) have imported the country’s first ISCC EU-certified bio-LNG cargo, sourced from the US, marking a step forward in the city-state’s efforts to develop low-carbon gas supply chains. Read more>
Health tech group Bracco Imaging and Genera New Energy inaugurate a biomethane plant in Tuscany, Italy, to support industrial emissions reduction, with Bracca securing the green attributes of the green gas under a long-term biomethane purchase agreement. Read more>
US renewable fuels company Agra Energy and technology partner HYCO1 successfully demonstrate the production of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable naphtha from dairy farm biogas, using Fischer-Tropsch synthesis at the test facility in Wisconsin. Read more>
India’s Petronet LNG and Gruner Renewable Energy have formed a 50:50 joint venture to develop a portfolio of 10 compressed biogas plants across India, making an initial investment of about ₹1,200 crore (US$126.5 million). Read more>
Singapore appoints three power generation companies, Keppel Energy, Sembcorp Utilities and Tuas Power Generation, to import up to 300MW of biomethane from regional and international sources, as part of a 15-year regulatory sandbox to explore biomethane as a decarbonisation pathway. Read more>
The Sindh government in Pakistan is proposing a $30 million biogas development project, to establish five centralised facilities to produce green gas and natural fertiliser across the province in Hyderabad, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas, Larkana and Shaheed Benazirabad. Read more>
Toyota Tsusho, Toho Gas and Sebigas Cótica launch a special purpose company (SPC) and bring a biogas pilot plant online in Brazil in 2028 under a subsidy programme from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Read more>
Norwegian biogas developer Vireo in collaboration with Bright Renewables and Nordsol is set to commission a 90 GWh per year bio-LNG plant in Hardanger early in 2027, supplying Gasum with fuel produced from poultry manure and salmon processing residues. Read more>
EU Energy and Housing Minister calls biomethane a ‘strategic asset’ for energy security, telling the Biomethane Week conference in Brussels that the continent “will still need molecules” and that biogas and biomethane are part of the solution. Read more>
3i Infrastructure-backed Future Biogas has acquired the remaining 49% stake in a portfolio of six UK gas-to-grid anaerobic digestion facilities from Foresight Environmental Infrastructure for £104m (€124m). Read more>
Scientists from Canada’s Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup and the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) have successfully used anaerobic digestion in the lab to produce green energy and fertiliser from abandoned wood residue. Read more>
French shipping company CMA-CGM and Engie have entered a joint venture to build a biogas plant in the port of Le Havre, France, to produce bio-LNG maritime fuel. Read more>
Colombia’s House of Representatives give the go-ahead for guidelines to be developed to promote the production and use of biogas and biomethane and ‘open new opportunities for the agriculture and energy sectors’. Read more>
Suez is developing 600 collection points and a processing plant to capture and prepare food waste for biogas from the most urbanised neighbourhoods of Tours-Métropole, France, where garden composting is not an option. Read more>
French bio-cluster Genopole has selected two start-ups focused on developing ‘smart’ AI for biogas among this year’s laureates, enabling access to development support and market access. Read more>
France has detailed a schedule for the surrender of biomethane production certificates out to 2044, subject to review in 2032, welcomed as a boost to investor confidence by the Renewable Energy Union. Read more>
Hungarian multinational oil and gas company MOL Group invests US$8.24 million to develop its first biomethane plant in Szarvas, Hungary, part of its long-term strategy to expand the company’s ‘green energy portfolio and strengthen energy security’. Read more>
Emirates Biotech and United Arab Emirates University have launched a joint research project to design, build and operate the UAE’s first integrated biogas plant. Read more>
The Rijn en IJssel Water Board has received a subsidy of €7.8 million from the Netherlands province of Gelderland for a green gas plant in Duiven to reduce nitrogen emissions and contribute to nature restoration. Read more>
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore has signed a memorandum of understanding with shippers CMA CGM and Singapore LNG Corporation to examine the use of liquefied biomethane as a marine fuel, as it expands its marine fuel infrastructure to accommodate a wider range of alternative fuels. Read more>
Metacon’s Greek subsidiary has received €188,018 EU funding for its participation in the EU PUREHY2+ project, targeting an integrated system solution to enable biogas producers to add high-purity hydrogen production while capturing carbon dioxide on site. Read more>
An alliance is forged between expert biogas developer ENSO and oil and gas distributor Moeve in Spain, to offer decarbonisation options to industry and B2B customers, ‘a key driver of competitiveness’. Read more>
Fascinating insight from the Chair of the Board of the Ukraine Biogas Association into what is required to support the country in transition to becoming an EU supplier of biomethane. Read more>
Energy security is a key plank of Italy’s draft €23.5 billion budget plan for 2027, supporting ‘the promotion of biomethane and the conversion of biogas installations.’ Read more>
A £20 million biogas plant capable of processing more than 50,000 tonnes of food waste a year has opened at Eco Sustainable Solutions’ Parley site in the UK – producing enough green gas to heat around 7,000 homes. Read more>