Haru Oni ​​plant starts production of petroleum-free synthetic gasoline in Magalhães, in the extreme south of Chile

Synthetic gasoline without petroleum is the new bet for the future of the global fuel market, aiming to meet the high demand for the product. The resource production plant, called Haru Oni, has already started operations and is working at full steam.

The search for alternatives to fuels with oil remains one of the main objectives of the global energy sector. In recent years, a petroleum-free synthetic gasoline project has begun to take shape, but has not yet been feasible. Last Tuesday (20/12), production of the synthetic fuel began in the extreme south of Chile, in Magalhães, at the plant named Haru Oni. Now, the global market is witnessing an alternative to the high demands for gasoline in the coming years.

Synthetic gasoline project without petroleum was finalized and production of the resource is already happening at the Chilean plant Haru Oni

A few years ago, a project for a possible synthetic gasoline without the use of petroleum had begun to form, but it was only in the experimental stages, without many predictions for the start of mass production.

However, the year 2022 brought great advances to the project and, this week, the Haru Oni ​​plant, located in the extreme south of Chile, began production of the resource, which promises to be the future of the energy market.

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The plant combines electricity, water and CO2 to generate e-Methanol and ultimately carbon-neutral gasoline from electricity.

In this way, the fuels generated at the Haru Oni ​​plant are being called electro fuels or electric fuels (e-Fuels) by the international market.

For the synthesis of petroleum-free gasoline, the base used is hydrogen, produced in an electrolyser with the electrical energy of wind turbines. These technologies were supplied to the Haru Oni ​​plant by the company Siemens.

She is one of the project participants. To make the production of synthetic gasoline feasible, Siemens Energy, Porsche, HIF Global, and others in the energy sector joined together in a consortium.

The car company Porsche had already announced its initiative for the future use of synthetic fuels, and is now part of the production of petroleum-free gasoline.

Haru Oni ​​plant should reach 130 liters of oil-free synthetic fuel production during the pilot phase, throughout 2023

According to the companies in the Haru Oni ​​consortium, the plant should reach a production of 130 liters of synthetic fuel per year by 2023, during the pilot phase of the project.

After that first year, the companies expect production to continue growing exponentially, reaching the mark of 55 million liters per year in the middle of the decade, a great result for the first years of operation.

Two years after that, around the year 2027, expectations for synthetic gasoline production capacity are quite high. The companies project around 550 million liters a year at the Haru Oni ​​plant.

By way of comparison, according to the projection of fuel demand in Brazil by the Energy Research Company (EPE), Brazil will need 38,1 billion liters in 2023 alone.

Thus, the new oil-free synthetic fuel initiative could be a viable alternative to supply part of this demand.

Although it is still in its initial phase, the Haru Oni ​​plant can make a strong contribution to minimizing the impacts of gasoline demand growth over the next decade.