Story ID: 565
Air BP Introduces New Environmental Service
By: Curt Epstein
Caption: Here in Geneva, the global fuel provider is rolling out an enhanced suite of services aimed at reducing industry carbon emissions.
Word Count: 375
Global aviation fuel provider Air BP is using its appearance here at EBACE as a platform to launch its new Environmental Solutions offering. With a goal of helping reduce carbon emissions throughout the industry, the petroleum giant is taking a “reduce, replace, neutralize” approach to carbon management, which it hopes to demonstrate to showgoers in Geneva.

While the UK-based company, which has been providing aviation fueling for nearly a century, has offered environmentally friendly services in the past, it notes this is the first time that they have been combined into one product. According to Air BP, the package will offer operators, airports and FBOs “tailor-made” solutions that will allow them to achieve reductions in carbon emissions.

The program includes Air BP Biojet fuel, which offers a minimum carbon emission of 35 percent, and is now available via the main hydrant system at Oslo Airport in Norway. A suite of tools such as Stop-Start technology, waste management, electric vehicles and state-of-the-art flow switches will replace carbon-creating systems, while a carbon reduction and management program, delivered in partnership with BP Target Neutral will allow industry members to calculate and offset their emissions through rigorously selected environmental projects. The company’s emissions trading department can help customers achieve compliance with carbon cap and trade schemes, permitting cost certainty through future hedging.

One of the world’s largest aviation fuel suppliers, Air BP currently supplies more than 7 billion gallons of Jet A and avgas to its customers annually, and through its direct operations fuels more than 6,000 flights a day at over 700 locations globally.

“Air BP is committed to the aviation industry’s efforts to achieve its ambitious environmental targets,” said Norbert Kamp, the company’s chief commercial officer. The launch of the Environmental Solutions offer here at EBACE demonstrates that Air BP is focused on supporting the business aviation sector in meeting the target of a 50 percent reduction in total emissions by 2050, relative to 2015.”

As for its own operations, the company expects to achieve carbon neutral status by this summer. During the show, visitors to the Air BP exhibit (Booth S131) can have the carbon emissions generated from their travel to Geneva calculated and offset for free.