Global: alternative fuels to diesel - paraffinic diesel

Only South Africa produces and consumes paraffinic fuels, in the form of coal-to-liquid and gas-to-liquid.

In petroleum producing countries including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other member countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, there is almost no adoption of alternative fuels. One exception is in Qatar, where paraffinic diesel produced by a gas-to-liquid process is blended with diesel.

In the past few years, hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), and to a lower extent co-processed vegetable oil, has become a competitor to biodiesel. HVO can be blended in higher quantities that 7% v/v (which is a limit for biodiesel) and the final blend would still comply wi