Singapore Airlines (SIA), Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Safran have signed the Global SAF Declaration at the Singapore Airshow, committing to promote the acceleration of the development, production and consumption of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The aviation industry plays a part in achieving the Paris Agreement targets, with SAF being one of the key decarbonization levers in the sector. The Global SAF Declaration calls on industry partners from the aerospace, aviation and fuel value chains to jointly work towards the uptake of SAF as an important part of decarbonization with the ambition to ensure a steady ramp up over the next 10 years.
Singapore Airlines is the first airline to sign the declaration, which is open to all airlines, as well as aviation and aerospace organizations, as a complement to their sustainability commitments.
Lee Wen Fen, senior vice president corporate planning, Singapore Airlines, said in a press release, “The Global SAF Declaration reaffirms SIA’s commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. SIA remains firmly committed to our sustainability goals and has been actively advancing the use of SAF in Singapore together with our partners. Beyond SAF, we also use multiple levers to achieve our goals, including achieving higher operational efficiency and investing in new-generation aircraft. We will continue to collaborate with like-minded partners globally to work towards decarbonization and environmental sustainability in our operations.”
Creation of the Global SAF Declaration was supported by Roland Berger, a leading global consultancy in aerospace sustainability. (You can read the full Global SAF Declaration at www.rolls-royce.com.)
Earlier this week, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), SIA and Singapore-headquartered global investment company Temasek selected ExxonMobil as the vendor to supply and deliver SAF as part of a pilot on the use of SAF in Singapore. Under this pilot, SIA, with support from CAAS and Temasek, will purchase blended SAF from ExxonMobil. This product will comprise 1.25 million liters of neat SAF (sustainable fuels that are unmixed or undiluted), which will be supplied by Neste and produced from used cooking oil and waste animal fats, and blended with refined jet fuel at ExxonMobil’s facilities in Singapore.
This blended fuel will be delivered to Changi Airport via the airport’s existing fuel hydrant system by end-July 2022. From the third quarter of 2022, all Singapore Airlines and Scoot flights will use this blended fuel. The use of the SAF over the one-year pilot is expected to reduce about 2,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.
The appointment of ExxonMobil follows a request for proposal on November 10, 2021 to invite select producers and fuel suppliers to develop and execute plans to deliver blended SAF to Singapore Changi Airport. It is a follow-up to an earlier study conducted by the Singapore Government and industry players on the operational and commercial viability of using SAF at Changi Airport.
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