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Singapore Airlines (SIA) will offtake up to 4,800 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) over a three-year term from climate technology firm Aether Fuels planned Project Beacon plant in Singapore.
Located at Aster Chemicals and Energy’s Pulau Bukom refinery, Project Beacon is expected to produce 2,000 tonnes of SAF annually, with commercial operations targeted for 2028.
SAF deliveries to SIA will commence in the same year.
The facility is designed to use the Aether Aurora technology platform to convert industrial waste gas and biomethane into Corsia-certified SAF.
SIA is believed to be the first airline to secure SAF offtake from Project Beacon.
In September, Aether Fuels its integrated SAF technology platform at the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Dhaval Shah, Chief Technology Officer at Aether Fuels, said the data from the demonstration will inform and de-risk the design of Project Beacon.
In May, the company with Singapore-based FlyORO Technologies to explore the development of a SAF supply chain.
Aether Fuels plans to commission its first large-scale commercial SAF plant in 2031. The company is targeting a production capacity at least 10 times the scale of Project Beacon.
