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How to subscribeApril 2007: Ethanol Production and Demand
Continuing the trend of strong production figures, the
U.S. ethanol industry produced 391,000 barrels per day (b/d) in April. That is an annualized rate of nearly 6 billion gallons. In addition, it is an increase of 102,000 b/d over April 2006.
Ethanol demand remained constant at 410,000 b/d in April as did
U.S. fuel ethanol imports, at 35 million gallons for the month.
The RFA released the following statistics:
April 2007 Statistics(mg = million gallons; b/d = barrels per day)Â
| Fuel Ethanol Production | 492.1 mg | 391,000 b/d |
| Fuel Ethanol Stocks | 369.2 mg | 21.5 days of reserve |
| Fuel Ethanol Exports | 0.0mg^ | n/a |
| Fuel Ethanol Imports | 35.3 mg* | n/a |
*Source:Â
U.S. International Trade Commission
Jim Jordan and Associates
Currently, 121 ethanol biorefineries nationwide have a capacity to produce more than 6.3 billion gallons annually. Additionally, 75 biorefineries are under construction and 7 are expanding which will add more than 6.2 billion gallons of new production capacity by early 2009.