Our Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Program enables organizations to reduce aviation-related emissions through verified environmental attributes. By participating, companies can support the growth of lower-carbon aviation solutions and take meaningful action toward their climate goals.
The P66 SAF Program gives companies a simple way to purchase, manage, and track SAF Environmental Attributes. Here’s what you can do inside the platform:
Get automated emission estimates based on industry standards.
Purchase SAF Environmental Attributes that help accelerate the adoption of lower-carbon aviation fuel.
Track the attributes you’ve acquired and manage your sustainability activity in one secure place.
Access documentation, certificates, and programme insights to support your reporting needs.
Through this program, companies can take direct action to address Scope 3 aviation emissions and play a key role in scaling sustainable aviation fuel.
Book and Claim allows companies to access the environmental benefits of SAF without requiring physical supply to their flight route.
Purchase SAF Environmental Attributes through the program portal.
Phillips 66 books an equivalent amount of SAF into the aviation fuel system.
You receive verified documentation that supports Scope 3 emissions reporting.
Reduced lifecycle emissions
Supports corporate climate targets
Drives investment in cleaner aviation
Produced from renewable feedstocks
Compatible with existing aircraft and infrastructure
Enables credible sustainability reporting
Want to learn more about how the SAF Program can support your sustainability strategy? Get in touch with our team.
A greenhouse gas emissions footprint, also informally referred to as a carbon footprint, is an estimation of all of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that result from daily activities, transactions, or operations. GHG emissions trap heat in the atmosphere, and they include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gasses. The provides guidance on how corporations should quantify and report on emissions. The GHG Protocol distinguishes between three different categories of emissions:
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), also known as alternative jet fuel, is the industry term used to describe non-conventional jet fuels that are derived from renewable resources, known as feedstocks. Unlike traditional jet fuel, which is made from fossil fuels, SAF uses alternative feedstocks and is produced through various technologies, also known as processing pathways. SAF is a drop-in fuel substitution, meaning it can be blended with conventional jet fuel in current aircraft engines without modifications. This substitution offers an immediate solution for helping to reduce lifecycle emissions from aviation. SAF has the potential to provide a lifecycle emissions reduction of up to 80% compared to the traditional jet fuel it replaces. SAF generally meets several criteria:
SAF is produced using conversion technologies, which transform a range of feedstocks into fuel that can be used in airplanes. These conversation technologies are also referred to as processing pathways. The most common processing pathway today is Hydrotreated Esters and Fatty Acids (HEFA), which refines oils, waste, and fats into SAF using a hydrogen-infused process. Other pathways include Fischer-Tropsch (FT) and Alcohol-to-Jet (AtJ) processes, which use catalytic chemical reactions. In addition, SAF can be produced without extensive infrastructural changes via co-processing, which is the simultaneous processing of fuels using non-petroleum and petroleum feedstocks at existing fuel refineries. As SAF development and adoption grows, feedstocks and production technologies will evolve. Future advancements could include eSAF, created by capturing atmospheric carbon and converting it into fuel.
Today, all commercially produced SAF on the market leverages biogenic feedstocks, also known as biomass. Biogenic feedstocks are renewable organic materials from plants and animals – including forestry and agricultural residues, municipal solid waste, used cooking oil, etc. In contrast, the production of conventional jet fuel requires the extraction of fossil fuel, resulting in a release of carbon that has been sequestered in the ground for millions of years. When burned, SAF and conventional jet fuel produce similar levels of emissions, but the emissions generated from SAF are already part of the carbon cycle (because they are made of biomass) and not extracted specifically for creating aviation fuel. This results in reduction of emissions when using SAF compared to conventional jet fuel when considered over the lifecycle of the fuel.
Due to the limited amount of SAF available in the market today (SAF makes up of global jet fuel), SAF production, distribution, and refueling infrastructure are not yet widespread. Because of this, the sector has taken to using a “book and claim” chain of custody model. Through the book and claim model, you can purchase SAF scope 3 environmental attributes that are associated with the use of physical SAF. This chain of custody model separates the physical fuel from its environmental benefit, and allows those environmental benefits – known as environmental attributes – to be tracked, purchased, and claimed without the buyer needing to be connected directly to the physical fuel supply chain. The purchase of these environmental attributes provides a buyer with a claim to the climate benefit associated with a given volume of physical SAF, while simultaneously helping to cover the cost difference between SAF and conventional jet fuels. Through this process, you contribute to demonstrating demand for a more sustainable aviation sector and to helping to lower the current cost barrier of SAF.