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Phillips 66 SAF Market Growth Blueprint
Phillips 66 Aviation on November 18, 2025 laid out a bold roadmap to expand the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) market.
In a briefing released on November 18, 2025, Phillips 66 Aviation described a multi‑year strategy to grow the SAF market across Western airlines and airports. The plan emphasizes industry collaboration, targeted investment and technology upgrades to speed adoption of sustainable aviation fuel while supporting broader decarbonization targets.
The company frames the blueprint as a facilitator role: working with airlines, airports and fuel suppliers to increase supply, simplify logistics and reduce cost barriers. Phillips 66 says the approach is designed to align with airline sustainability commitments and airport fuel‑supply planning without prescribing specific vendor or operator deals.
How the SAF market expansion will work
The blueprint highlights three core pillars—collaboration, innovation and capital—that Phillips 66 believes are essential to scale SAF use. Collaboration covers contract structures and shared infrastructure; innovation includes feedstock and processing upgrades; capital is intended to de‑risk early projects and attract private investment.
- Collaboration: work with airlines and airports to build demand signals and shared refuelling points for the SAF market.
- Technology: accelerate biorefining and blending upgrades to increase compatible fuel volumes.
- Investment: provide early capital to projects that lower SAF production costs and improve supply chain reliability.
Phillips 66 frames the effort as long‑term: increasing SAF uptake is a systems challenge that needs coordinated policy, commercial offtakes and industrial upgrades. The company positions itself as a supply‑chain partner rather than a single‑solution provider, aiming to help Western carriers meet emissions targets while maintaining operational performance.
For airlines and airports tracking decarbonization timelines, the blueprint signals that major downstream energy firms intend to be active players in SAF scale‑up. The company’s plan is notable for combining corporate investment with calls for industrywide cooperation to unlock larger SAF volumes sooner.
