Thursday, July 14, 2011

News In Brief, Wednesday July 14th, 2011

Big Build in Brazil.
LS9 announces plans to build Brazil’s largest bio-fuels and bio-chemicals plant, and continues its synthetic hydrocarbon research partnership with Chevron.  

Florida-based Petroalgae finds a Shell.
Petroalgae and CRI Catalyst Company LP (part of the Shell group) establish a partnership to provide feedstocks for drop-in fuels.  

OriginOil gets more green: capital, not algae (they’ve got plenty of that)
A little under a year after its first CO2 to algae deal with Australian company MBD Energy Limited was announced, Californian algae producer Origin Oil gets its first round of institutional financing.  

AGQM grants “no harm” status to IFT’s bio-diesel additives (no word yet on Col. Klink’s violin-playing). 
The Association for the Quality of Bio-diesel (AGQM) a German bio-diesel quality assurance organization (and whose standards are among the most respected worldwide in the bio-diesel community)  grants “No-Harm and Efficiency” certification status to International Fuel Technologies' bio-diesel additives.

The French Connection
Global Bioenergies, a French synthetic biology company, gets and additional  €475,000 ($673,645) from the French innovation agency OSEO, just a month after closing a successful IPO on the NSYE Alternext stock market.

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