Search Results for 'catchlight'
Warning issued on risks of “Carbon Bubble”
Tweet This past week, we have been relaying reports, originally from Bloomberg and now including crowdsourced reaction on the scale-back of the Catchlight Energy project. Reporting has focused on the 5-10 percent return on capital which was expected for the Catchlight drop-in fuels project, using solvent liquefaction, compared to the average 17 percent returns achieved [...]
“Who killed $2.18 gasoline?” Reaction from the field
Tweet Readers inundate the Digest with old slide shows, perspective, anecdotes. On Friday morning, the Digest published “Who killed $2.18 gasoline?”, reviewing an explosive investigative report from Bloomberg that itself looked at low-cost, low-carbon fuels technology developed by Catchlight Energy. “They say [Chevron is] pushing back against the California rule because it demands technology that [...]
Who killed $2.18 gasoline?
Tweet An explosive report from Bloomberg alleges that a pathway to $2.18 per gallon gasoline was developed at Chevron-Weyerhaeuser owned Catchlight Energy. Yet, the project was sidelined. Why? Was the project really saddled with a threshold ROI 10 percent above Chevron’s annual average return on capital? The Bloomberg investigative team of Ben Elgin & Peter [...]
KiOR now shipping world’s first cellulosic diesel from its first commercial plant
Tweet In Texas, KiOR announced the initial shipments of cellulosic diesel from its first commercial-scale facility in Columbus, Mississippi. KiOR’s facility uses pine wood chips previously feeding a shut down paper mill at Columbus and produces gasoline and diesel, the first renewable hydrocarbon fuels in the U.S. manufactured at commercial scale and derived solely from [...]
Who’s Your Valentine? Biofuels Digest’s Ardent 50
Tweet Gevo, KiOR top the Ardent 50 rankings at biofuelsdigest.com — the most-intensively researched companies— analyzing page views from more than 800,000 site visits. In Florida, Gevo and KiOR took Valentines Day honors by topping the Ardent 50 rankings, as Biofuels Digest published the 50 Most searched companies at biofuelsdigest.com for 2012-13. In topping this [...]
The top 150 companies in Bioenergy: the complete Digest rankings results
Tweet In Florida, Biofuels Digest released the top 150 rankings in its 2012-13 “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” polls. 1 Solazyme 2 KiOR 3 LanzaTech 4 Novozymes 5 POET 6 DuPont Industrial Biosciences (Genencor) 7 Gevo 8 Sapphire Energy 9 Joule Unlimited 10 ZeaChem 11 Honeywell’s UOP 12 BP Biofuels 13 LS9 14 Chemtex / [...]
The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2012-13 are announced
Tweet In California, Renewable oils developer Solazyme took the #1 spot in the 2012-13 “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” rankings, announced today by Biofuels Digest at Advanced Biofuels Markets in San Francisco. KiOR (#2), LanzaTech (#3), Novozymes (#4), POET (#5), DuPont Industrial Biosciences (#6), Gevo (#7), Sapphire Energy (#8), Joule Unlimited (#9), and ZeaChem (#10) [...]
Virent: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide
Tweet Address: 3571 Anderson Street Madison, WI 53704 Year Founded: 2002 Company description: Virent is in the business of replacing crude oil by applying clever chemistry to create the fuels and chemicals the world demands using a wide range of naturally-occurring, renewable resources. Virent’s patented technology features catalytic chemistry to convert plant-based sugars into a [...]
Gevo takes the lead in Biofuels Digest’s Hot 50 balloting
Tweet In Florida, Biofuels Digest subscribers have put Gevo into the lead in 2012-13 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy subscriber balloting. Last year’s winner, Solazyme, dipped to second. Novozymes continues to show a lot of strength in reader voting and placed #3 in votes so far. Meanwhile, LanzaTech has made it all the way to [...]
Solazyme maintains lead in early Hot 50 voting; Amyris, LanzaTech, Sapphire Energy make a move
Tweet In Florida, Biofuels Digest subscribers have kept Solazyme in the lead in 2012-13 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy balloting, with last year’s winner maintaining a small lead over last year’s #3, Gevo. Amyris, which had dipped to #5, has managed to get back to #4, while Novozymes continues to show a lot of strength [...]
