Tag: KiOR



KiOR shipping cellulosic biofuels; releases Q1 results

Tweet In Texas, KiOR announced a Q1 2013 net loss of $31.3 million, or $0.30 per share, compared to a Q1 2012 loss of $16.8 million. The company reported revenues of $71,000. “Building on the first gallons of cellulosic diesel we shipped in March, we continue to make progress with operations at our Columbus facility,” [...]

May 10, 2013 More

Biofuels Quick Takes: Solazyme, KiOR, E15, Farm Bill

Tweet Solazyme Q1 results. Cowen & Co’s Rob Stone writes: “We expect in-line Q1:13 results…stock performance likely hinges on status of construction at Lestrem and Moema, ramp timing at Clinton, and possibly new oils and new customers. We model positive cash EPS in 2014, and see 70% upside relative to the market in a year. [...]

May 8, 2013 More

“The worldwide production rate of biofuels is expected to reach 62 billion gallons per year by 2023.”

Tweet Today on Twitter: Victaulic: The worldwide production rate of biofuels is expected to reach 62 billion gallons per year by 2023. KiORFuels: [INFOGRAPHIC] Hydrocarbon #biofuels are a reality today. See how it’s done. #FortuneGreen canadianbiomass Scott Thurlow of the CRFA at CANBIO: We are in the #biofuels business today, “but make no mistake – the [...]

May 2, 2013 More

Biofuels Digest Index falls to 69.87 as advanced biofuels, enzymes falter

Tweet The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 0.68 percent to 69.87 as advanced biofuel and enzymes faltered. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) slumped 5.52 percent to $3.08, while KiOR (KIOR) dropped 3.53 percent to $4.65. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) dropped 3.11 percent to $7.80 . Overall, advances led [...]

March 28, 2013 More

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 [...]

March 20, 2013 More

“Organic waste as potential source for more sustainable #biofuels that won’t cause #ILUC.”

Tweet Today on Twitter: KiORFuels KiOR announces that it has now shipped cellulosic diesel product from Columbus, Miss. plant. sungateenergy Clean Edge estimates that the global wind, solar and biofuels market will grow from $248.7 billion in 2012 ArielBrunner Interesting IEEP analysis of organic waste as potential source for more sustainable #biofuels that won’t cause #ILUC GroenWerkt #ea energy [...]

March 20, 2013 More

Kior makes first shipment of cellulosic diesel

Tweet In Mississippi, KiOR the initial shipments of cellulosic diesel from its first commercial-scale facility in Columbus. 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 non-food feedstocks [...]

March 19, 2013 More

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 [...]

February 14, 2013 More

The Compression Spread

Tweet You’ve heard about the crack spread, and the crush spread — as means to value oil refining and crop refining. Let’s think about biomass densification and compression, and in that context, a little about KiOR. You might have heard a little or a lot about KiOR — which is currently commissioning its first commercial-scale [...]

February 8, 2013 More

Biofuels stocks surge as EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard proposals delight investors

Tweet In New York, renewable fuels equities surged on Friday after the EPA issued its proposed 2013 Renewable Fuel Standard mandates – including boosts for corn ethanol, biomass-based diesel and cellulosic biofuels. The Biofuels Digest Index, a basket of public biofuels stocks, jumped 2.07 percent to an 9-month high of 70.09 as shares in Solazyme, [...]

February 4, 2013 More