Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. This release updates 10 guides for the latest developments through Q1 2013. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, latest news, awards, and Biofuels Digest feature stories; 3 top milestones for […]
Address: 3115 Merryfield Row San Diego, CA 92121 Year founded 2007 Company description: San Diego-based Sapphire Energy is pioneering an entirely new industry – Green Crude Production – with the potential to profoundly change America’s energy and petrochemical landscape for the better. Sapphire’s products and processes in this category differ significantly from other forms of […]
In August, Sapphire Energy announced that the first phase of its Green Crude Farm, the world’s first commercial demonstration algae-to-energy facility, is now operational in Columbus. Construction of this first phase, which began on June 1, 2011, was completed on time and on budget. As locations go, Columbus, New Mexico is hard to find but […]
In California, Sapphire Energy appointed Jeff Webster as Chief Operating Officer He was previously COO at Solazyme. More on the story.
In California, Sapphire Energy and Institute for Systems Biology announced a strategic partnership to significantly increase oil yield and improving resistance to crop predators and environmental factors in order to further the advancement of commercialized algae biofuel production. “Sapphire is dealing with one of the most complicated problems known to humans: how to make fuel from […]
Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, 3 top milestones for 2010-12 and projected for 2012-14, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing technology, capacity, […]
Address: 3115 Merryfield Row San Diego, CA 92121 Year founded 2007 Company description: San Diego-based Sapphire Energy is pioneering an entirely new industry – Green Crude Production – with the potential to profoundly change America’s energy and petrochemical landscape for the better. Sapphire’s products and processes in this category differ significantly from other forms of […]
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 in […]
Growing crude oil as a crop – Sapphire Energy and its Green Crude Farm – can it be the sunlight in your universe and change the world? What does it look like? How does it work? The Digest does the show and tell. As locations go, Columbus, New Mexico is hard to find but is a […]
What is a Green Crude Farm, how does it displace petroleum via algae, and how does it operate? Today, the Digest goes in-depth with the world’s most unique farming system, cultivating a direct petroleum substitute as a crop. In New Mexico, Sapphire Energy announced that the first phase of its Green Crude Farm, the world’s […]
