Verenium sells cellulosic biofuels business to BP

Verenium, a company engaged in the development and commercialization of industrial enzyme solutions, has sold its cellulosic biofuels business to BP Biofuels North America for $98.3m. ...

Published: 02-Sep-2010

AdvanceBio develops new sugar-based fuel ethanol production process

AdvanceBio, a biofuel technology company, has developed a new fuel ethanol process that utilizes sugars derived from sugarcane, sweet sorghum, sugar beet and other similar crops as feedstock for the p...

Published: 01-Sep-2010

Enerkem begins construction of Edmonton waste-to-biofuels facility

Enerkem, a waste-to-biofuels company, breaks ground on C$80m municipal waste-to-biofuels facility in partnership with the city of Edmonton and the government of Alberta. ...

Published: 01-Sep-2010

Mascoma buys SunOpta BioProcess

Mascoma Corporation, a US based biofuels company, has acquired Canada-based SunOpta BioProcess (SBI). ...

Published: 01-Sep-2010

KiOR to build five biofuel plants in Mississippi

KiOR, a next-generation energy company, has entered into an agreement with the State of Mississippi to build five commercial-scale renewable crude oil production facilities in return for a State assis...

Published: 31-Aug-2010

Shell, Cosan to form JV for biofuels, power

Royal Dutch Shell and Brazil-based Cosan have signed a joint venture agreement to produce and commercialize ethanol and power based on sugar cane in Brazil. ...

Published: 25-Aug-2010

Life Technologies, SG Biofuels complete sequence of Jatropha genome

Life Technologies, a provider of life science solutions, and bioenergy crop company SG Biofuels have completed sequencing the Jatropha curcas genome to 100x coverage, using Life's SOLiD 4.0 System. ...

Published: 24-Aug-2010

All Fuels & Energy extends exclusivity period to buy ethanol plant

All Fuels & Energy has secured a thirty-day extension under its existing letter of intent (LOI) to acquire an operating ethanol plant located in the Midwest US. ...

Published: 19-Aug-2010

Range Fuels biofuel plant produces cellulosic methanol from non-food biomass

Range Fuels, a company that produces low-carbon biofuels and renewable power, has said that the initial phase of its commercial cellulosic biofuels plant near Soperton, Georgia has produced cellulosic...

Published: 18-Aug-2010

Maple signs ethanol off-take agreement with Mitsui

Ireland-based Maple Energy has entered into an agreement with a subsidiary of Mitsui & Co to sell ethanol produced from its project located in the Piura Region on the northwest coast of Peru. ...

Published: 17-Aug-2010

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