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USDA announces availability of $181M to support development of advanced biofuels projects

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The Biorefinery Assistance Program was created through the 2008 Farm Bill and is administered by USDA Rural Development. Sapphire Energy’s “Green Crude Farm” in Columbus, N.M., It provides loan guarantees to viable commercial-scale facilities to develop new and emerging technologies for advanced biofuels.

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Sapphire Energy and Phillips 66 parter on co-processing of algae crude oil with conventional crude

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The goal is to complete fuel certifications to ready Sapphire Energy’s renewable crude oil for wide-scale oil refining. This new relationship with Sapphire Energy complements other Phillips 66 renewable fuels collaborations in academia and other sectors to convert a range of sustainable feedstocks into transportation fuels.

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