Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2010

KiOR, developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass, will receive a $75-million state-backed loan from Mississippi to bring the first three of its full-scale production facilities to the state. The first site will be built in Columbus, Mississippi and could open by the end of 2011. Clarion Ledger.

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Mississippi Oil Renewable Columbus 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

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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Available Waste Columbus Oil 231

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2013

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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Oil Energy San Diego Columbus 199