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Tesoro to purchase algae-derived green crude oil from Sapphire Energy

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Under the agreement, Tesoro will purchase crude oil from Sapphire Energy’s Green Crude Farm in Columbus, New Mexico, which recently reached a new milestone: continuous cultivation and crude oil production. This begins the first step of a commercial relationship to process Green Crude oil from Sapphire’s future commercial facilities.

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KiOR signs second offtake agreement for renewable gasoline and diesel blendstocks

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CLE’s purchase of products is contingent on, among other things, satisfaction of product specification criteria and RIN certification of the products as cellulosic biofuels under the US Renewable Fuel Standard. KiOR expects to begin production at its Columbus facility in the second half of 2012. Earlier post.)

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UPS enters into RNG supply agreements with Kinetrex and TruStar; up to 80M gallon equivalents

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The use of RNG is a very important part of UPS’ strategy to increase alternative fuel consumption to be 40% of total ground fuel purchases by 2025. This will have a measurable impact as RNG yields up to a 90% reduction in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions when compared to conventional diesel. Louis and Toledo.

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KiOR signs renewable diesel blendstock supply agreement with FedEx Corporate Services; 1st end-user agreement

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Under the agreement, KiOR may supply renewable diesel blendstocks for purchase by affiliates of FedEx Corporate Services, Inc. from KiOR’s first commercial production facility in Columbus, MS, which is scheduled to commence production in the second half of 2012. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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KiOR and Catchlight Energy sign feedstock supply agreement

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developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass, and Catchlight Energy LLC (CLE), a 50-50 joint venture between subsidiaries of Chevron Corporation and Weyerhaeuser Company focused on providing liquid transportation fuels from sustainable forest-based resources, have signed a feedstock supply agreement.

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