[Peakoil] 'Big Oil' & other major companies looking into algal oil

[Ben Davies]

Hi all,

Big oil and a couple of other large global companies look to be getting into algal oil production. Some news has recently been filtering about on the net about a couple of ventures:

Shell moves to make diesel fuel from algae - ABC News:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/12/2116206.htm

A related Shell release:
http://www.shell.com/home/content/media-en/news_and_library/press_releases/2007/biofuels_cellana_11122007.html


Chevron has also partnered up with the US National Renewable Energy Laborotory (NREL) on the algal technology front:
http://media.cleantech.com/2019/chevron-nrel-team-up-on-algae-biofuel


And on a tangent, it appears that someone has successfully carried out test flights with a jet running 100% biodiesel:
http://www.greenflightinternational.com/pr.htm


Ben