OriginOil, DOE to Develop Algae Crude Conversion for Oil Refineries
OriginOil, Inc. has announced its plans to co-develop an integrated system with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for direct conversion of raw algae into a renewable crude…
OriginOil Enters JV to Develop Biorefineries for DoD Biofuels Programs
OriginOil, Inc has announced it has co-founded a new joint venture (JV), to develop biorefineries serving U.S. and NATO military requirements for alternative fuels. The JV, Future Energy Solutions Unlimited, Inc…
OriginOil Ships First SSE Production System
Original Oil has announced that it has shipped its first commercial-grade Single Step Extraction (SSE) system, the sale of which had been announced earlier this year, to support MBD Energy’s…
OriginOil Secures First Institutional Financing
OriginOil, Inc. has announced it has entered into a definitive convertible notes purchase agreement with certain institutional investors, for an aggregate purchase price of $1.0 million…
Algae Business: Small Scale Algae—An Alternate Vision
Most algae production is industrial in scale. Take MBD Energy’s carbon capture project, designed to attack the vast CO2 emissions of Australia’s brown coal power plants. Each power plant emits ten million tons…
French Algae Projects for OriginOil JV
OriginOil, Inc. has announced that Ennesys, its joint venture partner in France, is working with large institutions to develop two separate large-scale algae projects. “Europe and France have made…
Algae Predator Screen Developed by OriginOil
OriginOil, Inc. has filed their 12th patent application for Algae Screen™, a process that keeps algae healthy and productive by selectively eliminating microscopic predators, without the use of chemicals…
OriginOil Moving into Commercialization Phase
OriginOil, Inc. has announced its shift from the development phase to the commercialization phase and has recruited a veteran of technology projects to fast-track the commercialization process…
OriginOil to Work with Mexico on Algae Development
OriginOil, Inc., of Los Angeles, CA, has agreed to participate in a pilot scale algae project to be funded by the Mexican government. The project will demonstrate industrial algae production, paving the way…
OriginOil to Begin Licensing Technology for Industrial Algae Applications
OriginOil, of Los Angeles, CA, has adjusted its business model to focus on embedding the ‘midstream’ of algae harvesting and extraction technology into industrial algae systems. OriginOil will…
Defeat of CA Proposition 23 a “Triumph”
On November 2, California voters rejected proposed Proposition 23, which would have suspended AB32’s emissions standards until unemployment drops. In response Riggs Eckelberry…
A.I.M. Interview: OriginOil’s Riggs Eckelberry on CA Prop. 23
California’s clean energy initiatives and businesses are at a crossroads, pending the outcome of Proposition 23 on the November ballot. Should the proposition succeed, it would suspend California’s…
OriginOil Launches Expert Services Division
OriginOil, Inc. has announced its launch of algae expert services at a recent gathering of the National Algae Association, highlighted in videos posted at “www.originoil.com/NAA2010”…
Riggs Eckelberry on CNN
OriginOil’s Single-Step Extraction reduces complex harvesting processes to a single, cost-effective step…
A.I.M. Interview: OriginOil’s Brian Goodall
When senior executives move from the petroleum industry into the biofuels sector, there is a certain satisfaction that comes with them into this new field. Their satisfaction, because they are…
AIM Interview: Riggs Eckelberry (Part 3)
We are going to see a massive transfer of energy production from petroleum to algae, which is a huge paradigm shift from a few big producers to everybody being a producer, and that paradigm shift will…
AIM Interview: OriginOil’s Riggs Eckelberry Interview (Part 2)
Pure madness! My brother and co-founder, Nicholas, really had a dream to get into environmental technologies in the early 90s, and it wasn’t ready to happen. I was in high tech and just got carried…
AIM Interview: OriginOil’s Riggs Eckelberry Interview (Part 1)
If there is a poster boy for algae’s fabulous future, it’s currently Riggs Eckelberry. Coming from a strong executive background guiding dotcoms through the early internet years, Riggs established OriginOil…
OriginOil
OriginOil, Inc., of Los Angeles, CA, has agreed to partner with the Research Institute of Tsukuba Bio-Tech (RITB), recently approved for funding to develop algae to jet fuel applications by Japan Science & Technology Agency (JST). Headed by Tsukuba University professor emeritus and algae…
