20 March 2013
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Sapphire Energy, Inc.
has entered into a commercial agreement with
Tesoro Refining and Marketing, LLC.,
a subsidiary of Tesoro Corporation.
Under the agreement, Tesoro will purchase
crude oil (Green Crude, Crude from Algae)
from Sapphire Energy' Green Crude Farm
in Columbus, New Mexico, USA.
which recently reached a milestone :
continuous cultivation and crude oil production.
This begins the first step of commercial relationship
to process green crude oil from
Sapphire's future commercial facilities.
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About Green Crude
Sapphire Energy is now producing crude oil daily from
algae biomass cultivated and harvested
at the company's Green Crude Farm in
Columbus, New Mexico, USA.
Oil extraction is conducted through a patented method
for converting wet algae into crude oil,
which enables algae to be processed without the need for
a timely and costly drying step.
Wet Extraction technology for algae-based crude oil
has been considered one of the biggest challenge to
commercialization.
The entire algae cell is now used in oil production,
greatly improving yield, Furthermore
The process is scalable, and has proven to be effective
with a wide range of algae strains.
In initial testing by Sapphire Energy, Green Crude oil was
refined into on-spec ASTM 975 Diesel fuel,
providing its compatibility with the existing
* network pipelines,
* refineries and
* transport systems.
Moving forwards, The company plans to grow production
significantly to further expands its commercial demonstration
and begin the transitions towards commercial scale production.
Benefits of Green Crude
* Environmental and sustainable
* Efficient
* Low carbon impact
- Every gallon of algae crude oil takes in 13 to 14 kgs of CO2
- Sapphire's Green crude oil has a well to wheels life cycle
carbon impact that is 70 % roughly less than fossil-based fuels
and significantly lower than other conventional biofuels.
* A complete drop-in replacement
* Scalable
Sapphire Energy
- This moment is enormously important for the industry
as it validates the benefits and advantages of Green Crude,
and confirms its place as a market viable, refiner-ready,
renewable crude oil solution.
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