OOIL- OriginOil, Inc.,

**greencat** · #1 07-19-2009, 02:50 PM

OriginOil, Inc., a development stage company, focuses on developing a technology to produce biofuel from algae to replace petroleum in various applications, such as diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, plastics, and solvents. Its patent-pending technology, Quantum Fracturing, is based on the science of mass transfer and fluid fracturing. The company intends to license its technology to customers, such as fuel refiners, and chemical and oil companies. OriginOil, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Los Angeles, California

Petroleum Alternatives Are Our Future

Driven by rising oil prices, Kyoto protocol and global warming concerns, countries worldwide are quickly embracing petroleum alternatives such as ethanol and biodiesel, which can curb their dependence on imported oil with minimal infrastructure change. The market for a new oil is proven and expanding rapidly.

OriginOil’s breakthrough technology, based on algae, is targeted at fundamentally changing the world’s source of oil without disrupting the environment or food resources. An endless supply of this new oil can be used in many of products like diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, plastics and solvents without the global warming effects of petroleum.

Only by industrializing the manufacture of new oil can the current and future demands of global industrialization be met.

Typical Uses of Algae Oil and Biomass

The oil produced from algae can replace all but the heavier (tarry) fractions of petroleum. In addition, the algae mass left over after extraction of the oil can be used for a number of “green” applications.

OriginOil’s patent-pending, breakthrough technology can provide the world with an endless supply of cost-competitive and environment-friendly oil to displace petroleum.

Next Generation Technologies
Unlike many current approaches to algae oil cultivation, OriginOil is employing several next-generation technologies to greatly enhance algae cultivation and oil extraction, and to allow scalable industrialization of this process to make algae a high-yield, cost-competitive replacement for petroleum.

Challenges

There are three primary challenges in cultivating algae for oil:

1. Algae growth is dependent on a calm fluid environment; it does not like agitation. One of the primary challenges is how to optimally introduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and nutrients needed by the growing algae culture without disrupting or over-aerating it.

2. Algae requires light as a source of energy to fuel its growth and oil production facilities. Algae cultivation systems need to cost-effectively and evenly distribute light within the algae culture.

3. Algae organisms are protected by a tough cell wall. That wall must be cracked - an energy-expensive process - to extract the oil. The challenge is to maximize oil yield by cracking as many of the algae cells as possible with the smallest amount of energy.

Patent-Pending Technology

OriginOil's suite of patent-pending technologies and process innovations intends to address these specific challenges.

**greencat** · #2 09-08-2009, 03:04 AM

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, has announced that the company’s President and CEO, Riggs Eckelberry, will present the industry’s first-ever comprehensive algae productivity model to industry leaders and fellow members at the National Algae Association's (NAA) quarterly conference, entitled "Algae: The New Oil," in Houston on September 18, 2009.

"A good baseline model for productivity of industrialized algae is critical to the billions being invested in the algae segment," said Eckelberry. "It is our intention to share as much of this as we can to foster collaboration and help quantify industry productivity, raw material requirements including energy, capital requirements and potential ROI."

OriginOil Chief Scientist Dr. Vikram Pattarkine will join Riggs Eckelberry in making the presentation and will address the science and engineering aspects. He will also speak to the core productivity numbers in the model, which are based on OriginOil's own extensive laboratory experimentation.

"Our industry is crying out for a good baseline. It doesn’t matter if the numbers are great, but we need a logical place to start," said Barry Cohen, executive director of the National Algae Association. He added, "We’ve come to expect this kind of courageous thinking from the folks at OriginOil and I can’t wait to see the results!"

OriginOil's interactive model defines the raw material inputs, quantifies the efficiency of the production and extraction system, and converts the feedstock into various fuels and co-products. It estimates the real estate footprint for an industrial algae operation, capital requirements and operating expenses, and the time required to recapture the initial investment. General elements of the model will be published as a beta release in the weeks to come, encouraging feedback and contribution. The detailed model will be shared with select OriginOil partners.

About the Conference

The conference will be held on September 17-18, 2009 at the Sheraton North Houston in Houston, TX. In support of its recent response to The Department of Energy's National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap, "Algae: The New Oil" will cover a full range of subjects focusing on the commercialization of the algae production industry, including research, growing, harvesting, extraction and by-products, as well as project financing issues and grant-writing techniques. Among those presenting will be industry peers from LiveFuels, Inc., Alfa Laval Group, Phycal and Algaeventure Systems, Inc. For more information or to attend the seminar, visit National Algae Association.

About OriginOil, Inc.

OriginOil, Inc. is developing a breakthrough technology that will transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum. Much of the world's oil and gas is made up of ancient algae deposits. Today, our technology will produce "new oil" from algae, through a cost-effective, high-speed manufacturing process. This endless supply of new oil can be used for many products, such as diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, plastics and solvents, without the global warming effects of petroleum. Other oil-producing feedstock, such as corn and sugarcane, often destroy vital farmlands and rainforests, disrupt global food supplies and create new environmental problems. Our unique technology, based on algae, is targeted at fundamentally changing our source of oil without disrupting the environment or food supplies. To learn more about OriginOil™, please visit our website at OriginOil - Breakthrough Algae Oil Technology.

OriginOil to Present First-Ever Algae Productivity Model at National Algae Association's Quarterly Conference - Yahoo! Finance

**greencat** · #3 10-07-2009, 02:02 PM

OriginOil Announces the Completion of Phase 1 Research Project with Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, today announced the completion of Phase 1 of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory (INL).

OriginOil has been working with INL to develop a process model for the commercial production of algae for biofuels and other value-added products. Phase 1 of the CRADA focused on developing a comprehensive mass-energy balance of OriginOil's proprietary process. This helped the company develop its comprehensive productivity model recently presented to the National Algae Association's Quarterly Forum in Houston, Texas. INL researchers provided core data on the projected efficiency and recovery values for the various steps involved in the algae-growing process, including lipid and biomass production from algae.

"Algae represent a potential key biomass resource for a sustainable bioenergy industry," said Tom Ulrich, INL Senior Advisory Scientist. "Collaboration with OriginOil has been encouraging, especially the modeling of their algae growth and production process. Phase 2 of the CRADA will focus on further process validation, economic modeling and improved biomass logistics for the scale up of algae biomass production."

CEO Eckelberry added: "We look forward to continuing our relationship with INL and incorporating their research into our technology development and performance modeling. Through this collaboration we will facilitate the growth of the entire algae sector, and create a domestic renewable fuel industry that will benefit both the environment and the economy."

INL and OriginOil are currently negotiating the scope and terms of Phase 2 and 3 of the CRADA. The deliverables for additional phases will include biological and chemical feedstock evaluation needed for systems integration design and scale-up demonstration. This work will identify and incorporate minor feeds (such as trace nutrients for algae), recycle streams, intermediate storage, utilities needed, and waste streams. Equipment sizes and the appropriate number of parallel units will also be determined, resulting in a more robust economic analysis of industrial scale systems.

The company reported the results of Phase 1 as part of the first-ever productivity model for algae production. The model was well received by industry leaders because of its comprehensive data set, transparent assumptions, and clarity on the commercialization challenge. OriginOil plans to publish specialized calculators on the company's website, and will make the detailed model available to researchers.

"The new algae industry needed a comprehensive economic model to ramp up quickly," said OriginOil CEO Riggs Eckelberry. "INL has played an integral part in our efforts to quantify the performance of key steps within the OriginOil algae production system."

About OriginOil, Inc.

OriginOil, Inc. is developing a breakthrough technology that will transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum. Much of the world's oil and gas is made up of ancient algae deposits. Today, our technology will produce "new oil" from algae, through a cost-effective, high-speed manufacturing process. This endless supply of new oil can be used for many products, such as diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, plastics and solvents, without the global warming effects of petroleum. Other oil-producing feedstock, such as corn and sugarcane, often destroy vital farmlands and rainforests, disrupt global food supplies and create new environmental problems. Our unique technology, based on algae, is targeted at fundamentally changing our source of oil without disrupting the environment or food supplies. To learn more about OriginOil™, please visit our website at OriginOil - Breakthrough Algae Oil Technology.
OriginOil Announces the Completion of Phase 1 Research Project with Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory - Yahoo! Finance

**greencat** · #4 11-03-2009, 10:20 AM

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, announced that the company's Chief Scientist, Dr. Vikram Pattarkine, will address an investor-oriented audience with a presentation on algal biofuels during the BioEnergy Day 2009 Conference in Toronto, on November 24, 2009.

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Unlike many current approaches to algae oil cultivation, OriginOil is rapidly moving toward the path of commercialization by employing several next-generation technologies to greatly enhance oil extraction, which allows for the creation of a high-yield, cost-competitive replacement for petroleum.

"We continue to expand in the tech arena and look forward to utilizing biofuels to its fullest potential," said Dr. Pattarkine. "The Canadian government has committed to a 5 per cent average renewable content in gasoline and diesel fuels by 2010, and we believe algae would be one of the most promising feedstocks for achieving this goal."

OriginOil recently unveiled a series of announcements, including: a Single Step Extraction™, or a low energy process to extract oil from algae; the completion of Phase 1 of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to develop a comprehensive mass-energy balance of OriginOil's proprietary process; and patent protection for its new Attached Growth System, which plans to be integrated into a demonstration algae system currently being built at OriginOil's headquarters.

Dr. Pattarkine and OriginOil CEO Riggs Eckelberry recently spoke at the National Algae Association's quarterly Conference in Houston and outlined a plan to share the first-ever interactive model for algae production. Earlier this year, Dr. Pattarkine also spoke at the Asian Development Bank's Annual Developing Member Countries Sanitation Dialogue on how algae could be integrated into wastewater treatment applications.

BioEnergy Day 2009 is a unique one-day conference and opportunity for institutional investors to meet with executives from power, oil refining, forest products, fertilizer and sustainable fuel companies. The conference will take place on Tuesday, November 24 at Le Royal Meridien King Edward Hotel in Toronto, Ontario. A webcast of the event will be available at Scotia Capital.

About OriginOil, Inc.

OriginOil, Inc. is developing a breakthrough technology that will transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum. Much of the world's oil and gas is made up of ancient algae deposits. Today, our technology will produce "new oil" from algae, through a cost-effective, high-speed manufacturing process. This endless supply of new oil can be used for many products, such as diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, plastics and solvents, without the global warming effects of petroleum. Other oil-producing feedstock, such as corn and sugarcane, often destroy vital farmlands and rainforests, disrupt global food supplies and create new environmental problems. Our unique technology, based on algae, is targeted at fundamentally changing our source of oil without disrupting the environment or food supplies. To learn more about OriginOil™, please visit our website at OriginOil - Breakthrough Algae Oil Technology.

OriginOil Chief Scientist to Speak at BioEnergy Day 2009 Conference in Toronto - Yahoo! Finance

**greencat** · #5 10-24-2010, 04:15 PM

OriginOil Enters Strategic Partnership with Major Bio-Capture Player
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, today announced that it entered recently into a strategic partnership agreement with MBD Energy Limited, its first customer and a leading player in the fast-growing field of CO2 Bio-Capture using algae.

"We are excited to collaborate with OOIL on our joint quest to commercialise industrial-scale algae production," said Andrew Lawson, MBD Energy’s managing director. "We look forward to working very closely on large-scale algae systems to absorb the CO2 from coal-fired power plants and other major greenhouse-gas emitters."

MBD Energy is regarded as an international leader in the use of captured flue-gases as feedstock to produce algal biomass. One of the world’s largest mining companies, Anglo American, is a cornerstone investor. Earlier this year, MBD became OriginOil’s first customer for a research-scale system. Based on the success of this phase, MBD will purchase progressively larger systems to serve its three major power station projects in Australia.

OriginOil and MBD recently agreed on a process to manage these phases, to protect OriginOil’s Intellectual Property, and for the joint integration of multiple technologies. OriginOil will market any such jointly-developed systems worldwide.

Under the agreement, MBD will have up to two years of Australian exclusivity for any product that it purchases from OriginOil.

"With this agreement, MBD becomes our first strategic partner," said Riggs Eckelberry, OriginOil CEO. "They will help us improve our own products in the field while assigning all such improvements to us, and we will also develop integrated systems together." He added, "We welcome Australia’s MBD Energy as our first geographical partner and look forward to many years of mutual growth in the fast-moving field of CO2 capture using algae."

About OriginOil, Inc. (web address: OriginOil - Breakthrough Algae Oil Technology)

OriginOil, Inc. is developing a breakthrough technology that will transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum. Much of the world's oil and gas is made up of ancient algae deposits. Today, our technology will produce "new oil" from algae, through a cost-effective, high-speed manufacturing process. This endless supply of new oil can be used for many products, such as diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, plastics and solvents, without the global warming effects of petroleum. Other oil-producing feedstock, such as corn and sugarcane, often destroy vital farmlands and rainforests, disrupt global food supplies and create new environmental problems. Our unique technology, based on algae, is targeted at fundamentally changing our source of oil without disrupting the environment or food supplies.

About MBD Energy Limited (web address: MBD Energy)

MBD is an Australian based public, unlisted technology company. One of the world's largest mining companies, Anglo American, became a cornerstone investor in MBD in 2009 and Anglo Coal's Global CEO, Seamus French, has recently joined as a non-executive director of MBD Energy. The MBD Energy Board is chaired by former BHP Chairman, Jerry Ellis. MBD has a joint research and development facility located at James Cook University (JCU), Townsville, Queensland. MBD Energy and its JCU team are regarded as international leaders in the use of captured flue-gases as feedstock to produce algal biomass for Bio-CCS. In addition to the project at Tarong Power Station, MBD Energy currently has two similar projects underway with Loy Yang Power in Victoria and Eraring Energy in New South Wales. MBD Energy is a founding member of the Bio CCS program. The program is made up of a number of regional projects with each targeting 50 million tonnes of greenhouse gas sequestration per year by 2020.

OriginOil Enters Strategic Partnership with Major Bio-Capture Player - Yahoo! Finance

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GarryOH95 · #6 11-08-2010, 12:24 PM

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lime · #7 03-31-2011, 05:07 PM

I love the idea of Origin Oil, have been following them for some time and think the technology could be a real game changer... is it too early though? Nice speech by Obama the other day on making a commitment to get the country off of oil, but not really any clear roadmap or ideas...

Any thoughts out there from others?

Ken
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