OriginOil Ships First Production System

Good morning!

First Single Step Extraction™ Production System Shipped

Yesterday was a great moment in our company’s history: acceptance tests complete, our first production unit left for Australia!

Photos and video here. (slideshow)

Congratulations to Gavin Gray and his engineering team, who built the entire system right here at our headquarters! Here are some views of the unit itself. (slideshow)

This is the first commercial-grade system we announced earlier this year. It will support MBD Energy’s early testing at the Tarong Power Station. Once replaced by the upcoming full-scale systems, it will move to other testing locations.

Other American milestones:

• McCormack’s first factory-produced reaper, sold from Lockport, New York.
• Rockefeller’s first petroleum oil pipeline, from Titusville to Cleveland.
• Robert Fulton’s first steamboat ride up the Hudson.

• Australia’s largest ethanol producer is diversifying into algae (they now use mostly wheat). (Article). This has great potential for replacing corn in America’s ethanol industries.

• The Department of Energy’s multi-feedstock initiative, (see our collaboration), will enable refiners to pick from a wide range of sources, thus greatly increasing stability and scalability of biofuels.