Natchez Site

Our Natchez site, is located in Adams County, Mississippi, near the city of Natchez. The 450-acre property has optimal characteristics such as being adjacent to Mississippi River; access to barge, pipeline, and rail transportation, biomass supply; and a Carbon Capture Sequestration solution.

The project designs we are evaluating for the site would include the use of both our biomass gasification and/or Fischer-Tropsch technologies. The product mix could possibly include renewable power, specialty chemicals and waxes, along with synthetic fuels, depending on project economics and product demand.

We are in detailed discussions with large-scale owners of timber harvest residuals and natural gas. With a Carbon Capture Sequestration solution, a mixed biomass and fossil project would have a very attractive carbon profile.

We have contracted to sell all of the carbon dioxide to be captured at this proposed facility site to Denbury Onshore, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Denbury Resources Inc. (“Denbury”). Carbon dioxide purchased under the long-term contract would be used for enhanced oil recovery to produce otherwise unrecoverable oil at Denbury’s Cranfield oil field in Southwest Mississippi as well as at the company’s oil fields within the greater Gulf Coast area. The Cranfield oil field is currently hosting a U.S Department of Energy (“DOE”)-sponsored carbon dioxide sequestration project that is the first in the nation to inject more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide into an underground rock formation followed by additional injections into the saline portion of the reservoir, more than 10,000 feet below the surface. The sequestration of carbon dioxide captured at the Natchez facility would enable the fuels produced at the facility to have a lifecycle carbon footprint lower than that of petroleum-derived fuels, as concluded in a study conducted by the DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory. The DOE study is accessible on our Publications Page.