Rentech Projects

Rentech’s Product Demonstration Unit, located in Sand Creek, Colorado, is expected to be the first fully-integrated biomass-coal-to-liquids facility. The PDU will produce approximately 10 barrels per day of ultra-clean diesel, aviation fuels and naphtha. The PDU will serve as a testing ground for feedstock such as natural gas, coal and biomass and as an end-to-end demonstration center for the production process of synthetic fuels.

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Rentech will build its first commercial synthetic fuels plant utilizing the Rentech Process at the site of its proposed Strategic Fuels and Chemicals Complex in Adams County, Mississippi near the city of Natchez (“Natchez”). The Natchez facility, which will help meet the nation’s growing need for clean-burning, alternative transportation fuels, will be built in two phases. Rentech is targeting to complete Phase 1, the production of 1,600 barrels per day, in 2011 or earlier. Rentech is targeting to produce an additional 28,000 barrels per day during Phase 2 of the Natchez project.

Using the patented Rentech Process, Natchez Phase 1 will be designed to use petroleum coke together with at least 5% (as measured by energy content) of biomass as the gasification feedstock. In addition, the captured carbon dioxide that will be produced at this facility is designated to be sold under an existing long-term agreement with Denbury Resources for enhanced oil recovery in the region. With the carbon capture and sequestration plan as well as a biomass blend, the carbon dioxide emissions from the production of fuels at Natchez Phase 1 are expected to be substantially lower than those generated in the production of petroleum-derived fuels. Rentech believes the fuels produced at this facility will be among the most greenhouse gas friendly fuels available in the country.

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Rentech Energy Midwest Corporation (“REMC”) is an ammonia nitrogen fertilizer facility located in East Dubuque, Illinois. The facility produces approximately 830 tons per day of natural gas-fed ammonia nitrogen fertilizer products that is sold to the surrounding agricultural community. Rentech will evaluate economic and public policy factors to determine the feasibility of converting REMC’s feedstock from natural gas to coal using gasification technology and then using the excess capacity in those gasifiers to run a commercial scale Rentech reactor.

Rentech plans to build a biomass energy technology center at REMC. The proposed center would focus on the development and production of advanced bio-fuels and bio-fertilizer and is expected to include the installation of biomass gasification technologies at the REMC site.

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Rentech's wholly-owned subsidiary, Rentech Development Corporation, and Peabody Electricity LLC, a wholly-owned entity of Peabody Energy, entered into a Joint Development Agreement for the co-development of two Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) projects, which will be located on Peabody reserves. The projects will convert coal into ultra-clean transportation fuels using the Rentech Process. The companies intend to make use of Peabody's reserves in Montana and the Midwest and will evaluate a mine-mouth project model to maximize cost and transportation advantages. One project is targeted for production of 10,000 barrels per day of transportation fuels while the other is projected to produce up to 30,000 barrels per day.

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Rentech and the Mingo County Redevelopment Authority entered into a Joint Development Agreement for the co-development of a potential synthetic fuels facility located in Mingo County, West Virginia. The project is expected to be built in two phases, with production of approximately 3,000 barrels per day upon completion of the first phase of the project and up to approximately 30,000 barrels per day upon completion of the second phase of the project. The feedstock for the facility is expected to be waste coal and waste biomass from the region. The project is currently in the feasibility phase.

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Rentech has entered into a Joint Development Agreement for a 1,500 to 3,000 barrels per day standalone biomass facility with Solena Group, a global power production company that builds, owns and operates renewable clean energy plants and is 25% owned by Acciona Energy, a world leader in the renewable energy sector. The site and feedstock in Northern California that will turn biomass into jet fuel and naphtha utilizing Solena's propriety gasification and Rentech's proprietary technology has been identified. This facility is expected to be the first commercial biomass to jet fuel production facility in the country.

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Rentech signed a Master License Agreement (MLA) with DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC (DKRW-AF), a wholly-owned subsidiary of DKRW Energy LLC, for the use of the Rentech Process. Concurrent with the signing of the MLA, DKRW-AF’s wholly owned-subsidiary, Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC (MBF&P), signed an individual site license for its proposed Medicine Bow Project in Medicine Bow, Wyoming.

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