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Sustainable Oils Adds Nick Flaman to Canada Camelina Production Team
12-09-2009

Dec. 9, 2009 - Bozeman, MT - Sustainable Oils has added a Saskatchewan-based agriculture professional to its team focused on building camelina production and marketing opportunities for farmers.  Nick Flaman joined the company on December 1 as a sales representative, responsible for contracting camelina production acres and providing technical and agronomic assistance to growers in Saskatchewan.

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Camelina Meal Approved for Use in Feedlot Beef Rations
11-10-2009

November 10, 2009 - Great Falls, MT - The North American Camelina Trade Association (NACTA) today announced the achievement of another milestone in its efforts to build camelina production and marketing opportunities for growers.  The industry received approval from the Center for Veterinary Medicine, a department of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, for the use of camelina meal in the diets of feedlot beef cattle up to 10 percent of the weight of the total ration.  Camelina meal is a co-product of camelina oil extraction.

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Test Results Promising that Navy Hornet Can Fly on “Green Fuel”
10-27-2009

Members of the U.S. Navy’s NAVAIR Fuels team recently made a small, but very vital step toward changing the source of jet fuel the U.S. Navy uses.  The team tested an F404 F/A-18 engine to determine if it could run on a jet fuel (JP-5) derived from a camelina.  This first test on the F/A-18 Hornet engine proved that a renewable source of JP-5 can be used as a “drop-in” replacement for the current petroleum-based jet fuel. 

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Sustainable Oils to Supply 100,000 Gallons of Camelina-based Renewable Jet Fuel to U.S. Air Force
10-01-2009

Domestic, renewable and low-carbon fuel selected to power military aircraft

October 1, 2009 - Bozeman, MT - Sustainable Oils, a producer of renewable, low carbon and domestically produced camelina-based fuels, announced today it has been awarded a contract by the Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) to supply camelina-based jet fuel for the Air Force.  The contract is for 100,000 gallons of HRJ-8 beginning 2009 through 2010, and includes an option to purchase an additional 100,000 gallons between June 2010 and December 2012. 

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Sustainable Oils to Supply Navy with Camelina-based Jet Fuel
09-09-2009

Sustainable Oils to Supply Navy with Camelina-based Jet Fuel
Fuel will be used to support Navy's certification testing program

September 9, 2009 - Bozeman, MT - Sustainable Oils, a producer of renewable, environmentally clean, and high-value camelina-based fuels, announced today it has been awarded a contract by the Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) for 40,000 gallons of camelina-based jet fuel. The fuel will be delivered to the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) fuels team in 2009 and will support the Navy's certification testing program of alternative fuels. The contract includes an option to supply up to an additional 150,000 gallons of camelina-based jet fuel.

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2009 Camelina Harvest Underway
08-24-2009

2009 Camelina Harvest Underway

August 24, 2009–Combines and trucks are rolling across Montana and Southern Canada as farmers are harvesting the 2009 camelina crop.  However, the harvested oilseeds will soon be powering a higher-flying form of transportation.

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Life Cycle Analysis of Camelina-based Renewable Jet Fuel 
Shows 84% CO2 Emissions Reduction Compared to Petroleum Fuel
04-27-2009

High oil content, low fertilizer requirements and co-product use combine to lower carbon footprint

April 27, 2009 – Bozeman, MT –Renewable fuels company Sustainable Oils today announced the results of a life cycle analysis (LCA) of jet fuel created from camelina seeds developed by the company, which shows that the renewable fuel reduces carbon emissions by 84 percent compared to petroleum jet fuel. The research, in collaboration with UOP, a Honeywell company, was conducted at Michigan Tech University, a leading research university. The study was based on camelina grown in Montana and processed into biojet fuel using UOP hydroprocessing technology.

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Sustainable Oils Successfully Closes 2009 Camelina Contracting Season
04-12-2009

Company Working with Growers, Processors, End-Users 
to Build Additional Opportunities for 2010

April 14, 2009 – Bozeman, MT – Sustainable Oils has successfully closed its camelina contracting period for the 2009 growing season. Growers across Montana and southern Canada are now gearing up to plant the 2009 camelina crop.

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New Trade Association Formed for North America Camelina Industry
03-03-2009

Energy crop growing in prominence as viable vehicle and jet fuel feedstock

March 3, 2009 – GREAT FALLS, MT – Thirteen seed companies, processors and researchers of camelina have formed the first trade association focused on camelina production and processing in North America. The North American Camelina Trade Association (NACTA) will work to promote research, production and the development of new markets for camelina – a relatively new energy crop in North America that has exciting potential.

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JAL Flight Brings Aviation One Step Closer to Using Biofuel
01-30-2009

Tokyo, January 30, 2009: Today, Japan Airlines (JAL) became the first airline to conduct a demonstration flight using a sustainable biofuel primarily refined from the energy crop, camelina. It was also the first demo flight using a combination of three sustainable biofuel feedstocks, as well as the first one using Pratt & Whitney engines. The results of the flight are expected to conclusively confirm the second-generation biofuel’s operational performance capabilities and potential commercial viability.

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Camelina-based Aviation Fuel Cleared for Takeoff: Sustainable Oils to Participate in Historic Flight
12-16-2008

BOZEMAN, Mt. (December 16, 2008) Sustainable Oils, a producer and marketer of renewable, environmentally clean, and high-value camelina-based biofuels will participate in an historic flight by Japan Airlines (JAL) planned for January 30, 2009. The demonstration flight will make JAL the first Asian carrier to fly on fuel derived from sustainable feedstocks and the first airline to use camelina-based bio-jet fuel.

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New Camelina Varieties and Yields
10-03-2008

Sustainable Oils has sown the seeds of change for farmers in the northwestern US and Canada with extensive research. Of the more than 90 accessions of seed lines tested, SO-10, SO-20 and SO-30, were selected to be sold in 2009 because they have high yield potential and good agronomic characteristics.

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