Sapphire Energy Deal With Phillips 66

Renewable energy company Sapphire Energy, Inc. and Phillips 66 have entered into a joint development agreement designed to promote and facilitate the commercial production of Sapphire's algae-based crude oil, which will be made into fuels. According to Sapphire's press release describing the agreement, "the companies will work together to collect and analyze data from co-processing of algae and conventional crude oil into fuels. The goal is to complete fuel certifications to ready Sapphire Energy's renewable crude oil, called Green Crude, for wide-scale oil refining." Further, "under the agreement the companies will expand Sapphire Energy's current testing programs to further validate that Green Crude can be refined in traditional refineries and meet all of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) certification requirements under the Clean Air Act." A copy of the press release is available online.