Odessa News

Blue Marble Energy Corp and the Odessa Public Development Authority have been awarded $2 million from Washington's Community Economic Revitalization Board to build the state's first specialty biochemical biorefinery in Lincoln County, Wash.

Seattle-based Blue Marble Energy , the developer of renewable energy and specialty chemicals from biomass, said it has received a $2 million state grant through a partnership with the Odessa Public Development Authority.

Two Seattle bio-energy companies, Blue Marble Energy Corp. and Bionavitas, have joined forces to produce biochemicals from microalgae using a Bionavitas process that can greatly increase large-scale algae production.

BME's AGATE process. Click to enlarge. Blue Marble Energy Corp. , a company using unique bacterial consortia to produce specialty biochemicals from the anaerobic fermentation of a range of biomass feedstocks, and Bionavitas, an algae producer, formed a partnership in which Blue Marble Energy will produce high-margin biochemicals from microalgae ...

A new, eight-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel plant in Washington state has come on line with the opening of the facility's canola crusher, joining its biodiesel brewer that began refining last November.

A National Weather Service team sent to investigate damage from Wednesday's severe supercell thunderstorm in Lincoln and Stevens Counties determined that an F0 tornado briefly touched down NE of Davenport Wednesday evening.