MILESTONES
January 10, 2012
Council of Energy Resource Tribes and BioJet form Strategic Alliance. Click here
July 6, 2011
UWI-Cave Hill and BioJet International Initiate Research and Commercial Biofuels Partnership. Click here
July 6, 2011
BioJet Supports Aviation Biofuel Approval with One Billion Gallon Availability. Click here
July 4, 2011
ASTM blesses aviation biofuel spec, clears runways for new fuels : Biofuels Digest Click here
April 30, 2011
BioJet and Abundant Biofuels Agree to Merge. Click here
February 4, 2011
BioJet International Ltd. announced that it has received $1.2B Billion funding facility from Equity Partners Fund SPC. Click here for the press release.
March 22, 2010
International Air Transport Association (IATA) accepts BioJet as first Alternative Fuel Strategic Partner. This gives BioJet direct access to 293 world airlines, most fuel service companies and is a powerful validation of the Company. IATA will refer inquiries from its members regarding renewable jet fuel to the Company.
March 16, 2010
BioJet and partner FuturePast propose to Climate Action Reserve first Carbon Credits for US renewable jet fuel. (First in world)
March 4, 2010
BioJet, Tartoosh, and Algae Floating Systems execute joint venture designed to create Algae cultivation and integrated refinery facilities on Native American lands.
January 28, 2010
BioJet and Great Plains begin collaboration on Camelina project in Latin America. Target is 300,000 hectares in cultivation. Pilot plot is 10,000 hectares. (1 hectare = 2.47 acres) Target fuel is 75 million gallons annually.
January 27, 2010
Tartoosh Environmental, Great Plains, and BioJet form joint venture designed to create Camelina cultivation and integrated refinery facilities on Native American lands. Federal monies are available for projects on Indian lands. Target is total of 300,000 acres under cultivation and 30 million gallons of fuel refined annually.
January 6, 2010
BioJet Corporation and Great Plains Oil & Exploration announced today that they have executed a Teaming Agreement for the purpose of producing renewable jet fuels. The companies plan to jointly develop integrated Camelina cultivation and associated refinery projects in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia. Target is 200 million gallons per year of renewable jet fuel, 65 million gallons per year of co-products, and 2.3 million tons per year of Camelina meal, for use as a high-quality animal feed.
November 18, 2009
BioJet Corporation announced today that it has agreed with the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL) to serve as the first Pilot project company for the worldwide implementation of the Principles of Sustainability recently approved by the EPFL’s Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB). Click here
November 2009
The Company is entering into strategic relations with UOP (a division of Honeywell).
September 8, 2009
BioJet Corporation has entered into an off-take letter of intent with a major distributor to sell 2.0 million bbl of biojet fuel for 2 years or 4.0 million bbl.
August 2009
The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) welcomes BioJet Corporation. CAAFI is the U.S. coalition of airlines, engines manufacturers, energy producers, researcher, international participants and U.S. government agencies leading the development and deployment of renewable jet fuels for commercial aviation.
July 14, 2009
BioJet Corporation founds the World BioJet Alliance, a non-profit, independent and impartial global organization founded to promote, conduct research, coordinate communications and provide innovative solutions for advanced biofuels used in aviation. Mitch Hawkins serves as founding Chairman of the Board of Governors.
April 15, 2009
Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL) appoints American on board. Prestigious EPFL, responsible for setting minimum sustainability standards worldwide. EPFL this week appointed Mitch Hawkins, CEO of BioJet Corp., as a member of the Industrial Biofuel Producers Chamber of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels.
April 13, 2009
World’s largest renewable jet fuel source contract signed between BioJet Corporation and Abundant Biofuels. The agreement ramps quickly to 5 million barrels per year and remains at that level for more than a decade with pricing indexed to price fluctuations of WTI crude petroleum oil.
January 1, 2009
BioJet Corporation is formed as a collaboration of Abundant Biofuels Corporation, South Pole Carbon Asset Management Ltd. (Zurich) and Mitch Hawkins & Company, Inc.
December 30, 2008
World’s first renewable jet fuel test flight. Air New Zealand conducts the first aviation test flight powered by a second-generation biofuel. Click here.
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