Arbios Biotech biomass to bio-oil facility is set to go

By Cheryl Jahn
CKPG Today
January 29, 2025
Category: Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy
Region: Canada, Canada West

PRINCE GEORGE – It was 2021 when Canfor announced a final investment decision on a project to produce biofuel. The plant will use hydrothermal liquefaction technology to convert forestry residues and wastes into high value into renewable biocrude, which can be further refined to produce low-carbon transportation fuels. “What we do is essentially, what nature does over millions of years we do in 25 to 30 minutes,” explains Rune Gjessing, CEO of Arbios Biotech. “We’re taking organic matter, manipulating it, and then producing oil.” In August 2022, a formal naming of the Arbios facility adjacent to the Canfor Intercon Pulp mill to Chuntoh Ghuna, meaning “the forest lives.” …The world’s largest hydrothermal liquefaction facility in the world, converting 25,000 dry tonnes of wood residuals into 50,000 barrels of biofuel annually. …The plant uses residuals from the forest sector. …The biofuel produced will be used for aircraft and marine purposes.

 

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