Food and Fuel: Plymouth Oil to co-generate 30 Mgy of corn oil from Plymouth Energy ethanol by-product

April 17, 2008

In Iowa, Plymouth Oil announced plans to develop a 25 Mgy corn oil plant adjacent to the Plymouth Energy corn ethanol plant now under construction near Merrill. The corn oil will be supplied to the food market, while defatted corn germ will be supplied to the livestock market. Production is expected to commence by April 2009.

Typical announcements regarding corn oil last year focused on biodiesel rather than food production.

GreenShift announced an agreement with United Ethanol to extract up to 1.5 Mgy of crude corn oil from distillers grain co-product at United Ethanol’s new dry mill ethanol plant.

United Ethanol, which commenced operations in March 2007, signed co-product agreements with EPCO Carbon Dioxide to capture carbon dioxide, and the Environmental Credit Corporation and Carbon Green, to monetize carbon credits.

GreenShift’s extraction technology reduces plant utility costs by up to $1 million per year for a 100 million gallon per year ethanol plant that dries 100% of its distiller’s grains.

The plan mirrors similar projects in New York recently announced between GreenShift, Northeast Biofuels and Global Ethanol.

GS CleanTech Corporation inked an agreement with Northeast Biofuels to extract 10 Mgy of crude corn oil from the distillers grain produced at NEB’s 114 Mgy ethanol plant in Volney, NY. In the Northeast Biofuels deal, GS CleanTech will provide an extraction system to NEB and in turn receives a right to purchase the extracted corn oil at a contract price. GS AgriFuels Corporation plans to construct a 10 Mgy corn oil biodiesel facility adjacent to the NEB facility.

GreenShift Agrifuels announced a deal with Global Ethanol to extract 10 Mgy of crude corn oil from Global Ethanol’s distillers grains. The grains are a by-product from the company’s 157 Mgy corn ethanol produced at its plants in Lakota, IA and Riga, MI. Under the agreement, Green Shift AgriFuels and Global Ethanol will form a biodiesel joint venture, GS Global Biodiesel which will own and operate a 10 Mgy biodiesel plant in Lakota. The new facility will be online before the end of 2008.

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Written by Jim Lane · Filed Under Producer News