For more information on our newest biodiesel plant, call (512) 220 - 1498 and leave your name and contact information with our voice mail service or send email to:     info @ RenewableEnergyInstitute . org

We buy, sell, broker Canola Biodiesel, Coconut Biodiesel, Crude Palm Oil, Jatropha Biodiesel, Palm Oil Biodiesel, Refined Palm Oil, Palm Oil Biodiesel, Rapeseed Biodiesel, and other vegetable oils to convert them into B100 Biodiesel.  

We invest in and build new B100 Biodiesel plants throughout the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean and Central America.

Crude Palm Oil - and many other "natural" biofuels, represents significant, strategic and sustainable an alternative to "dirty" crude oil, fossil fuels and foreign oil supplies, no matter where our customers are located.  

B100 Biodiesel helps farmers, agricultural communities, local and regional economies, and the environment as B100 Biodiesel is carbon-neutral and doesn't contribute to pollution.  B100 Biodiesel ends our reliance on unstable, non-renewable, and "dirty" middle-east oil that pollutes our environment and causes inflated energy prices.  

Our company invests in and builds new Biodiesel Refineries throughout the U.S., Canada, Central America and the Caribbean. For individual farmers, we can design, engineer and build small-scale biodiesel refineries; i.e. 5,000 acres of canola will produce about 500,000 gallons of Biodiesel.  We are a broker and importer of Crude Palm Oil and other energy oils, where we refine it into Biodiesel fuel for use in our cogeneration and trigeneration power plants.

Our company builds new Biodiesel Refineries throughout the U.S. and now, developing countries with specialized feedstocks that include coconut, palm oil, soybean, jojoba and jatropha.  In association with a major U.S. university, we incorporate the latest technologies in the production of B100 Biodiesel from oilseed crops, that will provide our biodiesel refineries with the highest efficiencies. We also are an importer of (vegetable) energy oils, where we refine it into Biodiesel fuel for use in our cogeneration and trigeneration power plants. 

We buy/sell/broker (vegetable) energy oils in the international market. For qualified clients, we provide "turnkey" biodiesel refinery services, including; EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction), Investment/Funding, Permitting, and Emission Reduction Credits under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism.  For more information, call 832 - 758 - 0027  

Cogeneration Technologies, is based in Houston, Texas and provides the following power and energy project development services: 

• Project Engineering Feasibility & Economic Analysis Studies  

• Engineering, Procurement and Construction

• Environmental Engineering & Permitting 

• Project Funding & Financing Options; including Equity Investment, Debt Financing, Lease and Municipal Lease

• Shared/Guaranteed Savings Program with No Capital Investment from Qualified Clients 

• Project Commissioning 

• 3rd Party Ownership and Project Development

• Long-term Service Agreements

• Operations & Maintenance 

• Green Tag (Renewable Energy Credit, Carbon Dioxide Credits, Emission Reduction Credits) Brokerage Services; Application and Permitting

We are specialists in Renewable Energy Technologies, Demand Side Management and in developing clean power/energy projects that will generate a Renewable Energy Credit,  Carbon Dioxide Credits and/or Emission Reduction Credits.  Through our strategic partners, we offer "turnkey" power/energy project development products and services that may include; Absorption Chillers, Adsorption Chillers, Automated Demand Response, Biodiesel Refineries, Biofuel Refineries, Biomass Gasification, BioMethane, Canola Biodiesel, Coconut Biodiesel, Cogeneration, Concentrating Solar Power, Demand Response Programs, Demand Side Management, Energy Conservation Measures, Energy Master Planning, Engine Driven Chillers, Solar CHP, Solar Cogeneration, Rapeseed Biodiesel, Solar Electric Heat Pumps, Solar Electric Power Systems, Solar Heating and Cooling, Solar Trigeneration, Soy Biodiesel, and Trigeneration.

For more information: call us at: 832-758-0027   

Investors, Is this the Time to Invest in One of Our Company's New, "State-of-the-Art" B100 Biodiesel Plants and Renewable Energy?    

Investors... many celebrities are now embracing, promoting, making investments in, and jumping on the "B100 Biodiesel fuelled Bandwagon!"

These celebrities are getting involved in the B100 Biodiesel business because it's great for the environment, helps farmers everywhere, and ends our dependence on dirty, polluting, foreign oil supplies.  

Maybe you have heard about Willie "Bio-Willie" Nelson and Morgan Freeman, who are now not just promoting B100 Biodiesel, they're investing in this new industry, and even loaning their names to the B100 Biodiesel industry.

Look at the past 6 years production of B100 Biodiesel in the U.S. :

1999:  500,000 gallons of B100 Biodiesel were produced in the U.S.  
2004:  25 million gallons of B100 Biodiesel produced in the U.S.

THAT'S A 5,000% INCREASE IN ONLY 5 YEARS!

2005:  75 million gallons of B100 Biodiesel produced in the U.S.   

Investors... 

1. Are you concerned about the quality of our environment? 

2. Do you want to "do-good" with your investments?

3. Are you looking for a ground-floor market opportunity with huge up-scale and growth opportunities?

4. Are you convinced, as we are, that Biodiesel is the "renewable fuel and energy of the future?!?"

5. Then, you might be interested, and qualified, to make an investment in one of our new Biodiesel plants.

We are planning new Biodiesel plants throughout the United States , the Caribbean , Central America and Southeast Asia . We develop, build, and own B100 Biodiesel plants that use a variety of feedstocks, including;

*  Canola Biodiesel from coconuts - Investments for new Biodiesel
plants now planned for locations in the U.S. (Hawaii), Caribbean, Asia,
Central America and Southeast Asia (See our website at: 
www.CanolaBiodiesel.com for more information)

*  Coconut Biodiesel from coconuts - Investments for new Biodiesel
plants now planned for locations in the U.S. (Hawaii), Caribbean, Asia,
Central America and Southeast Asia (See our website at: 
www.CoconutBiodiesel.com for more information)

*  Jatropha Biodiesel from the Jatropha Curcas plant Investments for new Biodiesel plants now planned for locations in Asia, India, and Southeast Asia  (See our website at:  www.JatrophaBiodiesel.com for more information)

*  Jojoba Biodiesel from the Jatropha Curcas plant - Investments for new Biodiesel plants now planned for locations in Asia, India, and Southeast Asia  (See our website at: www.JojobaBiodiesel.com for more information)

*  Palm Oil Biodiesel from Palm Trees - Investments for new Biodiesel plants now planned for locations in the U.S., Caribbean, Asia, Central America and Southeast Asia  (See our website at:
www.PalmOilBiodiesel.com for more information)

*  Rapeseed Biodiesel from coconuts - Investments for new Biodiesel plants now planned for locations in the U.S. (Hawaii), Caribbean, Asia, Central America and Southeast Asia (See our website at: 
www.RapeseedBiodiesel.com for more information)

*  Soy Biodiesel from Soybean Oil - Investments for new Biodiesel 
plants now planned for locations in the U.S., Asia, Central America and Southeast Asia (See our website at:  www.SoyBiodiesel.net for more information)

Grow Your Own "Green" BioDiesel
Increase Profits for Farmers, Improve the Local and Global Economy and Ecology, 
Decrease Pollution and End the Monopoly of OPEC/Foreign Supplies of "Dirty" Fuels! 

Our company provides EPC solutions and services that include: 

• Crude Oil Refineries

• Engineering, Procurement and Construction

• Simple Cycle Power Plants

• Combined Cycle Power Plants

• Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Plants

• Gas Gathering System Sales

• Flare Gas Recovery

• Gas Compressors

• Glycol Dehydrators

• Heater Treaters

• Natural Gas Measurement

• Vapor Recovery Units

• Engineering and Economic Feasibility Studies 

• Project Design & Permitting

• Project Construction

• Project Funding & Financing Options

• Operations & Maintenance 

For more information: call us at:  832-758-0027

We help owners and operators of crude oil refineries become more energy-efficient and environmentally responsible by offering products and services such as engineering consulting services and energy solutions such as cogeneration, trigeneration, waste heat recovery, VOC Control, steam optimization, vapor recovery and flare gas recovery.  

All of our solutions return huge economic benefits for the owners, wherein our products and services typically have a payback of under 3 years.  And, our solutions also produce enormous savings for our environment.     

About Crude Oil Refineries - What is a Crude Oil Refinery?

A refinery is similar to a factory. Just as a paper mill turns lumber into paper, a refinery takes crude oil and turns it into gasoline and hundreds of other useful products. A typical refinery costs billions of dollars to build and millions more to maintain A refinery runs twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year and requires a large number of employees to run. A refinery can occupy as much land as several hundred football fields. Workers ride bicycles to move from place to place inside the complex. 

The world needs gasoline and petroleum products to move merchandise and people; help make plastics; and do many other things. Today, some refineries turn more than half of every 42-gallon barrel of crude oil into gasoline. How does this transformation take place? Essentially, refining breaks crude oil down into its various components, which then are selectively reconfigured into new products. All refineries perform three basic steps: separation, conversion, and treatment.

Crude Oil Separation

Heavy petroleum fractions are on the bottom, light fractions are on the top. This allows the separation of the various petrochemicals. Modern separation involves piping oil through hot furnaces. The resulting liquids and vapors are discharged into distillation towers.

Inside the towers, the liquids and vapors separate into components or fractions according to weight and boiling point. The lightest fractions, including gasoline and liquid petroleum gas (LPG), vaporize and rise to the top of the tower, where they condense back to liquids. Medium weight liquids, including kerosene and diesel oil distillates, stay in the middle. (Heavier liquids, called gas oils, separate lower down, while the heaviest fractions with the highest boiling points settle at the bottom.)

Crude Oil Conversion

The finishing touches occur during the final treatment. To make gasoline, Cracking and rearranging molecules adds value to the products. This is where refining's fanciest footwork takes place--where fractions from the distillation towers are transformed into streams (intermediate components) that eventually become finished products. The most widely used conversion method is called cracking because it uses heat and pressure to "crack" heavy hydrocarbon molecules into lighter ones. A cracking unit consists of one or more tall, thick-walled, bullet-shaped reactors and a network of furnaces, heat exchangers and other vessels.

Cracking and coking are not the only forms of conversion. Other refinery processes, instead of splitting molecules, rearrange them to add value. Alkylation’s, for example, makes gasoline components by combining some of the gaseous byproducts of cracking. The process, which essentially is cracking in reverse, takes place in a series of large, horizontal vessels and tall, skinny towers that loom above other refinery structures. Reforming uses heat, moderate pressure and catalysts to turn naphtha, a light, relatively low-value fraction, into high-octane gasoline components.

Crude Oil Treatment

The finishing touches occur during the final treatment. To make gasoline, refinery technicians carefully combine a variety of streams from the processing units. Among the variables that determine the blend are octane level, vapor pressure ratings and special considerations, such as whether the gasoline will be used at high altitudes. 

Crude Oil Storage

Both the incoming crude oil and the outgoing final products need to be stored. These liquids are stored in large tanks on a tank farm. Pipelines carry the final products from the tank farm near the refinery to other tanks all across the country. 

All of these activities are required to make the gasoline that powers our cars, the diesel fuel that brings our food to market, and the jet fuel that flies our planes. These provide us with the energy we need to get from place to place quickly and comfortably. 

Gasoline is made from crude oil. Refineries take crude oil and break down its hydrocarbons into different products, called “refined products,” including gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, jet fuel, liquefied petroleum gases, and residual fuel oil. The characteristics of the gasoline depend on the type of crude oil that is used and the setup of the refinery at which it is produced. Gasoline characteristics are also impacted by other ingredients that may be blended into it, such as ethanol. The performance of the gasoline must meet industry standards and environmental regulations that may depend on location. 

In 2001, United States refineries produced over 90 percent of the gasoline used in the United States. Less than 40 percent of the crude oil used by U.S. refineries was produced in the United States. About 45 percent of gasoline produced in the United States comes from refineries in the U.S. Gulf Coast (including Texas and Louisiana). 

Oil is part of a “global” market

The United States and many other countries in the world consume more refined products (i.e., gasoline, diesel, heating oil, and jet fuel) than can be produced without using crude oil that is imported from other countries. At the same time, certain countries export more crude oil than they consume. When crude oil supplies from one country/source drop off, world oil demand is still met but with a different mix of crude oil supplies. When the overall supply of crude oil decreases, the world market “tightens” and prices usually rise. 

Can consumers reduce the revenues flowing to a certain country or countries by boycotting companies that have a history of importing from those countries? 

Due to the global nature of the oil market, boycotts by individual consumers or even individual countries cannot reduce the oil revenues of a given oil producing country/countries. At best, consumer boycotts of a company known to import crude oil would result in a temporary reduction in the market share of that particular company. Because the overall consumer demand for products made from oil (like gasoline and diesel fuel) would be unchanged, the oil would simply be purchased by some other company. 

Similar market shifts would occur if an entire country or countries refused to buy oil from a certain country/region, or were legally prevented from doing so. The boycotting countries would take additional imports from different countries, and those countries would purchase additional supplies from the boycotted country/region. Due to the nature of the world oil market, it is impossible to impact the oil revenues flowing to a given country or region with anything short of a sanctions regime, wherein all countries pledge to avoid buying from a particular country. 

Can consumers impact gasoline prices? 

Consumers have very little power as individuals but, if enough consumers give the same “market signal,” they can impact prices. First, when consumers buy gasoline at service stations in their areas with the lowest price, they take market share away from higher-priced stations; these stations may then eventually reduce their prices to be more competitive. The second way consumers impact the market is by reducing gasoline consumption. If enough people reduce driving or switch to more energy-efficient vehicles, gasoline demand would decline and prices would be dampened. 

Can I tell which country or State the gasoline at my local station comes from? 

For several reasons, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) cannot definitively say where gasoline at a given station originated: 

The name on the service station sign does not tell the whole story. The fact that you purchase gasoline from a given company does not necessarily mean that the gasoline was actually produced by that particular company's refineries. While gasoline is sold at about 176,000 retail outlets across the nation1, about one-third of these stations are “unbranded” dealers that may sell gasoline of any brand2. The remainder of the outlets are “branded” stations, but may not necessarily be selling gasoline produced at that company's refineries. This is because gasoline from different refineries is often combined for shipment by pipeline, and companies owning service stations in the same area may be purchasing gasoline at the same bulk terminal. In that case, the only difference between the gasoline at station X versus the gasoline at station Y may be the small amount of additives that those companies add to the gasoline before it gets to the pump. 

Even if we knew at which company's refinery the gasoline was produced, the source of the crude oil used at that refinery may vary on a day-to-day basis. Most refiners use a mix of crude oils from various domestic and foreign sources. The mix of crude oils can change based on the relative cost and availability of crude oil from different sources. 

Can I tell which companies purchase imported crude oil or gasoline? 

It is impossible to identify which companies are selling imported gasoline, and the U.S. EIA does collect data on which companies import crude oil and refined products. However, the fact that a given company imported crude oil or gasoline does not mean that those particular imports will end-up being sold to motorists as that company's brand of gasoline. The origin of the crude oil that a refinery processes is determined by market economics at a given time and may change from month-to-month or even day-to-day. 

Call us at: 832 - 758 - 0027 for more information on how we can increase your refinery's profits and environmental compliance issues.