We transform methane into more valuable and usable energy and chemical products - all without agriculturally derived feedstocks that compete for food production.
- Methane is the simplest carbon feedstock. Our initial process utilizes clean, abundant and low-cost pipeline natural gas, followed by phase-in of waste methane as a sustainable feedstock.
- Our proprietary methanotroph synthetic biology chassis builds on nature to enable broad-based metabolic conversion of methane conversion into chemicals along with post-extraction biomass that itself constitutes a valuable protein-rich co-product.
- Methanotroph fermentation is a proven commercial technology. We improve on this with a scalable, robust aerobic process that combines oxygen with methane from diverse sources. Our process uniquely tolerates mixtures with contaminants such as ethane as well as variable constituents found anaerobic waste gases.
- Our platform is carbon-neutral to carbon-negative through process integration, extensive use of renewable energy and best-in-class CO2 recovery, conversion, and sequestration.
Net result: high efficiency and unprecedented green-process economics