South Australian resource company Beach Energy and a US business General Atomics are doing a joint study on producing biofuels in the Cooper Basin.

They are examining whether General Atomics’ technology can be used to farm algae, while reducing carbon dioxide output from Beach Energy’s gas and oil fields.

Reg Nelson from Beach Energy says oil production also generates large volumes of waste water, which are otherwise unused.

“We’re looking in particular at how we can use some of the water the we produce along with oil production in the Cooper Basin along with some carbon dioxide and of course sunlight and land to produce algae and from the algae we can produce diesel,” he said.

Source: ABC news

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