{"id":4663,"date":"2014-04-04T02:24:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T02:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2014-04-04T02:27:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T02:27:01","slug":"confirming-potential-for-commercial-algae-cultivation-aurora-algae-expands-operation-in-south-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/confirming-potential-for-commercial-algae-cultivation-aurora-algae-expands-operation-in-south-texas.html","title":{"rendered":"Confirming Potential for Commercial Algae Cultivation, Aurora Algae Expands Operation in South Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following six months of testing and evaluation, Aurora Algae has confirmed the potential for commercial-scale algae cultivation in South Texas, and is expanding its test facility, beginning with four, one-acre cultivation ponds and a harvesting system.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora Algae operated a demonstration-scale algae cultivation facility in Karratha, Western Australia, for over two-and-a-half years, successfully demonstrating production of up to 15 tonnes of dried algal biomass per month while continuing to refine its cultivation and harvesting processes. Aurora management believes the Karratha facility to have been the most technologically advanced algae production system in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Research and development activities at the Karratha facility were concluded in December 2013, and the Company turned its focus to the commercialization of its proprietary algae cultivation process.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20140402005483\/en\/Confirming-Potential-Commercial-Algae-Cultivation-Aurora-Algae#.Uz7oq_ldVqU\">http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20140402005483\/en\/Confirming-Potential-Commercial-Algae-Cultivation-Aurora-Algae#.Uz7oq_ldVqU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following six months of testing and evaluation, Aurora Algae has confirmed the potential for commercial-scale algae cultivation in South Texas, and is expanding its test facility, beginning with four, one-acre cultivation ponds and a harvesting system. Aurora Algae operated a demonstration-scale algae cultivation facility in Karratha, Western Australia, for over two-and-a-half years, successfully demonstrating production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,68,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae","category-algae-biodiesel-usa","category-algae-biodiesel","category-algae-energy-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4664,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}