Renewable Energy Focus – January 25, 2012: "OriginOil Inc plans to co-develop an integrated system with the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for the direct conversion of raw algae into renewable crude oil that can be used by existing petroleum refineries.....  

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Biodiesel Magazine – January 23, 2012: "Los Angeles-based algae technology developer and provider OriginOil Inc. and the U.S. DOE’s Idaho National Lab have announced plans to co-develop an integrated system for direct conversion of algae into renewable crude oil that can be further refined into a host of advanced biofuels and other biobased chemicals by existing petroleum refineries...."

Gas2 – January 20, 2012: "OriginOil is working with the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of Idaho to develop an “integrated system” for the direct conversion of raw algae into a renewable source of crude oil...."

Algae Industry Magazine – January 18, 2012: "If only there were enough algae to meet the demand. Algae is highly productive, soaks up toxins and CO2, and can be grown without impacting food or fresh water supplies. And it exactly replaces petroleum, because petroleum is mostly old algae...."

Energy Boom – January 17, 2012: "Over the past two months OriginOil, Inc. (OTC/BB: OOIL) has strengthened its relationship with U.S. federal government in multiple ways.  The most recent of which is an announcement of a new partnership with the Department of Energy, which will see the company work together with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to develop an integrated system capable of directly converting raw algae into renewable crude oil...."

Bio Fuel Daily – January 16, 2012: "Raw algae can be converted into a crude oil that can be processed at existing petroleum refineries before distribution as a substitute for gasoline and other processed fuels, new research has found...."

Tripple Pundit – January 16, 2012: "U.S. company OriginOil has just announced that its signature algae biofuel product will be developed as a drop-in renewable crude oil feedstock that can be processed by existing petroleum refineries...."

Los Angeles Business Journal – January 16, 2012: "OriginOil said over the weekend that, under research agreements with DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory, its proprietary harvesting process will be integrated with current biomass processing technology to create an integrated system for converting raw algae into barrels of crude oil...."

Green Technology – December 19, 2011: "Unlike many other companies in the space, OriginOil is focusing on the midstream, which is an important bottleneck in algae production. The company’s single-step extraction process requires no chemicals or significant capital expenditures, which makes it a perfect solution..."

Green Phrophet – December 19, 2011: "There are other players in our global village: California based OriginOil, an innovator in algae based biofuel technology is forming a joint venture, Future Energy Solutions Unlimited Inc (FES), with the Energime Group of Companies to test and eventually produce algae based biofuels for strategic fuel centers throughout the world...."