{"id":2545,"date":"2008-06-06T08:45:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T07:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/06\/chevron-becomes-part-of-biofuels-venture\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T09:14:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T08:14:29","slug":"chevron-becomes-part-of-biofuels-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/06\/06\/chevron-becomes-part-of-biofuels-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Chevron Becomes Part of Biofuels Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/news\/business\/1420940\/chevron_becomes_part_of_biofuels_venture\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"080606_chevron.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/080606_chevron.jpg\" title=\"080606_chevron.jpg\" alt=\"080606_chevron.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>In a move to speed the development of alternative fuels that don&#8217;t consume food crops, oil giant Chevron and timber behemoth Weyerhaeuser are setting up a joint venture called Catchlight Energy.\u00c2\u00a0 The companies said Friday the venture will pursue new technologies for converting cellulose and lignin &#8211; the compounds plants are made of &#8211; into biofuels.\u00c2\u00a0 Catchlight will initially have offices at Weyerhaeuser&#8217;s Federal Way, Wash., headquarters and at Chevron&#8217;s San Ramon, Calif., home base. Chevron executive Michael Burnside will be the new venture&#8217;s chief executive, and W. Densmore Hunter of Weyerhaeuser is chief technology officer.\u00c2\u00a0 Both firms will contribute technology and personnel. Catchlight may employ 30 to 40 people over time in its research and development effort, said Weyerhaeuser president Dan Fulton. Image Source: photobucket.com. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/news\/business\/1420940\/chevron_becomes_part_of_biofuels_venture\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">News selected by Covalence | Country: <\/span><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-GB\">USA<\/span><\/st1:place><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> | Company: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=6\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Chevron<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> | Source: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/news\/business\/1420940\/chevron_becomes_part_of_biofuels_venture\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">RedOrbit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move to speed the development of alternative fuels that don&#8217;t consume food crops, oil giant Chevron and timber behemoth Weyerhaeuser are setting up a joint venture called Catchlight Energy.\u00c2\u00a0 The companies said Friday the venture will pursue new technologies for converting cellulose and lignin &#8211; the compounds plants are made of &#8211; into&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-chevron","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}