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3. Expanding Our Impact: The EBTL™ Project Pipeline

Expander is advancing a pipeline of EBTL™ (Enhanced Biomass to Liquids) projects across Western Canada, including Slave Lake, Fort St John, Dawson Creek, and Alberta's Industrial Heartland. These future facilities are designed to convert local biomass into significant volumes of renewable fuels annually, integrating Carbon Capture for near-zero or negative emissions.

3. Expanding Our Impact: The EBTL™ Project Pipeline

Expander Energy is actively developing a robust pipeline of future commercial facilities across Western Canada, each designed to leverage our advanced EBTL™ (Enhanced Biomass to Liquids) technology. This innovative process is central to our strategy for achieving deep decarbonization, as it efficiently converts locally sourced cellulosic biomass into premium renewable fuels while integrating Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to target near-zero or even negative emissions.


Strategic Focus of Our EBTL™ Facilities:


Our planned EBTL™ facilities share common strategic and technological foundations:

  • Core Technology: Each facility will utilize Expander's proprietary EBTL™ process.

  • Key Components: Incorporating our ETI Tar-Free Gasifiers, advanced Fischer-Tropsch (FT) Synthesis, Isomerization Units, and integrated Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) systems.

  • Sustainable Feedstocks: Designed to process a variety of locally sourced cellulosic biomass, such as forestry residues and agricultural waste.

  • Premium Products: Will produce high-quality Bio-SynDiesel®, Bio-SynJet®, Bio-Naphtha and Bio-wax.

  • Significant Scale: Each new standalone facility is planned to have a substantial annual production capacity, anticipated to be between 500 and 2500 barrels per day (30 to 150 million liters/year), contributing significantly to the renewable fuel supply.

  • Development Status: All projects listed are currently in our active development pipeline.


Key Regions Targeted for EBTL™ Development:


We are progressing project development in several key regions known for their abundant biomass resources and/or suitability for Carbon Capture and Storage:


  • Slave Lake, Alberta

  • Carseland, Alberta (Future Expansion): This involves a planned future expansion of our flagship Wheatland site, incorporating additional EBTL™ capacity.

  • Fort St John, British Columbia

  • Dawson Creek, British Columbia

  • Alberta's Industrial Heartland, Alberta

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