Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

ConocoPhillips, Tyson Foods Form Alliance For Animal Fat-Biodiesel

ConocoPhillips and Tyson Foods Inc. have formed a strategic alliance for the production of biodiesel from beef, pork and chicken fat from Tyson rendering plants. ConocoPhillips will prepare several refineries to process the fuel while Tyson will make capital improvements this summer at some of its rendering plants to start pre-processing animal fat. The companies said they expect to start production by the end of 2007 and to eventually reach 175,000,000 gpy of biodiesel.

Contact: Bill Tanner, ConocoPhillips, telephone: (281) 293-2801, email: william.e.tanner@conocophillips.com, www.conocophillips.com. Gary Mickelson, Tyson, (479) 290-6111, www.tyson.com