kona hawaii headquarters san diego california and kailua kona hawaii u.s. key people martin a. sabarsky ceo 1 david anton coo products renew fuel renew omega 3 renew feed number of employees 30 slogan algae based products for a sustainable future website cellana.com cellana inc. is a san diego and hawaii based developer of algae based bioproducts for biofuels aquaculture and animal feeds and omega 3 nutraceutical pharmaceutical applications . cellana has received or has been a member of consortia that have received multiple multimillion dollar grants from the united states department of energy and united states department of agriculture . on june 6 2013 cellana and neste oil the world s largest refiner of renewable diesel announced the signing of a multi year commercial scale off take agreement for algae based biocrude oil . 2 cellana inc. was founded in 2004 as hr biopetroleum inc. and changed its name to cellana inc. in may 2011 . on january 31 2011 cellana llc a joint venture company formed by royal dutch shell and hr biopetroleum in 2007 became a wholly owned subsidiary of hr biopetroleum inc. cellana inc. shell had previously announced on december 11 2007 that it entered into a joint venture with hr biopetroleum to among other things build and operate a demonstration facility in hawaii for growing algae as a source of biofuels . this 2.5 hectare facility known as the kona demonstration facility kdf was completed and commissioned in 2009 . the original goal of the facility was to cultivate algae in photobioreactors and open raceway ponds filled with seawater using a proprietary process then harvest the algae and extract oil for conversion into fuels such as biodiesel as well as other co products . kdf is located on a parcel of land leased from the natural energy laboratory of hawaii authority nelha which is located on the west shore of the island of hawaii . nelha pipes in a constant supply of fresh ocean water . nelha was originally built to support a doe project for ocean thermal energy conversion and it continues to employ the project s seawater supply pipes to support a variety of research projects and commercial enterprises including facilities that currently grow and harvest microalgae for pharmaceuticals and nutritional supplements . cellana s facility grows only non genetically modified marine microalgae species using proprietary technology . references edit our team . cellana . retrieved 23 may 2014 . http cellana.com press releases cellana and neste oil enter into multi year commercial scale off take agreement for algae oil feedstock for biofuels external links edit this article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the united states government . eere official website neste oil website natural energy laboratory of hawaii authority . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cellana company & oldid 736339622 categories algae biomass producersenergy companies of the united statesalgal fuel producersjoint ventureshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameterswikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the united states governmentofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages portugu s edit links this page was last modified on 26 august 2016 at 20 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view