Louisiana Green Fuels project
Pioneering carbon-negative renewable fuels from agroforestry waste biomass
Strategic Biofuels LLC
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Port of Columbia, Louisiana, USA
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2020–Ongoing
On route to becoming the world’s first carbon-negative SAF plant.
Designed to produce up to 33.7 million gallons of renewable fuel per year from forestry waste.
Sequestering 1.36 million metric tons of CO2 per year
Awarded Project of the Year, Biofuels Digest
Challenges
- Strategic Biofuels aims to develop North America’s first agroforestry-derived biomass-to-renewable-fuels project with carbon capture sequestration (CCS).
- Integrating multiple third-party technologies for efficient syngas production and fuel conversion.
- Optimizing key performance attributes and capital and operating costs, while driving the carbon intensity deeply negative to create a safe, innovative, and sustainable asset.
Solutions
- Partnered with Strategic Biofuels since early 2020 at the inception of the Louisiana Green Fuels project.
- Developed an integrated process flow scheme, incorporating several third-party technologies critical to the production of syngas from biomass and the conversion of the syngas into liquid fuels.
- This included all supporting facilities for solids handling, effluent treatment, and utility systems for the provision of oxygen, steam, power, and water.
- Focused on optimizing plant performance while concurrently driving down carbon intensity to deliver a safe, innovative, and sustainable asset.
- Leveraged our multidiscipline and multi-domain expertise to manage the engineering of balance-of-plant systems, rail design, CO2 pipeline routing, and raw water intake design.
- Incorporated proactive planning for modular construction in a preliminary 3D model.
Solutions
- The plant converts biomass into a renewable sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
- Constructed on a 171-acre site, the plant is designed to produce up to 33.7 million gallons of renewable fuel per year from forestry waste.
- Completed the CCS Test Well Program, a significant milestone to becoming the world’s first carbon negative SAF plant.
- Expected to convert approximately 1 million tons per year of forestry waste into ultra carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
- The plant will sequester 1.36 million metric tons per year of CO2, the equivalent of removing nearly 300,000 passenger cars from the road.
- Awarded Project of the Year and Developer of the Year (Project Vision) in Biofuels Digest’s 2025 Best of the Bioeconomy Awards
“Hatch has expertly tied together all our fuel production technologies and integrated it with the power plant design.”
Challenges
- 32 million gallons of renewable fuel production per year
- 1.36 million metric tons of CO2 expected to be sequestered per year
- 171-acre site at the Port of Columbia, Louisiana