Facilities

Our Florida-based company offers a path to sustainable and clean energy independence while promoting local job growth.

Melbourne Corporate Headquarters

PetroAlgae's corporate headquarters are located in Melbourne, Florida. This facility houses our executive and administrative offices, our finance, business development, operations and our information technology departments. It also includes meeting space and our computer network and communications infrastructure.

NASA Kennedy Space Center Space Life Sciences Laboratory

PetroAlgae has a license to use approximately 1,000 square feet in the NASA Kennedy Space Center Space Life Sciences Laboratory in Cape Canaveral, Florida, which provides it with dedicated space and access to the laboratory’s analysis capabilities for chemistry, molecular biology, microscopy and microbiology. The controlled environmental chambers allow PetroAlgae to control and manipulate environmental parameters, such as climate, temperature, day/night cycles and seasonal cycles to simulate growing conditions for research purposes as well as to understand climate conditions around the world. PetroAlgae benefits from access to NASA engineering, scientific and analytical expertise available in the facility.

Gateway Research Lab Facility

PetroAlgae has a laboratory in Melbourne, Florida designed for chemical analyses, culture storage, backup inoculum growth, bench top research experiments and fast turnaround analysis of field samples. In addition, the laboratory has extensive analysis capabilities.

Fellsmere Field-Scale Research and Development Working Demonstration Facility

PetroAlgae has constructed its primary field-scale research and development working demonstration facility in Fellsmere, Florida. The facility provides demonstration-scale live operation of all portions of our processes, as well as indoor and outdoor empirical testing and laboratory analysis.