Article: ConocoPhillips and Archer Daniels Midland Company Announce Alliance to Develop Next-Generation Biofuels.

HOUSTON & DECATUR, Ill. -- ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) and Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE:ADM) today announced that they have agreed to collaborate on the development of renewable transportation fuels from biomass.

The alliance will research and seek to commercialize two components of a next-generation biofuel production process:

* The conversion of biomass from crops, wood or switchgrass into biocrude, a non-fossil substance that can be processed into fuel; and

* The refining of biocrude to produce transportation fuel.

"ConocoPhillips believes that the development of next-generation biofuels is a critical step in the ...

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