DeiraBio converts waste wood into a refinery-ready bio-crude through fast pyrolysis and catalytic upgrading — giving UK refiners a route to non-HEFA SAF mandate compliance, without building a new drop-in fuel plant.
DeiraBio will sell refiners a substitute crude. We will develop smaller, decentralised pyrolysis and upgrading facilities, using mature technology. The plants will convert solid biomass into a bio-crude sold at a premium to fossil crude, letting refiners make SAF.
Why do this now?
The moment for this pathway has arrived.
Every link either side of biocrude production is a mature, existing operation. The conversion step is the one part of this chain nobody in the UK is doing.
DeiraBio
Former Partner at McKinsey, responsible for Green Business Building in the UK, 2021–2026. Prior experience in oil and gas major projects. Worked extensively with oil majors, green start-ups, the waste wood value chain, hydrogen, green cement and novel power solutions, and private capital investors in the space.
Formerly VP Biomass Strategy for Drax Group. A chartered chemical engineer with over 25 years' international experience developing and executing complex, multi-billion-pound industrial projects across oil, gas and renewables in the UK, US, Scandinavia and Azerbaijan.