A small pilot plant could be built within five years.
It's a pilot plant, to find out if this process will really work.
The next stage of development will be to build a larger pilot plant.
We have the basic equipment for a pilot plant now.
In September 2011, it produced the first oil at its new pilot plant.
They expect to build and begin operating a pilot plant by the end of 2009.
This has worked very well at the pilot plant in Hawaii.
But they never found the little one, the pilot plant.
In 2006, preparations for a construction of a pilot plant started.
The company hopes to have a pilot plant operational by the end of 2014 or 2015.
