NULIFE
NULIFE converts biowaste into a concentrated bio‑oil and stores the CO₂ geologically in licensed salt caverns.
- Contracted tons
- 122,000
- Track
- Offtake - 2025
- Total contract value
- $44.2M
- Location
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CA
- Delivery timeline
- 2026 – 2030
The approach
Many agricultural and industrial sites produce biowaste such as oat hulls from milling, grease‑trap waste from food processors, sludge from canola crushing or biosolids from wastewater treatment.
That biowaste is fed into a sealed vessel where the temperature and pressure are raised, breaking the material down into new substances. Most of the carbon becomes a thick liquid called bio‑oil. That liquid is then injected more than 1,000 meters underground into licensed salt caverns for long‑term storage.
The case for NULIFE
NULIFE converts a local waste problem into a verifiable carbon removal pathway. Rather than stockpiling or spreading bio-residues like oat hulls, sludge, and grease—which would emit greenhouse gases as they decompose—NULIFE turns that material into bio‑oil and stores it in licensed underground caverns. In doing so, the company gives plant managers a disposal option and creates a steady supply of material for measured removals.
The approach is already delivering verified tons. NULIFE's Ontario Avenue site has logged thousands of operating hours on commercial HTL processors and has delivered tons independently verified by Isometric. Those deliveries and the ongoing operations reduce the technical and measurement uncertainty that often surround early-stage projects.
Concentrating waste into bio‑oil makes transport and storage practical. Raw biowaste (especially wet waste) is low in carbon density and costly to move. By turning it into a carbon-rich liquid, each truck can carry far more carbon per trip, enabling aggregation from many sites and centralized injection into permitted caverns rather than requiring an injection well near a waste source.
HTL could deliver at gigaton-scale. NULIFE's process works on a wide range of biomass waste types, including dry biomass, such as woody biomass and crop residues, as well as wet waste like manure and sewage sludge. Given this flexibility, Frontier estimates HTL could reach 1.5 gigatons of CO₂ removal per year by 2040.
Pricing and delivery
The total offtake amount from Frontier buyers is $44M for 122,000 tons. The price accounts for both the removal itself as well as measuring, reporting and verifying (MRV) that each ton is safely and permanently stored.
