Green View President Mark Wentworth yesterday said work is about 80 percent complete on the project, which has an estimated cost of $10 million to $12 million. Well be producing [API] Group II base oil, Wentworth told Lube Report. Wentworth anticipates the plant will sell the rerefined base oil to compound blenders in the New England region. The company doesnt yet have an estimate on production capacity.

The initial processing capacity will be five million gallons of waste oil per year, Wentworth said. We did build our tank farm, utilities and that type of thing to accommodate future expansion, he noted. Green View collects waste oil, he said, and it will also buy waste oil from other collection companies in the region.

The plant will also produce distillate fuel and an asphalt product. According to Town of Rollinsford documents, the facility is expected to create 25 jobs, including operators, technicians, support staff and truck drivers.

Wentworth described Rollinsford as a strategic location in New Hampshire, halfway between Boston, Mass., and Portland, Maine. We feel its a good regional location to service the New England area, he said.

Green View started the engineering and permit process for the project in late 2009, according to Wentworth. The company began the infrastructure and utilities portion of the project in 2010. Late summer 2011 is a tentative target date. Were still waiting for some of the equipment to arrive, he said.

Green View chose Pesco Beam of Roanoke, Va., to provide the rerefinerys equipment and technology. Pesco Beam also worked on Heartland Petroleums Columbus, Ohio, rerefinery, which has 1,500 barrels per day of Group II capacity. We looked at several of their plants and found that was the best fit for our operation, Wentworth noted.

According to Rollinsford government documents, the town was awarded a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant for Green Views project, of which $480,000 was loaned to the company for the purchase of a clay filtration unit. Added in the processing pipeline, it is designed to remove pollutants.