Innovative provider of low-cost sustainable energy solutions
Innovative Solutions Provider
The environmental transition of energy and commerce requires innovative solutions that are both sustainable and profitable. Optima helps our clients and partners identify, develop and commercialize new process technologies and solutions with lower costs and environmental impact. Optima is driving change today by providing global experience in engineering, investment banking, and economic cost modelling.
Known Partners
Optima’s team has a proven project development record with known industry partners in engineering, shipping, energy and investment banking.
Skid Mounted Modular Process Systems
- Organic matter:
- Wood and manure for green diesel
- Hemp for cannabinoid (CBD)
- Improved and lower carbon footprint treatment of fossil fuels
- Conversion of waxy crude to flowing crude
- Basic sediment and water (BS&W) from fracking water
- Used motor oil to low sulfur diesel
- Crude oil to low sulfur marine fuel
Heavy Oil Upgrading
Low-cost lower carbon footprint heavy oil upgrading. Benefits to industry include:.
- Unlocking stranded heavy oil
- Providing feedstocks for the petrochemical industry
- Cleaner feedstocks for transport fuels emissions reduction
- Help low Nelson index refiners by providing feedstock they can handle
Low-cost contaminant removing modular upgrader
- Treats bitumen, waxy crudes, residuals, waste oils, waxy crudes, unconventional crudes
Desulfurization
Low-cost desulfurization and demetalization which reduce emissions in transport fuels.
Benefits include:
- reduce emissions in transport fuels.
- Aiding low Nelson index refiners survive by allowing them to clean crude products cost effectively
- Low pressure and heat desulfurization technologies for ship- based desulfurization at required locations for IMO compliant 2020 LSFO.
- Land-based desulfurization
Two technology partners for 2021-2022 launch.
Leveraging team’s ship-based experience for mobile solution cheaper than land-based retrofit.
Our Team
Optima’s team is an experienced group of energy professionals, entrepreneurs, and investment bankers led by Tyson Halsey, Raphael Rojas, Neil Winward, Mitch Bulajic, and Peter Veillon. Rojas brings decades of experience in the oil and gas, commodities, and investments as CEO of Venro Petroleum. Winward, the founding partner of Dakota Ridge Capital, helps investors, developers, banks, non-profits, and family offices unlock massive tax savings by fully leveraging government incentives such as the “IRA” or Inflation Reduction Act. Bulajic specializes in corporate finance, market intelligence, investment banking, and Gen AI engineering. This diverse skill set enables him to uncover new business opportunities, optimize resource allocation, and effectively manage risks. Bulajic’s strategic initiatives have consistently delivered over 30% business growth, aligning financial strategies with his organizational goals.