Nova Biosource Fuels, Inc. (Nova), formerly Nova Oil, Inc., is an energy company in the business of refining and marketing renewable diesel fuel products and related co-products. Nova has developed technology for the production of biodiesel fuel from animal and vegetable fats, oils and greases. It also designs and constructs facilities for the production of biodiesel fuels. It owns three flow biodiesel refineries. Its largest full scale refinery is located in Seneca, Illinois and has an annual biodiesel production capacity of 60,000,000 gallons per year. Its second full scale refinery is located in Clinton County, Iowa and has an annual biodiesel production capacity of 10,000,000 gallons per year. In March 2009, Nova Biosource Fuels, Inc. announced that the Company and certain of its subsidiaries (collectively, the Companies) filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.