OriginOil Selects Award-Winning Engineering Firm for Product Rollout

PACE will fast-track market availability of Single Step Extraction systems. Los Angeles, CA — July 27, 2011 — OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to extract oil from algae and an emerging leader in the global algae oil services industry, today announced it has selected Pacific Advanced civil Engineering, Inc. (PACE) of Fountain Valley, California, to fast-track the rollout of its line of Single Step Extraction™systems in response to immediate customer demand.