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I usually disdain recommending investment opportunities, however, I think
this gizmo is worth mentioning. First a little background:

As oil is pumped from the ground either on dry land or especially from under the
ocean, water is usually also included in the fluid (sometimes on purpose because
water is injected into the well to help with the oil extraction). The oil/water
sauce is typically run through a simple floatation extractor which removes
some of the free oil by letting it float the surface of a tank then skimming it
off. This method removes none of the dissolved oil (oil molecules bonded to or
trapped between water molecules). This filtered water would then be dumped
overboard in the case of an off-shore well or into some nearby river or lake in
the case of an on-shore well. As you might imagine, the water systems in areas
where there are active oil wells gets pretty contaminated with oil. Fish, birds
and plants die off. The EPA has established some standards for a maximum
oil/water mixture and oil/sand (oily sand is also sucked from off-shore wells)
that can be dumped into the local environment. The standards are set based
upon what the current technology can provide (perhaps also via bribes).

The gizmo:

Glenn Gilley of Gilley and Associates has developed what is known as a Solvent
Extraction Method (SEM) of removing free and dissolved oil from production
water. It looks quite neat in its simplicity; it uses centrifugal force to
remove the free oil, injects a gas (solvent) into the water to attract the
dissolved oil and later extracts the solvent from the cleaned water to be
recycled. It can purify water to far in excess of the current EPA standards
which (I hope) will prompt the EPA to tighten up their standards. The machine
has only 1 moving part (a pump) and takes up roughly 1/10 the space of the
current SEM systems.

Minimum investment is $10,000. I have a prospectus in my office if you care to
look at it. I also have a 10 minute video tape with a demo on it.

And to satisfy the SEC:

	THIS MESSAGE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR THE
	SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY THESE OR ANY SECURITIES.

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Jan 14, 1988