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Date: January 14, 1988 12:01
From: CHARM::SHEPPERD
To: @sys$mail:junk,SHEPPERD
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. ds x1711
Jan 14, 1988