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I feel your pain, I think you did the prudent thing.
Heck 10 million in non dilutive financing in the past few weeks.
Those with money think a profit split will yield them a hefty return on their money.
Should do the same for us, no need for dilution going forward,none. and a small float.
But yes, very frustrating share price action!!!!!!!
I am shocked, seller continues to sell all day everyday. If i were selling i would give it a break now and then. I think it could have run today, great news. non dilutive money, revs for 30 year, lg partner.
Seller keeps selling, Share price goes down.
It is was it is.
Got to love this paragraph.
In a non-dilutive project debt partnership, H2O Investments will provide the capital to drill the production well and build-out a water station to sell water to producers. Additionally, they will construct a short pipeline to implement the sale of water to STW’s municipal water customers. The Company has maintained a monitor well less than a mile away that has already been drilled. The monitor well has been tested and shows production rates of one million plus gallons per day through a much smaller hole size than is planned for the production well. The size of the hole on this production well will be much larger in diameter and the Company is expecting larger volumes of water per day
I hope so,
Very Lg firm to be partnering with our little stws.
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/STWS/news?id=105836
STW Resources Signs Project Finance Agreement for $4.55 Million Initially to Drill and Commercialize the Ft. Stockton Water Lease
And its non dilutive!!!!!
May 28, 2015
OTC Disclosure & News Service
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STW Resources Holding Corp, (OTCQB: STWS), an integrated provider of water management, including water processing, desalination, reclamation and remediation, and oilfield services, announced today that the company has signed an agreement with H2O Investments, a world renowned water processing and reclamation company and family investment office in Houston, Texas, to finance the well development program for the Ft. Stockton, Texas lease. The 11 well development agreement with Ft. Stockton is an integral part of STW Water’s initial West Texas Water Project for the “design, engineer, build, and own model.”
David Bruce, President of H2O Investments, stated, “Our investment in the Ft Stockton lease is the beginning of a successful partnership with STW for many years to come. H2O Investments is pleased to be part of a project that provides a new source of water to the people of West Texas.”
In a non-dilutive project debt partnership, H2O Investments will provide the capital to drill the production well and build-out a water station to sell water to producers. Additionally, they will construct a short pipeline to implement the sale of water to STW’s municipal water customers. The Company has maintained a monitor well less than a mile away that has already been drilled. The monitor well has been tested and shows production rates of one million plus gallons per day through a much smaller hole size than is planned for the production well. The size of the hole on this production well will be much larger in diameter and the Company is expecting larger volumes of water per day.
The West Texas Water Project has a large impact for the citizens and industry of West Texas. It will eventually be part of a master water plan lasting 50 to 100 years to insure that West Texans have an ample supply of fresh water. Since West Texas is naturally an arid region and with low volumes of available fresh water, without an alternative source of fresh water, the municipalities and industry in West Texas will not be able to grow and flourish. Only with a concerted effort to build out water infrastructure and utilizing available aquifers, will West Texas accomplish their economic goals. The three hydrogeological reports/studies that have been performed on the Capitan Reef in this area indicate there are approximately 14 million acre-feet or 5.6 trillion gallons of fresh water available.
The consulting firm over the project is 25-year veteran Lane Drilling Consultants (LDC) based out of Midland, Texas. O’Ryan Drilling which has operated in the Permian Basin for 10 years drilling for Oil and Gas, as well as developing numerous municipal water wells, owns the drilling rig that the company will be utilizing on the initial well.
Timeline for First of Eleven Development Wells Begins in June
STW has begun preparing the lease to move the rig on site by building the pad and the initial rathole. The triple stack rig (Rig #7) from O’Ryan is scheduled to arrive in early June. It will take approximately two days to rig up and test all equipment before they are ready to commence drilling operations or “spud” the well.
Once the well has reached total depth and logged and completed the well, STW will then install the pump to a depth of 300’-500’ depending on water level in the hole. STW and the hydrogeologist will then begin a 72-hour pump test to determine drawdown of the water level and determine flow rates and volume. The anticipated pumping capacity is expected to be anywhere from 1700gpm to 2800gpm (gallons per minute) or 2.5 – 4.0 million gallons of water per day. STW will also run a full water analysis to meet all Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) requirements for municipal water. A hydrogeological report/study by a licensed third party firm to evaluate the reserves in place will be performed. As water production rates and reserves are proven, added value is created on the company’s balance sheet.
Alan Murphy, President of STW Water, said, “This is the first of eleven wells slated for drilling on the Ft. Stockton lease. We have worked on this Project for 4+ years and I’m very excited about moving forward at this time. Knowing that this well is the offset to our monitor well that has been tested to produce 1+ million gallons per day makes it even more exciting since I consider this a development well and not exploratory since we know the water is there. Also, I am expecting significantly more production from this hole since we are drilling a much larger hole on this well compared to the monitor well. Once we have this well up and running, we will move to drilling and completing the other ten wells as delineated in our well development agreement with the City of Ft. Stockton.”
One compelling reason/delsal contract puts us up 100% from here pretty fast.
But they have to execute.
TW Resources Holding Corp Releases First Quarterly Report for 2015, Posts $2.7 Million in Revenues
May 28, 2015 08:30:00 (ET)
Company Reports Significant Increase in Gross Profit Margins
MIDLAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2015--
STW Resources Holding Corp. (OTCQB: STWS) a quality provider of oilfield services, water reclamation and processing management services including water desalination, and rig cleaning services, announced today that its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2015 have been filed on its Form 10-Q Quarterly Report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). A detailed Form 10-Q is available on the company web site.
STWS reported revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2015, of $2,679,401. While this represents a 25.6% reduction in revenues from the quarter ended March 31, 2014, gross profit during the first quarter of 2015 increased by $379,599, or 90% over the same quarter of 2014. The Company's gross profit margin during the three months ended March 31, 2015, increasing to 30% compared to 12% during the three months ending March 31, 2014. The company demonstrated increased margin expansion in the last three quarters of 2014 and first quarter of 2015. This significant improvement in gross profit margin demonstrates the success of management's initiatives to reduce overall costs, including cost of revenues, improved operating efficiencies, and shedding less profitable revenues sources. The Company expects to report significant quarter-to-quarter revenue growth from its expanding water reclamation business, water sales and the midstream pipeline business. STWS will manage this growth with a focus on profitability.
The non-GAAP net loss, which is net loss adjusted for non-cash expenses including stock based compensation, amortization of debt discount, and change in derivative liability, was $1,762,439 for the three months ended March 31, 2015, compared to $2,172,236 for the three months ended March 31, 2014, an improvement of $415,797, or 24%.
During the three months ended March 31, 2015, the Company raised $1,375,000 of convertible notes from accredited investors. The Company also closed an initial $5.0 million non equity based credit facility to fund STW Water's design, engineer and build projects. This credit facility will allow the company to execute on high margin water reclamation projects that continue to be in demand within the company's market area.
Stanley Weiner, STW Resources' CEO, said, "We are pleased to have filed our first quarter 2015 report with the SEC. With our capital constraints now lifted, we can now begin executing on a number of high margin projects. As the company continues to win contracts with these larger profit margins, concentrate on water reclamation services and beginning the build out of the Ft. Stockton Lease, margins should expand even further. The direct results of this margin expansion are reduced debt and enhanced profitability."
Weiner continued, "We are very excited about the work currently underway in our STW Water business unit. We have been busy working on building a pipeline of business with the DyVaR desalination technology and preparing for the Ft. Stockton well development project."
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About STW Resources Holding Corp.
STW Resources Holdings Corp, (OTCQB: STWS) is a quality provider of oilfield services, water reclamation and processing management services, and rig cleaning services through its three subsidiaries. STW Water is a Total Water Solutions Provider Company and provides turnkey design build solutions and provides its Customers with "out-of-the-box" design solutions to meet customer's water needs. STW Water has capabilities to provide complete oversight of various water and wastewater projects with primary focus on engineering, regulatory permitting including Public Water Systems (PWS), Discharge permits, Pilot exception and Pilot Study, equipment design & treatment process design, manufacturing & installation and full scale Commissioning and training for all types of oil & gas, industrial and municipal water and wastewater markets throughout the State of Texas. STW's model of water ownership has had recent successes and broken ground on both Upton County and Ft. Stockton, Texas projects.
The Company consults and provides customized water analysis, reclamation and remediation services to a variety of complex oil and gas produced and flowback water, brackish water, ocean water desalination, industrial, and municipal applications throughout several geographic locations to fill a tremendous need for fresh water in the areas they service. As an independent solutions provider, STW utilizes proven technologies, from various well-known manufacturers, including Salttech, a Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) technology that is economically feasible to use. These technologies are available as fixed or mobile units with varying capabilities. STW's process ensures that the most effective and efficient technologies are implemented. The Salttech system can process any saline laden water with Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) levels ranging from 5,000 ppm to >300,000 ppm. Current potential project locations include the Eagle Ford Shale (TX), the west Texas Delaware and Permian Basins (TX), eastern New Mexico, and ocean desalination projects on the Gulf Coast of Texas, California, and Hawaii.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: If STW's Proprietary Technology is placed in-line with a Seawater Reverse Osmosis System or used with a geothermal operation, there will be no potentially environmentally sensitive brine concentrate discharged into the local waterways since the system is Zero Liquid Discharge and 95-97%+ of the fresh water is recovered in the process. The waste stream is salt crystals and minerals. This is a completely Blue/Green operation that provides a sustainable supply of power and water for municipal and industrial use.
STW uses the latest technology to install new pipelines and repair and maintain aging water, and oil & gas pipelines (STW Pipeline).
Been screaming it for a long while, like a baby with colic.
Welcome, I think your timing put you in very close to the bottom.
I wish I would have learned about this last week, although I did capitalize on an earlier trade.
Buys out numbering sells 20 to 1, light volume.
Gltu
It is so hard to call the bottom when the price is in "no mans land" on the chart.
Hope to see the q today or thursday, should give some nice numbers and direction.
I am pretty tapped out, bought my last at .49.
We shall see.
Quadruple bottom, very very bullish.
4th time I have called bottom. lol
Will not go lower than .40.
We shall see.
I will wait and buy more on confirmation of a turn, I know I will pay more, but I have been buying shares at a sale price for while.
GLTA Longs
They forgot to mention in the below release that they filed a 5 day extension on their Q, Then failed to file the Q in the extension period. I would say that is a accomplishment.
I am still positive and think it turns hard.
Friday 22nd May 2015
WATER MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
& OILFIELD SERVICES
CORPORATE NEWSLETTER OTCQB: STWS
A Brief Note From Our CEO
As the summer season is ushered in with Memorial Day, we at STW Resources would like to take time to honor those Americans who served in the military and who fell on numerous battlefields to make the life that we enjoy today possible. Indeed, there is much for which to be thankful, yet we must always remain vigilant.
In our specialized corner of the world, it is water on which we focus our vigilance--particularly as summer approaches and the dry states contemplate the ever-growing threat to our way of life posed by dwindling fresh water supplies.
With this in mind, we have some exciting news this month:
• We held a successful demonstration of the STW Salttech Water Desalination Technology in Austin, Texas for Texas legislators and their staff members, the Texas Water Development Board and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality representatives, and a number of stakeholders in attendance representing water district, municipal, industrial, water trade organization, oil and gas, geothermal energy, land acquisition, construction, water treatment, lobby, investment, and engineering interests.
• Our own Alan Murphy, President of STW Water, had the pleasure to make a presentation of our technology at the SMU Power Plays GeoThermal Conference in Dallas, and last, but certainly not least …
• We closed an initial $5 million financing arrangement to capitalize STW Water’s desalination and water reclamation services
All in all, it’s been a fantastic month for us, and we hope you will enjoy reading about it in detail below.
Stanley T. Weiner
CEO and Chairman of the Board
$5 Million Capitalization
We are very pleased to announce that on May 5th we signed an agreement with a Houston-based family investment office to finance STW Water’s design, engineer and build model and our design, build, own, and operate model. This enables STW to design and sell the equipment and also to own the equipment and process water on a fee basis per gallon of water.
While we were already working on two major projects—the $3.3-million Horizon City project and the $2.8-million oil company water facility project--this $5 million non-equity-linked capital infusion means that we can immediately begin several additional projects. We have 9 additional projects that we can now begin within the next 6-9 months, which will, in turn, enable us to continue to grow at an impressive pace.
These additional projects under this new capitalization will primarily focus on water in the dry states of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and California. The annual revenues from these projects will range from $1.5 million to $4+ million with gross profit margins of between 27% and 30%.
If you’ve missed our earlier newsletters and press releases—STW Water has a 30-year exclusive agreement with the City of Fort Stockton, Texas, which has awarded us the rights to drill for and produce water from the water reserves of the Capitan Reef Aquifer, which has the potential to supply a number of municipalities without in any way compromising the reservoir’s integrity. Here, we are planning 11 production wells, which are expected to generate approximately 2.5+ million gallons of water per day, per well. We also have the right to drill wells in the brackish water aquifers. We expect to drill the first well in the next 30 days.
Another Successful Demonstration
On May 13th and 14th, we had the opportunity to demonstrate our STW Salttech DyVaR water desalination system in Austin, Texas. This was a key demonstration of our technology with influential attendees ranging from regulatory authorities and municipal authorities to oil and gas company representatives and engineers.
For the demonstration, we obtained water samples directly from the Gulf of Mexico and processed the salt water through the DyVaR system, revealing the results to those in attendance. An independent third party verified the results in a certified water laboratory, which clearly and transparently demonstrated the high-level performance capacity of the system to turn the Gulf of Mexico into a new source of fresh water for Americans.
We are spreading the word that STW Resources is a company with the necessary expertise in the specialized sector of water reclamation and desalination by educating and creating awareness for a technology system that will change the way we think about water--and the future. The overriding message we are sending with these demonstrations is that water is precious, and the economic consequences will be severe without an economically viable and environmentally friendly technology offered by the STW Salttech DyVaR Technology.
STW Resources have plans to conduct numerous additional demonstrations across the State of Texas in the coming months.
Major Turn of Events for Desalination
Recently, the State of Texas passed HB 2031, which will reduce the time required for approval of marine water desalination projects. For us, this represents a very fortuitous recognition of the need for a purification system such as the STW DyVaR.
Earlier this month, the Texas legislature referred to the Senate Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs Committee, a major bill—HB 2031--designed to boost desalination projects in the state. We are extremely optimistic about this bill because it will streamline the process for requesting desalination permits. This means that Texas is truly ready to explore and expedite the development of all of its potential brackish and ocean water resources—and we are ready to play a prominent role in this initiative.
Also, this month the State of California’s State Water Resources Control Board approved the first statewide standards for building desalination plants to treat seawater from the Pacific Ocean. The approval will set rules to allow regional water boards in California to evaluate applications to build and operate desalination plants.
Power Plays—The SMU Conference
We were also honored this month to have STW Resources’ Alan Murphy invited to speak at the SMU Power Plays GeoThermal Conference at the SMU campus in Dallas.
This was another great opportunity for us to showcase our STW Salttech desalination technology and to come together with great minds in the geothermal and oil and gas fields to discuss water—one of the most pressing issues of our time. Utilizing our desalination technology with geothermal creates a completely Blue/Green environmentally and sustainable supply of electricity and fresh water. If used on seawater, there will be no salty concentrated by-product discharged into the local waterways as the DyVaR technology is a zero liquid discharge system that recovers 95-97% of the freshwater from a gallon of seawater and the reject is salt crystals and minerals. If the DyVaR is not utilized, the seawater reverse osmosis system only recovers 35-50% of the fresh water and the concentrated salty reject is either deposited in disposal wells or returned to the ocean with the potential of creating environmentally harmful results to marine life.
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In the meantime, we look forward to “making waves” across the dry states by building awareness of our new technology, utilizing our new capitalization to realize even more ambitious projects, and benefiting from the clearing of some very important regulatory hurdles that collectively illustrate just how timely it is to forge full speed ahead with desalination.
I hope you enjoyed the newsletter, and we’ll be back again next month.
IMO this stock is way way undervalued at this time.
What words can I use, absurd . laughable, risible, idiotic, stupid, foolish, silly, inane.
Buying more today.
GLTA Longs
BTW thanks for reposting that old pr.
Jim Rogers On The Coming Water Wars
Submitted by Erico Matias Tavares of Sinclair & Co.
Water - An Interview with Jim Rogers
Jim Rogers, Jr. is an American businessman, investor and author. He is currently based in Singapore. Rogers is the Chairman of Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests, Inc. He was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI).
Erico Tavares: Jim, thank for being with us today. We would like to talk about water and other agricultural inputs, something you have been very vocal about in recent years.
To set the stage for today’s topic, a few years ago we worked on a biofuels project which took us all around the world. In a trip to Bolivia a pioneering Austrian engineer involved in the sector told us something very interesting. At that time the price of vegetable oils was much cheaper than diesel, prompting many people to start building biofuels facilities across Europe. He said this was crazy and in no way sustainable because crude oil is and always will be the lowest common denominator in an economy.
He was right, and many biofuels today need government support in order to be viable. But looking at the world we can argue that the lowest common denominator is in fact water. Even crude oil increasingly depends on it, particularly in the US with all the fracking. You are known for being ahead of the curve in many markets. As you look at the water situation across the globe, what do you see?
Jim Rogers: Water is one of the great opportunities of our times. If you look at the world there are some huge shortages developing in some parts but there is also a lot of water in other parts, just in the wrong place – like water in Siberia for instance, which is not where most people are.
There are going to be wars in the Middle East over oil east of the Red Sea, but west of that there will be wars over water since there are serious water problems in that region. We will also have problems in the western parts of the US with the depletion of a big aquifer, from what I read.
So we have a lot of water problems in a lot of places. California is making the news right now, but that is not the only place at risk. And if you can figure out ways to clean or transport or pump water you are going to do very well.
ET: Let’s focus on China first, a country you know well. There are reports that a vast proportion of their pure water resources is contaminated, an unfortunate outcome of their rapid industrialization process. Do you have a view on the situation there? Is the Chinese government starting to address the issue?
JR: China has got gigantic water problems. First they have the water in the wrong place and second the water is filthy, terribly polluted in many cases. So the Chinese know that and they are spending a lot of money trying to figure that out. So someone is going to make a lot of money in China helping them to solve their own water problems.
That’s the opportunity right now. Figure out how to get the water from the wrong place to the right place, clean it up and you can get very rich.
ET: We have been involved with companies that are developing innovative ways to do just that. However, one recurring issue is cost. Water ends up being much more expensive once you treat or transport it. So do you think we could actually face some constraints on how to improve access to that resource despite the significant opportunity?
JR: There is no question that we are facing constraints. They are already here in many parts of the world. Water, I presume, is going to get very expensive or else we are going to move to where the water is. This is how societies and civilizations have developed. Once upon a time there was a lot of farming in the Sahara desert that we now know of. It is now a desert and everybody moved away because there is no more water there.
Water is the single most important determination of civilization. I travelled around the world a couple of times and I have seen whole societies that disappeared because the water disappeared. People can survive recession and war, revolution and famine, plague, but they cannot survive without water. That ends the whole story, no matter how smart you think you are.
We have to move or it becomes very expensive, but you have to move because you got to have the water.
ET: Well here in Singapore it rains quite a bit so you guys might do OK.
JR: Actually Singapore is one of the most advanced places for solving water problems, because they have to. They recycle water, figured out ways to capture the water. One of the worries is that if they go to war with Malaysia that would be the end of the story, because Malaysia would just cut off the water. Fortunately, they are not at war and Singapore has been hard at work – I believe that we are now 90% self-sufficient, but still, you got to have the water.
ET: India has been one of the very bright spots in the emerging markets sector lately. Food is obviously very important there, given its weight on disposable income and so forth. A food security professor told us that he recently flew over a large agricultural area there, and salty spots were starting to become very apparent as a result of over-drainage from underground reservoirs. Once salt takes over those lands become unproductive, and this is being reported in other areas as well. Are you aware of this issue? More broadly, is food prices one of the things you track when considering investing in an emerging economy?
JR: To repeat, if you don’t have water you can’t make it. I’m wildly bullish on China but if they don’t solve the water problem there’s no China story. Likewise India has a water problem, worse in fact. There’s no question that India will be in worse shape than China. Northern India has gigantic problems. And that’s a nation of a billion people. Add another 1.3 billion in China and you have a big water problem.
There are great opportunities in water. I haven’t found one that is publicly listed as of yet. I am sure there are several, I am just too lazy to find them. But I would love to find water plays that are substantial and serious.
The problem with water is that you can’t own it. Because if you do, when the crisis comes the politicians will hang you in the public square because you are exploiting Man’s God given right to water. And they will curse and scream at you. But if you find a way to solve the water problem they will build a monument for you. You will be very, very rich. But for goodness sake don’t own the water because if you do they will take it away from you, torture you and execute you.
ET: It looks like California might have yet another dry year ahead. As we all know, the Golden State produces an incredible amount of all varieties of food, which will be impacted if they don’t start getting a lot of water soon. Major reservoirs are already at extremely low levels, and we may be seeing a reversion to a much drier period which actually has been prevalent over the last 1000 years in that region. Is this something that concerns you, not only as an American but also looking at global food supplies as a whole?
JR: The whole Southwest is facing a serious water problem. The aquifer, based on what I read, is drying up out there. And not just in California but all over the Southwest. And if that happens America will have to absorb a gigantic change. If you have water and productive land you will be very, very rich. Because whether we like it or not – now this is not going to happen next year, I don’t think California is going to become a desert any time soon – it is a process which is going on, from what I can read.
And from what I can see nobody in the government seems to know or care about it. The government of California is learning but they are not solving the problem, they are deliberating about the problem. But again it is just not the US, there many places in the world with problems – China, India, the Middle East, many places have big water problems.
ET: Switching gears a bit, you are also a director of a fertilizer company. Do you see constraints developing on that side of the equation going forward?
JR: Well, we all read the same thing, that the supply of phosphorous, which is a vital fertilizer, is not unlimited and will run out at some point in the future. I’m a director of a phosphorous fertilizer company.
This is another reason for people to learn about farming and agriculture. You can farm without fertilizer, people have done that for a long time. But it is less efficient and if you start having phosphorous problems, fertilizer problems and water problems then, my God, there are 7 billion people in the world and there haven’t always been 7 billion people in the world. We may have gigantic changes again.
Civilization shifts again. Not might, we will. This is something that has been going on since the beginning of time. If you see where Mankind has lived over the centuries, I mentioned the Sahara, you mentioned California. There will be great investment opportunities; but longer term there are staggering implications.
ET: You have spoken about the advanced age of many farmers in key countries around the world, such as in the US, Canada, Great Britain and Japan. The demographics in this sector look particularly appalling. What needs to happen so that young people start getting more interested in this activity? Technology development? Higher prices? Do you see a shift occurring here in all your discussions around the world?
JR: There is very little shift. Farming has been a terrible business for 30 years. And when that happens people go to where the money is. They go to Wall Street, wherever the money is.
In America the average age of farmers is 58 because nobody wants to be a farmer anymore. There are farms in Japan that are empty because there is nobody to farm them; they are even experimenting bringing in workers from China, and they don’t like foreigners at all but they have little choice. The average age in Australia is 58. Canada has the oldest age for farmers in recorded history. In the UK the highest rate of suicide is in agriculture. I guess we all know that millions of Indian farmers commit suicide because things are so terrible.
More people in America study public relations than agriculture, because it has been a terrible business. The only that is going to change is for it to become very profitable and for young people to see the farmers getting rich. Of course they will say “those guys are driving Lamborghinis and I want one too so I will become a farmer”.
But it’s not going to happen until it becomes an exciting and profitable business. The Soviets tried to make people farm, they had all these coops or whatever they called them; Mao Tse Tung tried the same thing and eventually ruined Chinese agriculture by forcing people to become farmers. It doesn’t work.
The only way it works is for people to become motivated to become farmers and that will only happen when they get rich. There have been many periods in history where farmers got rich and powerful. It will happen again.
ET: Given all the issues that we have discussed, if these trends persist we will see higher food prices, perhaps significantly so. How can people hedge against this? Should they start growing their own food, purchase the appropriate securities in the markets, buy water treatment companies…?
JR: That’s why you should become a farmer. Buy some land and become a farmer if you like the outdoors. Otherwise you can lease it to a farmer. Make sure you buy land where it is going to rain and that you lease it to a competent farmer, otherwise you will suffer.
There are many ways. You can invest in seed companies, or you can become a tractor salesman, or set up restaurants for the farmers because they will have a lot more money down the road. Buy yourself a second home by a lake in the farm belt, in the places where the farmers are going to be.
There are many ways to participate and to get involved – to hedge if you will. Becoming a stockbroker is not the best way. Farming is the way of the future. But don’t do it unless you like it. If you don’t like it you will find out it’s a lot of hard work and will go broke, like many other farmers. Certainly many have gone broke, committed suicide and so forth over the last 30 years.
Instead you can become a journalist covering the farming sector. Depends on what your skills and interests are. As you look at your life, figure out a way to orient it towards agriculture. If you want to sell, sell something to the farmers.
ET: A quick comment on possible macro implications. The US Federal Reserve excludes food from its core inflation definition, but if prices rise quickly there could be repercussions on the rest of the economy. It seems that Western central banks have spent so much time and effort printing money to avoid deflation that when they finally start getting inflation, driven by a food crisis or any other shock, they will be in a very weak position to tackle it. For one, raising interest rates will put a lot of pressure on government finances given the huge debt loads that they are now carrying. What do you think could happen here?
JR: Throughout history we have had economic slowdowns every four to seven years, every so often. Always have, and always will. Nobody has solved that problem, not even the central banks. We are going to have another one in the world. We are going to have more I should say, and they will get worse because the debt situation is higher and higher. We hear all this talk about austerity and cutting back but every country in the world has higher debt now than it had last year and will have higher debt next year.
The buildup of debt in the US alone is staggering; Japan is staggering, everywhere is staggering. So the next time we have an economic slowdown it is going to be much worse than the last time, and if the world survives that one, the one after that is going to be worse and worse.
Because as you point out, if interest rates go higher – and they will; this current level of interest rates is not only abnormal but absurd, it has never been so low anywhere in the world – with the gigantic amount of debt we are going to have gigantic problems worldwide: more turmoil, we will probably have wars, governments fail, countries fail. This is going to be a mess.
So buy yourself a farm. Be prepared! It’s going to be a serious mess. And hopefully your farm will be far away from the marauding hordes.
ET: Final question. You are also known as the “investment biker”, after driving thousands of miles around the world. Is this how you have generated your best investment ideas, being on the ground and seeing what was actually happening? These days, how do you keep close tabs on the markets?
JR: I drove around the world not for investing but for adventure. Because of who I am, when I go some place I do look around, I do observe. And in my travels I would see opportunities just by the nature of who I am. If I saw something changing I would pursue it.
And that’s a good way to do it. If you have the time and the money to go around the world in a car or a motorcycle do it. It’s a great adventure, at least for me. I’ve done it twice. The investing was a sideline.
But just walking down the street, if you can be observant you can find investment ideas. Sometimes I missed them but other times not, and I capitalized on it. And I read a lot. I don’t know much about basketball but I know what’s going on around the world because I read and that’s my passion.
Start with what interests you. Find the changes in the industry you like and figure out ways to invest and profit from it. This will you put you ahead of Wall Street because this is your passion, so you can get in before anybody else. You can also get out sooner, because Wall Street is always late in getting out.
Over the course of your life you can spot 25 or so good investment opportunities. Concentrate your efforts on understanding them rather than jumping around and you will do very well.
ET: Jim, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge on these important topics. We’ll go drink some water and eat an apple while they’re still cheap!
JR: All the best to you.
Q by eow,max 5 day extension.
Looking forward to seeing it, hope to also get Fort Stockton well news and or a new desal contract this week .
Need something to combat the selling.
GLTA Longs
Getting the word out on the tech.
http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Programs/GeothermalLab/Conference/2015Presenters
Very nice pick, hope your trip is going well.
Love the "12 million dollars ON THE BOOKS accounts receivable!'
STEAMING THE RIGHT DIRECTION!!
PXYN
I agree, it will bounce at that point.
THe million dollar question is, what will you have to pay for it .
Who knows?????
But nothing wrong with that approach, as always, only hind site is 20/20.lol
Me, I think at the 52 week low with a lot of support, 5 million none dilutive funding, revs increasing very rapidly. at least 10 potential contracts, wells in fort stockton area ect....
I am all in, and bought more yesterday.
GLTU
I will be interested to see if the seller is about done, at the eod he almost always dumps maybe 10k going into the close.We shall see.
Once he is out of the way we move back to .90 pretty fast imo.
GLTA Longs
"STW Water recently executed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with a major reverse osmosis (RO) manufacturer that has been instrumental in designing and building reverse osmosis facilities around the world. The RO Company is interested in incorporating STW’s zero liquid discharge Salttech system inline with their systems. The Salttech system will recover approximately 95-97% of the fresh water from the highly salty brine reject that is the by-product of reverse osmosis systems"
One many projects. Love it
Shareholder Update on Water-Related Activities
Joint Ventures and Relationships Build on Company’s Focus on Water Reclamation, Water Desalination, and Remediation
MIDLAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STW Resources Holding Corp. (OTCQB: STWS), an integrated provider of water management, including water reclamation and remediation, and oilfield services, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, STW Water Process & Technologies, LLC (STW Water) has made major progress in different potential water-related projects in Texas, California, and Oklahoma.
STW Water recently executed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with a major reverse osmosis (RO) manufacturer that has been instrumental in designing and building reverse osmosis facilities around the world. The RO Company is interested in incorporating STW’s zero liquid discharge Salttech system inline with their systems. The Salttech system will recover approximately 95-97% of the fresh water from the highly salty brine reject that is the by-product of reverse osmosis systems. Generally, this concentrated brine reject is disposed of by returning it back to the ocean and local waterways. There is an environmental concern that this brine reject can damage the ecosystem of these waterways. With STW’s technology designed and incorporated into the system, there will be no potentially environmentally harmful side effects since there will be no need to dispose any reject into these waterways. This company, along with STW, will be bidding on ocean desalination projects in United States coastline cities. STW is also working on several projects that will utilize STW’s hybrid high-brackish reverse osmosis unit that recovers up to 85+% fresh water, followed by the patented ZLD system capable of achieving 95-97% fresh water recovery and 3-5% solid waste consisting of salt crystals and minerals. The Salttech system can economically process water, and requires no filtration or chemicals. Until now, the price of desalinated water projects has been prohibitively expensive, but STW’s project comes in at approximately $1,100-$1,350 per acre-foot of water which when comparing cost and output STW’s solution is less than today’s desalination technology.
STW has also been invited to perform a pilot demonstration on its recently licensed “Toilet-to-Tap” technology with two major cities in Texas. STW will be following the protocol required by the regulatory authorities. Starting in the second quarter, STW, in conjunction with Sunstone Water Group, will be initiating pilot projects, subject to the oversight of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). These demos will exhibit the efficacy of the system and to also gain acceptance and approval for use commercially in municipalities. Although “toilet-to-tap” processing is not new, there has not been a very serious commitment from industry to pursue it. Understandably, it has been slow to achieve public acceptance. But, because of the drought situations and fresh water shortages in several parts of the United States and other areas of the world, it will become a necessary option for the water industry to develop going forward. The technology being piloted is Sunstone technology and can be applied to process municipal wastewater to potable drinking water.
Additionally, STW Resources will make this innovative technology available for use in disaster relief and recovery. The system can be easily transported in shipping containers for fast and efficient deployment. Sunstone’s technology increases STW’s arsenal of water treatment technologies in keeping with the company’s business model of being a source for remediating all types of water. The Sunstone technology is currently operating in many countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. STW Water will be taking the lead for deployment of the process in the U.S.
Alan Murphy, President of STW Water, has performed and overseen pilots for several different technologies over the past few years. He has been involved with the design, installation, construction, and maintenance of many of the reverse osmosis systems in operation in Texas today. Although there are several technologies on the market for this specialized type of water treatment, Sunstone has developed and patented a system that is far advanced technologically than most all other systems available.
STW has been added to a short list of approved vendors for a municipal water project in Oklahoma that will consist of processing brackish water for human use and possibly utilizing our “toilet-to-tap” technology as soon as it has been approved by the TCEQ. The project is for a town of approximately 23,000 citizens that is on the verge of running out of fresh water. Unfortunately, the water shortage problem is becoming the number one problem for many communities across the drought stricken areas in the U.S. today.
Alan Murphy, President of STW Water, said, “We are being contacted almost daily by different municipalities and other interested municipalities in Oklahoma, Texas, and California that are in need of new water resources. The Sunstone technology is capable of processing and cleaning contaminated municipal wastewater to specs that are cleaner than the bottled water that is bought in stores every day. Our Salttech Zero Liquid Discharge technology is being sought after by regulatory and environmental agencies as well as municipalities that are in need of fresh water but also have extensive reserves of salty ocean and/or brackish water available to them. One plus is that they are also environmentally concerned about what to do with the concentrated saline by-product and we have the ‘green’ solution to their concerns. This completely environmentally friendly water processing system has a number of technological advancements over the other conventional evaporative thermal distillation and reverse osmosis systems including the ability to produce a solid discharge that is easily used or sold, generating a substantially higher percentage of clean drinking water per gallon of brackish or ocean water, 60% more compact compared to other alternatives, no chemicals, no membranes, and requires little operator attention 24/7 (highly automated), and flexible enough to be in fixed or mobile in its presentation depending on the amount of salt water influent. This system eliminates the need for deep well waste water injections, evaporation ponds and other recognized methods for disposing of concentrated brine waste from desalination activities.
Murphy added, "DyVaR is the first system designed for highly saline water that does not scale. DyVaR is also very energy efficient using up to 50% less energy as compared to other conventional systems. With the extremely high rate of 95-97% of fresh water recovery from salt water, the total process required to achieve optimum results is considerably reduced. Conventional reverse osmosis needs to process approximately 50 million gallons of seawater per day to recover approximately 22.5 million gallons of fresh water, whereas the DyVaR needs to process only about 23.7 million gallons per day to retrieve the same amount."
Murphy concluded, "“We are wasting our precious fresh water resources every minute of every day when we could be reusing it. We have the technology to clean and process nearly every type of contaminated water for reuse now. Everyone needs to realize that water is our most precious commodity and that it needs to be conserved in every way possible.”
Another water project coming online very soon is the West Texas Water Project. STW will be drilling wells into a 4,000-foot plus reservoir to produce the water for transport to other municipalities and beneficial end users around west Texas. Texas is facing an unprecedented drought, and now a new report is predicting a decades long ‘mega drought’ later this century. The City of Fort Stockton, Texas has leased STW the rights—for 30 years, plus possible extensions—to drill and produce the extensive water reserves from the Capitan Reef Aquifer. Key independent third-party hydro-geological reports say the reservoir could possibly produce in excess of 100+ million gallons per day for over 100 years, without affecting the integrity of the reservoir. STW will utilize its proprietary hybrid reverse osmosis technology to process this water for municipal use.
STW Resources expects to be booking revenue from this project in the second to third quarter of this year.
According to one independent third-party report, STW is tapping into potentially 14 million-acre feet of water—or about 5.6 trillion gallons
In the first phase, the project will drill up to 11 production wells and expected to pump over 10 million gallons of water per day
Another very important and promising relationship is being established with a water-related engineering firm in California. This currently undisclosed firm has been involved with water projects for approximately 20 years and recently contacted STW Water to possibly forge a relationship with STW Water so they can introduce the company’s technologies to parched Southern California. STW officials will be attending the Water Reuse association in Huntington Beach, California in early May and will be meeting with this firm to further solidify a relationship with them.
Investor Database for Future Press Releases and Industry Updates
Interested investors and shareholders are invited to be added to the corporate e-mail database for corporate press releases and periodic industry updates by sending an e-mail to cleanwater@stwresources.com.
About STW Resources Holding Corp.
STW Resources Holding Corp. (OTCQB: STWS) is a leading provider of oilfield services and water management services operating through three subsidiaries. STW Energy uses the latest technology to prepare and construct sites for oil and gas exploration and remove oil and diesel residue from drilling rigs to meet environmental regulations. They offer a multitude of services to the O&G industry that allows for compliance with federal regulations regarding clean water and transportation. STW Pipeline uses the latest technology to install new pipelines and repair and maintain aging water, oil and gas lines. STW Water designs, permits and builds mobile waste treatment plants near oil and gas drilling sites and provides customized and cost-effective water reclamation solutions for oil & gas producers, municipalities, and environmental remediation projects. STW recently obtained the exclusive licensing rights for a proprietary water treatment technology from Salttech Ltd. of the Netherlands, which can process oilfield produced, frack flowback, ocean water and brackish water into ninety-five (95%) percent fresh drinking water.
www.stwresources.com
@STWRESOURCES
https://www.facebook.com/STWRESOURCES
About Sunstone
Sunstone Water Group is an international company that specializes in the development and production of patented and innovative water purification systems for wastewater and drinking water. They are continuously developing and implementing systems to meet the demands for drinking water, waste water, as well as oily water treatment.
The company was founded in 2007 by Elo Nielsen after several years of research and development. He was determined to have a global impact by creating a portable water treatment system capable of purifying water from a wide variety of sources including municipal wastewater, contaminated wells, rivers, or even the sea.
Sunstone opened a Production Facility in Youngsville, NC in 2012, where they continue to develop systems to combine cutting edge technology with proven brands in areas where water purification demands are rising due to legislation, and in areas where water scarcity is a growing concern.
www.sunstonewater.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements about our business, or financial condition and prospects that reflect our assumptions and beliefs based on information currently available. We can give no assurance that the expectations indicated by such forward-looking statements will be realized. There may be other risks and circumstances that we are unable to predict. When used in this news release, words such as "believes," "expects," "intends," "plans," "anticipates," "estimates" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although there may be certain forward-looking statements not accompanied by such expressions. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including risks discussed in the company's periodic reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on its website (www.sec.gov). All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or to persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these factors other than as required under the securities laws. The Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.
Contacts
STW Resources Holding Corp
Company Contact:
Paul DiFrancesco, 432-296-3000
pauld@stwresources.com
or
Investor Relations, 432-687-1811
cleanwater@stwresources.com
Link to Press Release with Active Hyperlinks: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150408006447/en/STW-Resources-Releases-Shareholder-Update-Water-Related-Activities#.VSaE3cItGM8
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Pru Cap, a repost. perspective on funding .
This press release on the $5 million financing is, imo, very significant for a small company like STWS. According to the PR, this financing is a “ WIP “ (work in progress) financing package that involves NO equity component. In other words, no dilution. And, there is not debt service--meaning no interest to be paid.
I checked to see what a "family office is.
"A family office or single family office (SFO) is a private company that manages investments and trusts for a single family. The company's financial capital is the family's own wealth, often accumulated over many family generations."
Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_office
So it looks like that a Family Office has partnered with the company and is providing capital for a small percentage of the NET PROFIT. So, STWS gives the Family Office a cut of the net income of the projects--probably 10-15%. (BTW--can you IMAGINE the level of due diligence that is required before a Family Office decides to put the family money into an investment? Talk about pressure for the money manager/ family members deciding Yes or No on a potential investment.)
Lets say that a typical water project is around $3 million with a profit margin of around 30%. The customer/project are municipalities that have taxing authority, so you do not have to worry about a customer not being able to pay STWS. Let's assume the profit is $900K and the company gives up, say 15% to the WIP participant ($135K). The company retains the $ 765,000 profit for just one of the nine projects mention. Do the math, and you can see why this is a big Plus for STWS.
IMO, the current low price is because of the lack of news on contracts. But with this financing, it sounds like we are, at the minimum, going to see nine Press releases on the nine projects. And that is without factoring in the pipeline maintenance contracts and desalinization contract potential.
All in all, I am pretty excited about the near term future potential here. $0.61 will look like a gift in thirty days.
"I think buyers will come in once the stock turns up."
I was wrong, Lg buyer on the bid as I type.
Really thought the seller was done a few days ago.
I have been buying, and gotten my average down to .67, but am sick of the selling!
I think buyers will come in once the stock turns up. Catch 22.
GLTU
V bottom from this point.imo
I bought a few more this am.
Seller does not act like they have a lot of shares remaining.
GLTU
The seller has sure given many folks including myself a chance to build nice size positions at very attractive prices. Seems like .60 has a lot of support. The 100 and 200k share days seemed to have dried up. Now the seller is putting much fewer shares on the market, each time they are eaten up. When he is completely done this will move to .80-.90 on very little volume, any of the contracts or well flow updates and the 200 day mda will fall and become support. All imo
GLTA
Great idea,
done.
Works great, enjoy your time away.
This press release on the $5 million financing is, imo, very significant for a small company like STWS. According to the PR, this financing is a “ WIP “ (work in progress) financing package that involves NO equity component. In other words, no dilution. And, there is not debt service--meaning no interest to be paid.
I checked to see what a "family office is.
"A family office or single family office (SFO) is a private company that manages investments and trusts for a single family. The company's financial capital is the family's own wealth, often accumulated over many family generations."
Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_office
So it looks like that a Family Office has partnered with the company and is providing capital for a small percentage of the NET PROFIT. So, STWS gives the Family Office a cut of the net income of the projects--probably 10-15%. (BTW--can you IMAGINE the level of due diligence that is required before a Family Office decides to put the family money into an investment? Talk about pressure for the money manager/ family members deciding Yes or No on a potential investment.)
Lets say that a typical water project is around $3 million with a profit margin of around 30%. The customer/project are municipalities that have taxing authority, so you do not have to worry about a customer not being able to pay STWS. Let's assume the profit is $900K and the company gives up, say 15% to the WIP participant ($135K). The company retains the $ 765,000 profit for just one of the nine projects mention. Do the math, and you can see why this is a big Plus for STWS.
IMO, the current low price is because of the lack of news on contracts. But with this financing, it sounds like we are, at the minimum, going to see nine Press releases on the nine projects. And that is without factoring in the pipeline maintenance contracts and desalinization contract potential.
All in all, I am pretty excited about the near term future potential here. $0.61 will look like a gift in thirty days.
Sorry I miss spoke, anyway, bottom it is,imo
GLTA Longs
Although I would love to see more volume today. ( more than zero) lol
The lack of volume shows two things, one there are no more motivated sellers in this range, which is what I focus on. it also shows that are no motivated buyers. For a long time the sellers have been willing to hit the ask, now that has stopped. IMO we are at a bottom, with a few blips up the last few days. IMO it has has much greater chance of turning up here than going down.
GLTA Longs
"Incredible - that short sellers created a BOGUS website to try to manipulate a stock price"
Money is a very strong incentive.
Truth will win out, and pxyn will return to a more reasonable price. IMO very soon.
GLTU
Yes sir,
Great Chart!
CTTC
Volume and price continue to increase, the huge trade and spike yesterday are an indicator to me that the GSA contract is a done deal. I think it trades past a dollar within a few minutes of that pr, then will find a base above a dollar and move on up.
GLTU
Welcome aboard,
THat makes about 5 of us on this board. lol
I do believe some deep pockets support this stock, just don't show up here.
GLTU
Boy am I glad this is non dilutive.
Pretty strong show of support in the below statement.
Leaders leading and sticking their neck out for the company, Nice
"Crown has authorized up to a $5,000,000 credit limit to STW Water under the Account Purchase Agreement, all obligations of which are guaranteed by the Company and Mr. Weiner personally. Neither the Company nor Stanley T. Weiner has received any compensation related to their serving as Guarantors of the Account Purchase Agreement. ::
I agree with conix, we will start to see contracts rolling in now.
Also of interest, sounds like they plan to use this line as a revolving door, not max it out then work on paying it. With each project they will be loaned up front money from Crown, then pay it back as cash comes in from the project, (milestones first). I expect the turn around to be pretty fast.
GLTA Longs
"It takes money to make money. "
Yes sir it does and now we have it non dilutive.
I can not imagine a scenario where a institution would loan 5 million on a royalty contract with out the assurance and confidence that they will be paid back the principle, and make a good deal off of their investment.
GLTU
"When you have good news--say it! All of it. FINANCING WITHOUT DILUTION! "
I strongly agree.