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I would rather be connected to a company that has only occasional PRs rather than one that has fluffy ones twice a day, but I am wondering....would Microbics even let us know if they initiate
some action in the gulf as far as oil remediation? I know it's just your opinion, but I am curious what other people think. Thanks.
ROBERT, La. – BP has failed in its latest attempt to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico with mud and cement, the company said Saturday.
BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said the company determined the "top kill" method had failed after studying it for three days. The method involved pumping heavy drilling mud into a crippled well 5,000 feet underwater.
"We have not been able to stop the flow," Suttles said. "We have made the decision to move onto the next option."
“The key to bioremediation of the oil spill is Bacteria, nutrients, and oxygen. There are two schools of thought on the bacteria. One is that someone will make a “super bacteria” that is capable of eating all of the oil in the spill. I am sure that are several companies that are currently offering BP their super bacteria at a reasonable price. My thoughts on bacteria are that they are ubiquitous (everywhere) and that they can double in number every 30 minutes under the right environment conditions. The main things that limit that rate of growth are nutrients (Nitrogen and Phosphorous) and a final electron acceptor (oxygen). So – bacteria are not limiting the rate of bioremediation of the spill.
“Nutrients – during the cleanup efforts in Alaska, studies found that adding nutrients to the shoreline spill areas helped to clean up the oil in those areas. Of course these were in areas that had great wave action which provided the oxygen that the bacteria required. Limited nutrient addition may be able to help the clean up in certain areas.
“Oxygen – this is probably the limiting factor in the rate that the bacteria can eat the oil. The ocean and shore areas have limited ability to transfer oxygen into the water. The maximum oxygen concentration in water is 8 mg/l and we are talking about 100s or 1000s of mg/l of oil contaminant (the dispersants they are using also have to be degraded by the bacteria and add to the oxygen demand of the entire process). So the oxygen must be constantly replenished. This only happens at the air/water interface at the surface of the ocean. Anything that creates surface area and mixing will increase the rate of oxygen transfer. That is why a storm is good news/bad news. It will transfer huge amounts of oxygen, but the waves can help spread the spill. (The sulfate in the ocean can replace the oxygen in the bioremediation, but the bacteria that use sulfate require a very reducing environment and the ocean is not a reducing environment.)
“Tar Balls – In the end the bacteria can only degrade the lower molecular weight compounds from the crude oil. The tar balls cannot use bioremediation.”
Glad I'm not in ACLH. Just trying to remember why I'm in BUGS now. :)
Thanks for the email address. I sent a couple of emails to Bob at that email address too, and will let the board know if any replies are received.
There will be a ton of clean-up money to be made in the gulf region. If BUGS will gear-up, and go after it, they could do really well. Maybe they are working on this right now.
Here is some more......
Pemex Oil Requests SSWM Rapid Cleanup Technology ASAP.
Publication: Business Wire
Date: Wednesday, March 28 2007
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Bio-Raptor[TM] to be used on Oil Drilling and Pipeline Sites
CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (OTCBB:SSWM), announced that its Mexico subsidiary company, Environmental Tec International, S.A. de C.V. (ETI), recently completed its presentation to top Pemex
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Shaft Development for Civil Construction Projects
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Oil company officials who directed ETI to immediately schedule site visits and submit cost proposals to demonstrate the patented Bio-Raptor[TM] environmental cleanup technology at one or more oil drilling/pipeline sites in southeast Mexico as a prelude to its possible use throughout Pemex production and pipeline facilities in Mexico.
The Bio-Raptor[TM] patented technology is registered as an approved cleanup technology in Mexico with SEMARNAT, a Federal regulatory agency, and has been used previously on a $1.5MM project in Torreon. The ex situ, above-ground, technology treats up to 500 cubic yards/hour of soil contaminated with hydrocarbons such as oil and diesel found at drilling sites and pipeline spills.
Pemex, the Mexico Federal oil company, has experienced many pipeline spills after 15 years of reduced maintenance of Pemex facilities and pipelines, some of which are 40 years old, because high taxes don't allow the company to keep enough of its own profit for investment. The company recently spent $1.5 billion to maintain oil pipelines and has shut down or reduced the use of 7 pipelines considered to be at risk in the southern states of Tabasco and Veracruz. Mexico City-based Pemex plans to double annual spending on maintenance to $3 billion for the next three years using approved cleanup technology like the Bio-Raptor[TM].
harvard you are absolutely corrrect......
US Microbics execs meet with Pemex, govt officials - Mexico
Published: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 17:57 (GMT -0400)More news from Mexico
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Executives from US environmental products and services company US Microbics are meeting with officials from Mexico's government and state oil company Pemex this week to discuss soil and groundwater remediation projects, US Microbics said in a statement.
Presentations and meetings are scheduled for the entire week at various locations around Mexico City, the statement said.
US Microbics officials are promoting the company's patented cleanup technology currently being used to treat contaminated soil and groundwater in Mexico.
They will be meeting with state environmental officials, Pemex officials and officials from regional water treatment plants.
The company expects to add new business based on its success in an existing US$1mn project in Mexico to cleanup soils and water impacted by oil hydrocarbons waste, the statement said.
Wow. Good to know. Do people here think that BUGS will use what they have to make some money? That's what they are in business for, right? Having it, and using it are two different things, though.
This is a post from another board regarding BUGS:
There's one and only one question that remains here...
DOES BUGS STILL HAVE THESE OIL-EATING MICROBES?
It's a very simple yes or no question.
Years ago they DID have such microbes. Did they move on away from this or sell it off or what?
I've tried to contact the company via phone calls and emails but never got a response.
This only leads me to believe they have nothing.
Nobody cares what they HAD 10, 20, 30 years ago. DO THEY HAVE IT NOW??????? YES or NO?????
That's all that matters.
Good work jp2247. Hopefully Bob will respond so that we can know where we stand in the near-term.
Thanks for the email address. I sent Bob an email, and now it's just wait and see.
Kudos for trying Dementedhumor. What is their email address?
Hope you (we) get a response. Even if they are putting something together in the oil remediation area, I do not know if he would be able to tell you.
Reading the things about BUGS, it certainly appears that they are trying to become a respectable, reporting, viable company.
state exclusive agreement
May 3rd, 2010 garychen
BBB Looks for A Few Good Business People
A Carlsbad-based small business is taking its environmental cleanup technology to six Midwestern states.
Sub-Surface Waste Management, Inc., a subsidiary of U.S. Microbics, has established a formal exclusive agency agreement with American Bio Systems in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin, said Bruce Beattie, president of Sub-Surface.
Beattie called Bio Systems a key partner in its environmental work.
“(We plan) to participate in the environmental cleanup opportunities that are currently under way in this industrialized region in the country,” he said. “A key element in American Bio Systems’ plan is to forge strategic alliances with industry and property developers seeking cost-effective, turn-key solutions in optimizing their activity and reducing contingent liabilities.”
U.S. Microbics is a technology company specializing in proprietary microbial applications for agriculture, bioremediation, water treatment and other needs.
The products have been used by insurance companies, contractors, landfill operators, petrochemical manufacturers, cities, states, the federal government and more, Beattie said.
Expect a rebirth of BUGS.
Expectng a PR
Who will clean this mess up?
* Crude still leaking into Gulf, fouling Louisiana marshes
BLIND BAY, La, May 21 (Reuters) - Energy giant BP, accused by the U.S. government of failing to share information in a timely fashion about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, was forging ahead on Friday with efforts to contain the gushing crude.
The pressure to act is huge. TV images of oil sloshing into Louisiana's marshes has underscored the gravity of the situation and raised public concern about the catastrophe, keeping it high up on the political agenda in Washington.
"It's depressing for sure. This is what we were hoping wouldn't happen," said Randy Lanctot, executive director of the Louisiana Wildlife Federation.
Deep red oil coated miles of coastline along the southern tip of the Mississippi River delta, the harbinger of what many in Louisiana fear will be a much more devastating inundation.
In places, a thick oily sludge had washed up into coastal inlets where it nestled amid the marsh grass while elsewhere a rainbow sheen of oil floated off the coast suggesting more oil would soon wash onto the low-lying islands.
I found this from May 14 2010 the Reuters Report.
Business Summary
U.S. Microbics Inc. is a business development and holding company that acquires, develops, and deploys
environmental technologies for remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater; reduction of air and water
pollution; reactivation of carbon-filtration systems, and microbial-based approaches to agriculture enhancement. The
Company provides engineering solutions to reduce pollution, improve water quality, and increase agricultural output.
U.S. Microbics, Inc., along with its subsidiaries provides products and services, which include Environmental
Remediation Services, which helps in the assessment, remediation planning, and/or operation of remediation sites,
and Microbial Remediation Expertise, which focuses on licensing, training, and transfer of know-how to government
and non-government agencies, as well as to the private sector for reducing pollution, improving water quality, and
enhancing crop yield.
Contact Info
U.S. Microbics, Inc. is headquartered at:
6451-C El Camino Real, Carlsbad, CA, 92009
United States
(760) 918-1860
Conrad Nagel, CFO
Is this the Same contact # you have?
It pretty much says it right there "deploys
environmental technologies for remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater."
And I am sure if there is money to be made they have the Berry White albums playing and the wine is flowing and there is a Microbe orgy going down at bugs, I am sure they are breeding like , well like microbs. ( lets get it on, oh ya baby, lets get it on)
They are viable. Read this. They are going to get current with the SEC too.
Read POST #6903 (The PDF file will bring you up to date.)
No, the poster just prior to my message used the word "bumbler". I was/am honestly trying to find out if others perceive him to be this way, i.e. has he a history of not acting speedily, or effectively to low-hanging fruit?
Is the CEO of BUGS a bumbler? Has that always been the case? Does he not know the potential for business in this disaster?
They (BP) SHOULD already know the BUGS company, and what they do. Maybe the "bumbler" is waiting to be asked to dance?
Just thoughts. GLTA
It is being taken down on very light vol. No worries with that.
First stop the oil flow, then clean it up. They should be working on the clean-up plan now. I don't know if BUGS will be part of it, but they should be.
You guys are right on target. Stuff is being accumulated for a launch. I'm all in at this point , and waiting for launch date. This trade alone will probably make my year. Good to see that others "see" things too. I know I'm in the right place. GLTYA
Regards, Narnia
Is Felix the board leper/moderator?
I bought 400,000 shares today, and I am from another board.
dID YOU SEE THAT OERD FOR 300k JUST GO THROUGH!?
Thanks much. Regards
Does anyone know how to tune in to the press conference?
Parabolic move this week in IMSC buy it.
The timing of this company is right on target. The MarketSite meeting at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow, 1/19, will not be fluff. No company would risk embarrassing themselves. Will be game-changing news IMHO.
http://realstockpicks.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/imsc-implant-sciences/
Cut & paste. This article definitely worth reading. IMSC will have a parabolic move this week IMHO.
Hold your positions. Nice base building. Will pop eventually when more news comes out.
No, Stehvestor, I am not particularly happy with the facts that are known to us at this point. I am willing to keep my "game face", and patiently wait. Narnia1000
My interpretation of "code freeze" : Sounds like a "hands off" order to the computer (code) programmers from the Chief Technology Officer. They must like things EXACTLY the way that they are now, and don't want anyone to change anything.
Sound plausible?
Congratulations Berg....great news for you!
Very optimistic news for shareholders. Looks like we should all do well with this stock. Don't sell too quickly. Narnia1000
Look at ADSX yesterday, and today. Volume prior to the news shows zero leakage. Same thing is possible here.
Yeah.....100 proof
Nothing personal, but "SOOP" sounds like a sad case in need of a psychiatric evaluation, and a local AA meeting.
On the subject of SCMI, I'm still confidently holding, and have added on the way down. Patience, and strength to all.
Narnia
Sunncomm / SCMI comparison? Take a look at the three year chart on SIRI. Sure, they're a reporting company, but look at the volume three years ago and how the price got driven up anyway. Yes SCMI does have alot of shares, but Sunnyday is right about the potential for the price to be driven up to ten. I would'nt exactly cry if it only made it to eight!
A few major news bombs, and the market-maker loosing the hounds, so to speak, and Sunncomm SCMI could be a high-flyer too. Food for thought.