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Dr. Mercola posted this today about CBD...
Medical Cannabis — A Vastly Underutilized Therapeutic Option?
AISI - I am with Whacky on this one NOTWITHSTANDING
my complete trust in your judgment regarding O&G engineering concepts and other issues related to QSEP's designs on this industry. In short, you do great DD!
The challenge is that KMI is so diverse and vast in its operations, there's a very high likelihood that petrol offloading facilities could be ubiquitous in their portfolio of assets and probably are.
Just my opinion. Still think their management is comprised of dimwits. They've had our AOT on their condensate line in the Eagle Ford Shale patch since June 1st of last year.
CRIKEY! What's it going to take? A Trump executive order?
If KMI is WAITING...
...on more STUDIES and TESTS in order to justify an AOT contract, their management is IMCOMPETENT by the most gracious standards of measuring their decision-making talents.
WHY? Because the AOT installed on any KMI line or segment thereof CLEARLY produces COST & REVENUE benefits of $100s OF THOUSANDS of DOLLARS PER DAY! Yeah, countless MILLIONS per year!!
It's a NO BRAINER to contract for and install the AOT TODAY anywhere on their pipeline infrastructure. If their shareholders could learn of this managerial incompetence (but they can't because of an NDA), IMO, heads would roll.
BIGLY!!!
What this means to CANADA!!!
Covering an area of roughly 54,800 square miles in northern Alberta, the Athabasca, Peace River, and Cold Lake oil sands deposits contain an estimated 315 billion barrels of recoverable oil, approximately 80% of which is extracted through drilling and other forms of in-situ production. The bulk of the bitumen and dilbit produced in the region and diluent used as a thinner are primarily transported by the Cold Lake, Corridor and Polaris pipeline systems. With AOT's efficacy now tested on a variety of oil sands samples, its ability to significantly reduce the viscosity of bitumen and its derivatives could help maximize the intended benefits of carbon-pricing within the Alberta energy sector which contributes in excess of $50 billion annually to Canada's gross domestic product of $1.5 trillion.
Kittie88 - Check out Ben Greenfield's research:
This is the exact stuff featured in Ben Greenfield’s groundbreaking article “How To Get All The Health Benefits Of Weed Without Actually Smoking Weed“, which is a must-read to understand the complete science behind CBD.
If you’ve seen the host of research on this 100% legal form CBD, then you’ve no doubt heard of the benefits of CBD extracts and CBD oils for everything from athletic recovery, sports performance, sleeping, anti-inflammation, anxiety and much more.
In addition to the article cited above, Ben Greenfield has explored both THC and CBD components of cannabis, hemp and marijuana in posts such as “The Effect Of Weed On Exercise: Is Marijuana A Performance-Enhancing Drug?” and podcasts such as “Is Weed Healthy? The Controversial Truth About The Science Of Marijuana.“.
Although FDA regulations prevent us from making any health related claims as it relates to people taking CBD, you can do your own research. For example simply do an internet search for “CBD health” or visit the ProjectCBD website and you’re on your way.
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I do not endorse his product because it's too expensive for me. On the other hand, Ben has awesome credentials as both an elite athlete and as a Sports Science expert.
Totally true!
I'm an amateur track athlete. I've used CBD recently for various weight/sprint training injuries including shoulder, hamstring, neck, lower back, etc.
Every time, this product works like a dream with NO SIDE EFFECTS. Awesome for the weekender athletes and seniors who complain about their old "football injuries."
The market potential to replace addictive pharmaceuticals is inestimable.
GO ALKM!
TransCanada Keystone XL in the news!
Don't be fooled by the headline created by the leftwing media haters of oil. Trump will make this deal happen in short order, IMHO.
GLTA!
WHISTLER, British Columbia (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp has yet to discuss the Keystone XL oil pipeline with shippers and is not certain if all were still in support of it, the company's CEO said on Wednesday in his first public comments since President Donald Trump revived the project.
The new U.S. president signed an order on Tuesday that allowed TransCanada to reapply for a permit for Keystone XL, after it was rejected in 2015 by then-President Barack Obama on environmental concerns.
TransCanada Chief Executive Russ Girling said the firm was "diligently" preparing its application for the 1,179-mile (1,900 km) pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta, across the U.S. border to Steele City, Nebraska.
Girling said he believes the project remains attractive for shippers, given that it will supply the popular Gulf Coast market.
"But we haven't engaged in direct conversation on that issue," he said at an investors conference. "This wasn't in our planning horizon in the middle of last year, so we've only just re-engaged with our shippers again."
Analysts and traders said the C$8 billion ($6.1 billion) pipeline was far from being a certainty.
Since it has been proposed nearly a decade ago, TransCanada has lost some initial support from shippers during its arduous approval process, said a Canadian crude trader familiar with the pipeline contract who declined to be identified due to a lack of authorization to speak to the media.
The pipeline has faced fierce opposition over environmental concerns and still needs to get approval from the state of Nebraska.
TransCanada late Wednesday did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the shippers' commitment to the project.
If operational, Keystone XL would bring more than 800,000 barrels per day of heavy crude from Canada, which holds the world's third-largest crude reserves but lacks the infrastructure to move it easily.
The project has received regulatory approval and government backing in Canada.
Smile - See this post from yesterday...
Truethat - Sounds like TransCanada to me!
Quote:
The part that says "was developed upon request by the management team at a trusted, long term collaborative partner within the midstream sector or the domestic energy industry." That sounds like KM to me!?
Quote:
Designed for very high volume pipeline environments, the AOT-XL is fabricated to meet a target of 25,000 barrels per hour capacity (600,000 bpd). Initial laboratory tests of one of their crude oil samples has also shown favorable results."
TransCanada is the originator of the Keystone XL pipeline:
BBC Report Nov. 6, 2015 -
The Keystone XL pipeline is a proposed 1,179-mile (1,897km) pipe that would run from the oil sands in Alberta, Canada, to Steele City, Nebraska, where it could join an existing pipe. It could carry 830,000 barrels of oil each day.
Seems to me the "AOT-XL" is a CLUE that TC is setting up to buy a boatload of AOT-XL devices to cover the entire pipeline from the Alberta Canadian tar sands to Nebraska.
This news presumes that TRUMP is going to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. And, we know that his new Sec. of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, has already informed TRUMP of the ecological value of the AOT device. I think TRUMP will negotiate the AOT into the FINAL Keystone XL Pipeline DEAL. Why? For GREAT PR optics on 2 levels: Ecological WIN and AOT Made in America WIN.
I think Bigger is trying to send us shareholders a little hint without technically naming any names..."AOT-XL" wink, wink!
Truethat - Sounds like TransCanada to me!
The part that says "was developed upon request by the management team at a trusted, long term collaborative partner within the midstream sector or the domestic energy industry." That sounds like KM to me!?
Designed for very high volume pipeline environments, the AOT-XL is fabricated to meet a target of 25,000 barrels per hour capacity (600,000 bpd). Initial laboratory tests of one of their crude oil samples has also shown favorable results."
The Keystone XL pipeline is a proposed 1,179-mile (1,897km) pipe that would run from the oil sands in Alberta, Canada, to Steele City, Nebraska, where it could join an existing pipe. It could carry 830,000 barrels of oil each day.
Completely concur with your post, Flubug.
Just imagine the discussion Zinke and Trump had during his interview for Sec. of Interior.
* Zinke informs Trump of QSEP's AOT technology and its potential ecological benefit of reducing Big Oil's carbon footprint along the pipeline route.
* Trump is all ears at that point because he sees a WIN-WIN-WIN.
* Trump's team, now including Zinke, go to work on negotiating the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline deal which he's already committed in his campaign to approve immediately upon his taking office in January. Yes XL pipeline = Infrastructure = JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, and Energy Independence
Take a guess: What provisions of that XL deal will be mandate in order to satisfy the demands of the ecologically sensitive electorate as well as getting oil from Canada's tar sands to the Lower 48?
GLTA!
Breaking News! Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke
is being interviewed by Pres. Elect Trump for his Secretary of the Dept. of Interior opening.
The QSEP stars are beginning to align.
GLTA!
TransCanada and Enbridge are the 2 largest energy transport companies located in Calgary, Alberta. If it's TransCanada, they already know how the AOT works, they just want to see the NEW & IMPROVED AOT work in a live test environment.
Why?
BECAUSE THEY WANT TO SIGN A FULLY SCOPED CONTRACT BASED UPON THE CURRENTLY CONFIGURED DEVICE AND THEIR PREDOMINANT OIL PRODUCT CARRIED IN THEIR PIPELINE.
Whoopeee! We're on our way, Ladies & Gents!
Hear! Hear! Mr. tripp1 is 100% on the money correct. Be patient with this stock. GLTA!
RE: Bigger
My take on Bigger is that he's a great EVP of Ops., but not a CEO of a company transitioning its product to commercialization within the energy industry.
Step 1: Reduce GB's comp to $100K and move him to an ops only role.
Step 2: Ask one of our long time Board Execs to take the CEO role temporarily until we make our first sale. $1.00 com would be appropriate, IMHO.
Step 3: Hire an EVP of Sales from a company like Emerson, which has extensive contacts within the Oil & Gas Industry (all segments). Take a look at this link for info: Emerson Oil & Gas Division. Whichever company sales exec is hired, comp. him BIG TIME for CLOSING THE FIRST AOT SALE.
Then watch SHAREHOLDER JOY ensue.
GLTA!
Something that hasn't been said...
This QSEP chart appears to reflect a FINAL LEAN scenario according to my chartist buddy. What's that? Look at the chart:
QSEP 1-yr chart
Back in Feb/Mar of this year we moved sharply UP from 10 cents to 20 cents per share. My chartist expert says that a "mirror move" followed in Oct/Nov sharply DOWN from 15 cents to 5 cents. This mirror move down by 10 cents represents the culmination of the pps FINAL LEAN in his estimation.
He explained that such price action reflects the "final shakeout" exasperations of the remaining weak handed shareholders. The MMs see this and take the opportunity to fill the coffers of their well-healed clients at the lowest prices. There is no resistance to the MMs machinations with the stock price because the strong hands are holding on to their shares patiently waiting for the good news to arrive.
What happens next is the stock moves higher steadily until THE EXPECTED GOOD NEWS is announced causing an extreme upside breakout.
Hope he's right.
Word UP, Flubug!
You just hit the nail on the head. We longstanding shareholders are all tapped out now. Nothing left in the chamber to fire away at these awesomely low prices.
With weak hands still in the mix, it's a perfect storm for the Elites to get their Black Friday Sale shares while the rest of us just look on in amazement.
Announcement soon. It will be all worth it, guys & gals, when that 1st sale is closed shortly.
GLTA!
Dude or Dudette, I never said that the legalization ballots were required to sell CBD in the U.S. And, in fact the links provided attest to that fact.
If these initiatives do pass, however, CBD will get more market and hopefully buying attention despite the fact that it's already legal to sell as a "supplement" in the U.S.
The point of my post is to provide evidence that PURA and ALKM are in a potential sweet spot of a developing market opportunity.
What is your point?
CBD is no scam. If you can, READ this article:
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OR if you cannot, watch this video:
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Anyone who does his/her DD can see that CBD works to reduce inflammation and is totally non-addictive. The question that remains is can it be MARKETED effectively in a water-based delivery system like ALKM-PURA. A VOTE in favor may come on Tuesday when several states consider legalizing medical mary jane.
If such legalization happens, we could see PURA and ALKM move higher and perhaps exponentially so.
Telegraphing the pass: When a b-baller looks at his teammate intently BEFORE passing the ball to him/her, the defender in essences is getting a "telegraphed" message via his opponents eyes that a pass is SOON to be forthcoming. Hence, the defender gets the gift of knowing the play and can position himself to steal the ball.
Flubug is RIGHT ON with his comments here. Why send out another PR so soon after sending a Shareholder Update? Methinks, like Flu, that Gregg is trying to help the weak-handed QSEP shareholders grow a pair so that they'll HOLD on to their shares a little longer because a SALE is SOON to be forthcoming.
Hang in there, Longs. We'll all be rewarded very soon for our patience.
Cheers!
DITTOS, Alkalines1! Way too much chatter from Gregg et al. It's like an NFL head coach bragging about his team days before they go up against the odds on favorite opponent with a stellar win/loss record. Most of us are uncomfortable reading this braggadocio in the ABSENCE OF RESULTS.
Hey, I'm all for selling QSEP to NEW DEEP-POCKETED INVESTORS. However, there are no new investors interested right now, just us long-term holders.
So, Mr. Bigger is trying to fill the SILENCE VOID with some promising investor education/marketing. OK, but he could accomplish something better via an investor video chat just for us LONGS and leave a few minutes to answer our questions. DUH!!!
New deep-pocketed investors are NOT going to invest in QSEP until ONE CONTRACT IS SIGNED. Mr. Bigger, just get to the business of completing the AOT User Manual and the SCADA/AOT API programming requested by KM so that they will SIGN A CONTRACT, ASAP.
Thank you!
Snoop, so true about this band of QSEP investor sisters & brothers. We're prepared to sell for a price based only upon FUTURE AOT SALES valuation.
No matter, there'll be no mercy for the DRA bloodsuckers out there. Once the first KM AOT sale is announced, they and their employers are TOAST.
O2, Same goes for me. I continue to average down because I think we are very close to a watershed event before year end or sometime early next year.
GLTA!!!
Shrim
Hear! Hear! Zerosum. Couldn't have said it better.
Cheers,
Shrim
Thanks, PIE, for the link!
Kinder Morgan Crude and Condensate LLC (KMCC) and Double Eagle Pipeline LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.
End to end from Cotulla, TX to Houston, TX, it's +/- 300 mile pipeline. If we assume AOTs placed every 50 to 75 miles, we get (5) AOTS needed to support this pipeline.
We can expect a 25% discount to Kinder Morgan because of all the help from their engineers and the patience their executive team has granted QSEP in order to commercialize the AOT to industry standards. Such a reasonable contract discount gives us the following AOT estimated final pricing:
AOT Purchase Price = $7.1 million per AOT installed
AOT Lease Price = $300K per month per AOT installed
Pie, I wasn't going to put this out there, but since you asked perhaps Smile and the rest of this board can take it apart for our collective edification.
We can extrapolate from this brochure what QSEP expects the selling price of the AOT to be in the open pipeline operator market. Here’s my math:
Least Case AOT Revenue/Savings = $52,520 per day X Payback Period of 730 days (2 yrs.) = $38.3 million Total Contract Value (TCV). The estimated length of the pipeline in the brochure example is 290 miles.
From prior analyses, we know that AOTs deployed fully across an entire pipeline are placed every 75 miles or so. 290 mi / 75 mi = 4 AOTs installed in this scenario.
$38.3 million TCV / 4 AOTs installed = $9.5 million per AOT if purchased or $400K per AOT per month if leased.
We can expect a 25% discount to Kinder Morgan because of all the help from their engineers and the patience their executive team has granted QSEP in order to commercialize the AOT to industry standards. Such a reasonable contract discount gives us the following AOT estimated final pricing:
AOT Purchase Price = $7.1 million per AOT installed
AOT Lease Price = $300K per month per AOT installed
Methinks this is going to get very exciting very soon. GLTA!!!
What? I don't see it, AISI.
There still seems to be some confusion over what the recent FORM 4 filings actually mean.
Annually, the members of QSEP's Board of Directors receive compensation for serving in that capacity. This year, that compensation was in the form of a grant of stock options from QSEP to each Member of the Board of Directors. The stock option entitles the holder the right to purchase stock at $0.19 once vesting has occurred and prior to the expiration of the term of the option (the option expires 1/1/2026). Anytime stock is purchased using these options the individual exercising that right must put up the $0.19 per share.
The individuals receiving those options have not as yet put up any money to exercise them.
Please note that most of this information is at the bottom of FORM 4 under the heading "Explanation of Responses".
Explanation of Responses:
( 1) The stock options reported under item 5 above were granted to each member of lssurer's Board as equity compensation under the Issuer's Board Compensation Policy, approved by the Board on June 19, 2015. The options granted under item 5 vest at the rate of 1/12 per month, commencing January 1, 2016, with full vesting on December 31, 2016.
Reporting Owners
Reporting Owner Name / Address
Relationships
Director 10% Owner Officer Other
BLUM CHARLES
735 STATE STREET, #500
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101 X
Signatures
/s/ Charles Blum
** Signature of Reporting Person
Form 4s filed 5/9/16 by 2 directors!
Guys/Gals – Those Form 4s reflect that QSEP directors, Don Dickson and Mark Stubbs, exercised stock options representing a combine 657,895 shares of QSEP common stock at a price of $0.19. Today’s stock price is $0.15 per share. This means they are buying into a loss as of today. Why would they do that? What's the impetus for exercising ANY stock options for QSEP right now?
The answer seems straightforward. Yesterday's PR by CEO Gregg Biggers and follow on 10Q reported that the AOT testing on the Kinder Morgan pipeline (located in the Eagle Ford Shale region of Texas) is showing promising results. The aforementioned Form 4s reporting that 2 company directors (a/k/a “insiders”) exercised their option to purchase $125,000 of QSEP stock at a potential market loss (today) tells me that the probability of an AOT SALE to Kinder Morgan, well, just went up substantially.
These insiders MUST know something GOOD is coming down the sales pipeline (pun intended). ?
Hold onto your hats!
Ditto, ditto!
I agree with your assessment, tripp1. Look, ask yourselves the following:
1) Why did Eakle and company clean up the Xtreme Technologies books and operations IF they're going to steal from Peter (us) to pay Paul (themselves)? Could've just as easily ignored the problems and put the extra expensive consulting dollars in their own pockets.
2) Why have Eakle and company continued to sign up distribution partners IF they intend to used the company to further milk investors via a RS maneuver. Just as easily could've stopped pursuing any new business development and put the extra sales dollars in their own pockets.
3) Why do many legit companies significantly increase the authorized common stock? Answer: Management uses this strategy as a Golden Parachute to protect the company from a hostile takeover attempt just prior to the company becoming viable and highly profitable.
Just saying...GLTA!
Precisely, KC! If Gregg brings home the bacon, not the bifurcation, we WIN. If he can't CLOSE THIS SALE or one soon thereafter, well....PRAY whether you believe in it or not.
So true, Cpopp. Enough of this bifurcation strategy. WE NEED BIGGERS TO CLOSE A SALE WITH SOMEONE in order to save our investment. I'm a big fan of QSEP, but they've cost me a fortune to date. Just want one POSITIVE STEP that produces REVENUES for this company. GLTA!
Mr. Bigger: We don't need the constant pump. We need RESULTS! Just CLOSE A SALE.
So our dark horse investment, QSEP, is UP over a nickel per share today. What's the takeaway? I believe that with every passing day that does NOT bring NEWS of a KM AOT CANCELLATION brings us CLOSER to a KM AOT CONTRACT. The next several weeks will be telling indeed, IMO.
Wishing all of you LONGS, who've held your collective fire for so long, THE BEST OF QSEP's POTENTIAL SUCCESS.
Cheers!!!
I hope Gregg B. understands the CRITCALITY of this KM retest of our newly re-engineered AOT. Folks, you read the 10-K. We're on the precipice.
Sure, the AOT science has been proven seven ways to Sunday. That doesn't matter if it doesn't run well enough to produce a SIGNED CONTRACT.
The bottom line is that we are cash poor and we've used up all our chits making one AOT/Joule commercialization mistake after another. Not mistakes with NO NAME companies, but mistakes with BIG BOY OIL COMPANIES. We can' afford another misstep this month.
This KM AOT deployment must be FLAWLESS. If not, well you know...
$treet Trader, I like your style! Let's push this thing higher. My recent 3 mil share purchase at 0002 is starting to look a little brighter. Cheers!
We're reading the same tea leaves on this stock, Diversified. I did the same and now await my fate. GLTA!!!
Right now, I've got no "rational" option but to roll the the dice and average down. Fingers crossed....XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Game - Your last comment is most soothing. Why? ALKM management is seriously challenged to clean up the XTREME mistakes (no pun intended) of the past. They don't need to take on any new ventures. Just get the water produced, out the door, onto the shelves, and into consumers' hands all the while making money doing it.
This is what will please shareholders, IMHO.
GLTA!!!