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Tech Breakthrough Could Transform The Oil Sectorbrian wang | November 28, 2017 |
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As Saudi Arabia spins from crisis to crisis, U.S. oil hasn’t missed a beat. It’s stronger and more resilient than ever– and it has nothing to do with OPEC oil production cuts.
In this war, U.S. oil wins, and the recent purge of billionaire princes in Saudi Arabia is icing on the cake.
But when Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman arrested key members of the royal family on corruption charges two weeks ago all of them his rivals– oil shot up. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) spiked more than $2 a barrel, closing around $57 a barrel—a nearly two-
year high.
OPEC cuts have done little to boost oil prices, and Royal Family arrests are welcome news for oil tycoons the world over, but it’s still not what’s kept the U.S. on the winning side in this war:
Fracking bust the U.S. through the front line, and major advancements in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) are cementing the victory.
This is a sophisticated technology story, and one little-known company might just tell it best because it’s sitting on the first-ever technology which has the ability to produce oil from massively untapped U.S. oil sands plays, with price targets for production at around $22 a barrel.
The company is Petroteq Energy Inc. (TSX:PQE.V; OTCQX:PQEFF), and it’s all about American oil for America. But it’s not just about market-defying prices … It’s about a tech breakthrough that renders dirty oil sands production process clean—for the first time
And Petroteq isn’t aiming just to be producing cheaper oil—it intends to license its advanced technology globally, targeting not only the 1 trillion-plus barrels of oil in sands in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, but the tens of trillions everywhere around the world.
Now, with oil prices rising and predictions of future upwards movement, new tech winning the war for North America, and Blockchain potentially transforming every industry on the planet, here are 5 reasons to watch Petroteq (TSX:PQE.V; OTCQX:PQEFF) very closely:
1) 87 Million Barrels of Oil Equivalent
The State of Utah is home to more than half of all U.S. oil sands deposits, and the Unitah region has been producing oil since the 1950s. It’s got more than 32 billion barrels of oil sands waiting to be extracted from 8 major deposits. It’s also got fantastic infrastructure, with 5 major refiners with truck routes to Salt Lake City, and a royalties set-up that makes great sense for operators.
And it’s right here—in Asphalt Ridge—that Petroteq has 87 million barrels of oil equivalent.
Even better, this is heavy oil-producing oil sands that can be accessed directly from the surface, so
there’s no risk of running into a ‘dry well’.
Better still, costs to produce expected to come in at only $22 a barrel.
With one plant, Petroteq says it’s potential is $10 million a year in profit with $20-$30 per barrel production costs at today’s oil prices.
They acquired Asphalt Ridge for $10 million, and they’ve already proved that they can extract the oil from the sands and the shale. Permits to produce are already in place, and 10,000 barrels were produced in 2015.
Now the modular plant has been moved even closer to oil resources and is being reassembled. New production is scheduled to launch in early 2018, and the goal is 5,000 bpd in 2019 at a cost of production of as low as $18 per barrel. And there’s potential, says Petroteq, to achieve 30,000 bopd with proven reserves.
Demand is expected to be voracious with oil that comes in at a $20 discount to WTI. And that’s just the oil from a single plant: This story gets much bigger if you read on…
The projected netbacks are impressive…
So, while oil sands in Canada are prohibitively expensive to produce in today’s oil-price environment, Petroteq has found a way to produce in Utah for a targeted $22 per barrel.
And it’s doing it in a clean, safe and efficient way with proprietary technology …
2) War-winning Proprietary EOR Tech
Winning the oil war against OPEC, and helping the U.S. to become energy independent is all about technology. And U.S. national interest right now is all about increasing domestic energy sources. This means that technological advances such as Petroteq’s (TSX:PQE.V; OTCQX:PQEFF) proprietary Liquid Extraction System will become a key focus for developing U.S. oil sands deposits—and not just in Utah.
Petroteq’s already has a significant claim to fame: Its patented oil extraction technology is the first ever to generate sales from Utah’s massive heavy oil resource.
Existing oil sands extraction technologies use tons of water and leave toxic trailing ponds. Petroteq’s system produces oil and leaves behind nothing but clean, dry sand that can be resold as fracking sand or construction sand or simply returned to Mother Nature.
In tests to date, it extracts over 99% of all hydrocarbons in the sand, generates zero greenhouse gases and doesn’t require high temperatures or pressures.
For Utah’s 32 billion barrels this tech is the Holy Grail.
This is how it works:
The end result? The extracted crude oil is free of sand and solvents and then pumped out of the system into a storage tank.
The only other place that has oil sands tech is Canada, and it doesn’t compete. It’s designed for wet oil sands and Petroteq is after the dry oil sands bonanza.
“The wet tech kills the environment,” says Petroteq Chairman and CEO Aleksandr Blyumkin, “but we use green additives that allows the sand to be removed in a very clean manner. No other company has what we have in this space.”
Technology like Petroteq’s can help make American oil for Americans at a time when energy dependence is as important to the national interest as security and diplomacy.
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Utah, Colorado and Wyoming represent over 1.2 trillion barrels of oil equivalent in oils sands and shale, and Petroteq is uniquely positioned to use its proprietary tech to tap into this resource and contribute to the U.S. energy independence equation in a significant way.
3) 3 Major Upside Factors That Will Surprise You
Oil sands has long been sidelined because it’s dirty. So, proprietary technology that can extract oil sands without leaving behind toxic trailing ponds is highly sought after.
This is far from a simple story about another small-cap oil producer. Petroteq’s technology could generate millions in licensing fees around the world, and it is eyeing the opportunity to file patents in all countries with oil sands reserves.
This technology is aimed to be deployed to cleanly unlock oil resources representing hundreds of millions of barrels of oil around the world. Licensing is a revenue stream that can flow to Petroteq (TSX:PQE.V; OTCQX:PQEFF) with no associated capital expenditure.
Worldwide, the licensing opportunities are vast, with over 12 countries home to major oil sands deposits.
Fortunes can be built on licensing fees, and Petroteq could have this segment cornered.
There’s even more upside beyond global licensing: Petroteq’s technology can be used for remediation, cleaning the tailing ponds created by traditional extraction methods for oil sands.
And the third area of upside is the most surprising because it brings Petroteq into one of the hottest sectors in centuries:
blockchain technology, the backbone of cryptocurrency.
Even supermajors BP, Shell and Statoil are getting into blockchain because it’s what computers were three decades ago and it could make oil and gas trading a lot easier. Their goal? To create a secure, real-time blockchain-based digital platform for physical energy transactions from start to finish. No more paper contracts, automatic authentication and verification, and – the death of the middle man. It promises to reduce costs for the industry, vastly improve the quality of data and bolster security—all the while, speeding things up exponentially.
Every single industry the world over will likely switch to blockchain because it’s efficient; it’s transparent; and it creates savings.
Petroteq is in the process of signing an agreement with First Bitcoin Capital, which specializes in crypto currency and blockchain development. The visionary small-cap will be licensing the blockchain built by IBM and will use this to make it industry-specific, giving the entire spectrum of oil—from upstream to downstream—access to massive data.
Once the product is finished in about six months, the intention is that there will be a free open source blockchain for massive oil data, including everything from how much oil someone bought to how much they paid and how long it took to deliver, where it was drilled, how it was refined—absolutely everything.
This is where the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes the Energy of Things. The trading houses will hate it, but no one owns blockchain, and Petroteq sees the opportunity to make massive data work for the entire industry.
Petroteq’s masterminds have already been busy courting major energy players on multiple continents to get involved.
Bitcoin might be worth over $9,000 per coin, but the real cryptocurrency is data—and this could be a gold mine for the energy industry.
4) Skin in the Game Expert Management Team
This management team is savvy and forward-thinking. That’s why it sees the opportunity not only in producing the first clean oil sands, but also in licensing its proprietary tech worldwide, and embracing the even bigger picture—blockchain.
Petroteq (TSX:PQE.V; OTCQX:PQEFF) is hoping to position itself as a sort of “Google” of the energy industry, with its no-holds- barred focus on technology. They aren’t looking 10 years into the future, they are looking into right now.
This is where some of the brightest minds in extraction tech, chemistry, and blockchain come together to form a dream team with extraordinary vision.
The Chairman and CEO of Petroteq, Aleksandr Blyumkin, has championed this Company and technology with millions of dollars, including an interest-free loan to expand the production capability at its Temple Mountain facility in Utah.
Founder and CTO Dr. Vladimir Podlipskiy is a 23-year veteran in chemistry, R and D and manufacturing, and a chemical scientist from UCLA. He’s the oil extraction tech genius with a line-up of patents for everything from oil extraction and mold remediation to fuel reformulators.
President Dr. R. Gerald Bailey is a former Exxon president of Arabian Gulf operations, Dr. R Gerald Bailey. He believes in the technology and the company’s ability to not only turn a profit, but protect the environment while doing so. He’s got more than 50 years of international experience at all spots along the oil and gas chain behind him, including as operations manager of Qatar General Petroleum Corp., Exxon Lago Oil in Aruba and Esso Standard Libya.
Chief Geologist Donald Clark, PhD, a widely published geologist and consultant, is the blockchain tech genius in this group, responsible for providing input to financial models, analyzing commodity price fluctuations and handling operational and transportation costs of oil and natural gas. And the team supporting them will be working towards licensing-Petroteq’s technology in as many countries as they can.
By February 2018, when production is expected to resume from the relocation of their modular facility, Petroteq may be in the spotlight for many investors. And in the meantime, heavy oil demand looks promising, oil prices are for the first time in years on a
trending upswing and blockchain, well, that’s simply changing the way business is done.
5) Prices on the Rise, Heavy Oil Demand Shifting Up
Now could be a good time to get back into oil because they’re calling the bottom and the market is in an upswing.
And prices could be kept higher by military action in the Middle East, the Kurdish independence drive and the specter of more U.S. sanctions on Iran, says Barrons. And Goldman Sach’s says near-term sentiment should remain bullish.
It’s a good time for heavy oil, too. Billions of dollars will be deployed to rebuild U.S. infrastructure and it requires exactly the kind of heavy oil that Petroteq (TSX:PQE.V; OTCQX:PQEFF) is scheduled to start producing again in February, 2018.
U.S. production growth has focused on light oil, and heavy oil is in strong demand, particularly on the Gulf Coast, where the billions of dollars put into heavy oil refineries means it needs a lot of oil to feed them.
Heavy oil traditionally trades at a discount, but as demand rises, the discount is disappearing.
This is a story of extracting $22 oil… in a $55-barrel world. Or, maybe even a $70-barrel world by next year.
This company breaks down everything and makes a much bigger picture out of the smaller pieces.
? Its technology breaks down oil sand extraction in a clean, low-cost, efficient closed-loop process.
? The clean sand has an upside of potential re-sale for fracking or construction.
? The proprietary tech itself can be used for cleaning up other oil sands messes around the world.
? And it will be licensed globally for major revenue potential from the Americas to Africa, and everywhere in between.
? It could all come together with the energy blockchain, harnessing the power of massive, transparent data for every stop in the oil and gas chain.
While Saudi billionaires are languishing in prison, Petroteq’s (TSX:PQE.V; OTCQX:PQEFF) innovative dream team is taking the re-emerging oil bull market by the horns, and riding the biggest digital wave of our time—blockchain. This is where energy and technology come together definitively, and one they piece it all together, it could be a very large force in a small-cap world.
By. Ian Jenkins
