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Technology Stocks : OILS - OTCBB: bringing stranded natural gas to market -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bruno who wrote (6)	6/10/1998 8:57:00 AM
From: John S. Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275

> is that something that could make a big difference? < I think so. I am an investor in RNTK, which uses an iron-based catalyst. Most other commercial F-T processes use a cobalt-based catalyst. I am not a petroleum engineer, but as I understand it, there are a lot of "pollutants" (my word) which can harm the cobalt catalysts; hence they must be used with cleaner gas sources. RNTK is capable of handling both natural gas sources and refinery bottoms -- the heavy sludge which is left after everything else useful is distilled off -- without being destroyed. SLHO and others are currently limited to clean natural gas conversion. (In fairness, it appears that RNTK's process, when used for natural gas, may be slightly more expensive than the cobalt-based processes.) Also disposing of the spent cobalt catalysts poses an environmental problem??? All I know about petroleum and F-T processes is what I have read on the InterNet while doing Due Diligence on RNTK and SLHO. There is a lot of stuff. Best place to start is RNTK's Web site.