Corporate Slide Show

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Diversifying Revenue Streams in Natural Gas
Processing
2006 US-ALGERIA Energy Forum May 15/16 -
Washington D.C.
A. H. Benkrid, PhD
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Natural Gas Processing Value Chain
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Natural Gas Processing
Sulfur
Methane Pipeline
Pipeline Gas
Refined Helium
LNG Liquefaction
Pipeline Gas
Methane
NATURAL GAS PROCESSING
Ethane
LPG
Natural Gas
Liquid Fuels (Diesel, Naphta)
GTL
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Helium Industry Value Chain
Extraction
Purification

Liquefaction
Distribution Transfill
End-User Industries
Wholesale

• Bulk Gaseous Helium
• Iso-Container Helium
• Dewar Helium
• Cylinder Helium
• Specialty Gases
• Services

• Bulk Gaseous Helium
• Dewar Helium
• Cylinder Helium

Gaseous Crude Helium
Liquid Pure Helium
Liquid Pure Helium
Producers
Crude Helium
Industrial Gas Companies
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GLOBAL HELIUM OVERVIEW
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Natural Gas Fields Containing Helium
EAST HANOVER
PLANT NEAR
FIELDS, FRG
SALZWEDEL, FRG
ODOLANOW PLANT
OSTROW, POLAND
BRITISH COLUMBIA/
ALBERTA, CANADA
ORENBURGSKIJ, GPZ
NORTH SEA
ORENBURG, RUSSIA
IRKUTSK AREA,
ALGERIA
RUSSIA
RILEY RIDGE
WYOMING
MOAB, UTAH
SECHAUN PLANT
SOUTHEAST
CHINA
COLORADO
MEREENIE FIELD
FOUR
NORTHERN
CORNERS
TERRITORY
IRAN
AREA
OMAN
LIBYA
WOODADA FIELD
NORTH FIELD,QATAR
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
HUGOTON/
Helium Producing
PANHANDLE
SAUDI ARABIA
FIELDS
Helium Producing Potential
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Helium Availability Secures Additional Revenues
Long Term Estimated Reserves in Ground (depends
on level of future natural gas extraction)
Near Term Helium Contained in Natural Gas
Production (Projected 2015 demand 9 BCF)
1Cliffside Stored Reserve 26BCF in 2005 source
US BLM
Future Natural Gas extraction will generate
sufficient volumes to satisfy future helium
demand at current levels and 4 CAGR
Maximizing helium recovery from quantified
natural gas vent streams would be sufficient to
meet demand for the next 10 years and generate
additional revenues for LNG processing plants
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2- Store if possible - crude helium in-ground
for future use as in the Cliffside system in the
U.S.
Capturing Helium Molecules at the Source
1- Install a facility that processes
helium-bearing natural gas currently being sent
to areas that do not recover helium.
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Improving Overall Profitability

• Recovering/Refining Crude Helium Contained in
  Natural Gas as a By-Product, Requires Additional
  Operating Cost of 20 to 30 per Thousand Cubic
  Feet which results to a Product Liquid Helium
  sold on a wholesale basis at 50 to 60 per
  Thousand Cubic Feet.
• Working Further down the Helium Value Chain
  Requires Very High Investments and a Creation
  of a Core Business Similar to Industrial Gas
  Companies.

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Helium Processing Schematic

Crude Helium FEED GAS
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Downstream of the Helium Chain

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Conclusion

• Helium, if Present in Native Natural Gas, Grants
  a Unique Opportunity to Natural Gas Processing,
  to Diversify from Oil Gas Industry, and to
  Generate Additional Revenue.
• Oil Gas Producers Will Want to Focus Resources
  on Finding and Producing Natural Gas rather than
  Have the End-User Refined Helium Market and its
  Expansion Default to Them.
• An Industrial Gas Company Provides
• a Collection of Assets and Services that Help
  Link Helium Supply with Demand
• the Ability to Link the Oil Gas Producer to the
  End-User in the Value Chain.
• The Focus to Expand the Refined Helium Business

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