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PRIMARY CONTACT PERSON Provide contact information for the primary point person for the contest entry.

First Name: Steven Last Name: Mann Title: President Email: [email protected] Phone: (702) 292-8600 COMPANY OR INSTITUTION INFORMATION Provide contact information for your business (if you have formed a company. A company not having yet been formed will not be a detriment to your application.)

1. If your submission is a New Product or Service:

Company: MicroEnergies, LLC Website: [email protected] Phone (main): (702) 292-8600 Number of employees: 0 Incorporation type: Limited Liability Year founded: 2007 Industry sector: Energy

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BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS Page 2 of 7 2011 $50,000 Shale Gas Innovation Contest Entry Form TEAM Provide the names and titles or areas of focus of your leadership/management/research team.

Name: Steven R. Mann Title or Area of Focus: President/Lead Project Developer

Name: Tad Dritz Title or Area of Focus: Director of Business Development Velocys

Name: Neville Hargreaves Title or Area of Focus: Director or Business Development Oxford Catalyst Patent Holder

Name: Ken Teague Title or Area of Focus: Business Development Primoris Resources EPC Contractor

Name: ______Title or Area of Focus: ______

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Market Opportunity: To Capture stranded natural gas reserves to take valueless gas energy and through proprietary modular micro-channel Fischer Tropsch (FT) technology created for small 500-1000 barrels per day of fuel production, transform that valueless stranded natural gas into diesel, jet fuel, specialties and waxes to be sold into the fuels commodities markets.

Description of your technology/product/service: Modlular micro-channel FT system designed for ultra small 500-1000 barrels per day production once thought impossible to make economically sound. The system is ¼ the size of other Fischer Tropsch systems and much less expensive on a per barrel basis.

Customers: Shale oil producers who are flaring natural gas or syngas Owners of stranded natural gas reserves that can’t get the gas to market At sea Oil Barges (system is small enough to fit on deck) Project Developers to create JVs with natural gas owners

Customer Problem: Stranded natural gas reserves are too far away to have access to pipeline for sale. This small modular FT system can be assembled a the reserve site’s well head and extract their natural gas to create profitable fuels.

BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS Page 4 of 7 2011 $50,000 Shale Gas Innovation Contest Entry Form Value Proposition: To create the small gas to liquids (GTL) markets by having created a super efficient microchannel FT-based system for small 500-1000 barrels per day projects that once were not possible with today’s large and expensive FT technology. The Velocys small modular FT-based system literally creates a market that has not existed….until today.

Intellectual Property: The super efficient catalyst is owned by Oxford Catalyst The microchannel design is owned by their sister company, Velocys

Competitive Advantage: Velocys FT is the most efficient FT system in the world for its size…and the most compact system in the world. The system is ¼ the size of comparable FT systems in the market today which means it can not only be deployed profitably but can fit on off-shore oil barges and rigs. Will revolutionize opportunities for small FT fuel projects from natural gas that were not available with past technology.

Team: Steven R. Mann, President of MicroEnergies, LLC – an alternative energy developer. Experience in the renewable energy field dating back to mid 1980s where he developed solar projects utilizing investor funded systems which allowed him to place solar systems on a shared savings basis so customers could save money using renewable energy without the capital expenditure. Steven now develops small biomass and GTL projects utilizing emerging commercialized technology recognizing the booming market in modular on-site energy production.

Tad Dritz, Business Development Director at Velocys – Oxford Catalyst Tad holds two U.S. patents and has authored/co-authored multiple papers and presentations on microchannel technology. He holds a bachelor of science in Chemical Engineering from Ohio University, as well as an MBA and an M.S. in Natural Resources and the Environment from the University of Michigan. Tad is also a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas.

Neville Hargreaves, Business Development manager at Oxford Catalyst:

BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS Page 5 of 7 2011 $50,000 Shale Gas Innovation Contest Entry Form Previously spent 12 years with Exxon including delivering over 70 new products to market as an R&D manager, then 4 years with Bain And Company, the global consulting firm, helping to transform some of the world’s most successful businesses and to deliver over £100M of value to clients. For the last 7 years Neville has focused on green technologies and led small clean technology businesses.

Ken Teague, Primoris Services, EPC Contractor – a chemical engineer, Ken worked for Exxon Mobile as a Gas Development and Contracts Engineer for 7 years before joining Primoris Services. Ken is VP of Business development for both Primoris Services Corporation and ARB, Inc. a division of Primoris. Primoris is a publicly traded EPC contractor with decades of experience in building power plants and other large municipal projects. Primoris will provide the expertise in engineering, procurement and construction to successfully complete FT projects.

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