@Cryptical Envelopment
Plant #1 will be out of optimization and at full production by end of june/early July. Revenue picture will be clear after that.
Plant #2 arriving Q4 2023 (Murphy law add a quarter) This plant will be refining wells #1 and #2 which have other rare earth gasses, it will have a liquification unit which broadens the customer base.
Plant #3 critical components on order, expect Q2-Q3 next year ( this plant will be placed on someone elses wells, i'm guessing petrosun)
Their plant technology is getting a lot of traction. It's mobile, it refines to much higher quality than other peers, It can run off multiple different energy sources 50% more efficiently than peers, It can be operated remotely, It requires no permanent structure, and is capable of refining low yield wells such as nat gas that generally have less than .07% helium. This obviously opens a lot doors to lease plants down the road or sign offtake agreements.
Hydrogen well program begins this summer. Massive govt funding/IRA loan support available , carbon credits, etc if they can prove up these fields and produce them. Our partnership with Beam Energy will help move this along. There is some belief that they hydrogen is being actively being produced underground at such a rate that they could produce at a fixed rate indefinitely. They hydrogen would likely be converted to ammonia for transport and then converted back to hydrogen for consumption. Simple process that densifies the energy several multiples and removes transport risk as hydrogen is extremely volatile. The science/geology community is just now stumbling on new ways to search for helium/hydrogen creation underground so a lot of this is very new unexplored theories and true wildcatting. I personally am not counting on anything from the hydrogen side anytime soon but i'm paying close attention. Green hydrogen is the cleanest of hydrogen and would be the cheapest to produce so we're talking about a potentially very large new vertical and some diversification.
If you read the Beacon report they were very conservative on some of the values i'm using to project revenue/profit. Specifically the MCF price and EPS multiple used to create their price target in the short term. They did lay out later in article their is a significant chance DME exceeds those expectations and mentioned what those values could be (2500MCF top end and 5-10x EPS) I believe they used $750 an MCF and 3.5x P/E as their baseline.
The plant #1 delays and financings because of those delays were unfortunate but the long term growth potential here is massive. Remember we're only 8 wells and 1 plant into a 60-80 Arizona helium well program.