Richcorp, Inc. a division of Geotec, through exhaustive testing utilizing the Asphaltite, a term coined by the Argentine people to describe their version of bituminous coal, has acquired intimate knowledge of this material and the benefit of conversion to a pipeline feedstock. Exhaustive laboratory testing and hundreds of hours of pilot testing have verified that the coal-like asphaltite has this base of information as to what the material actually contains and the material properties, 

The burn out temperature was 1056º F utilizing the ASTM method of D-2887. This is indicative a minimum of 97% with empirical data indicating even less ash or residue from the asphaltite. Considering that a metric ton, 1000 kgs of the asphaltite would have approximately 1000 liters based on the specific gravity of the asphaltite and that a standard "barrel" (bbl) of oil contains 42 U.S. gallons or very close to 159 liters then each ton of asphaltite should contain 6.3 bbls of oil available for conversion assuming a conservative 80% recovery of these hydrocarbons then a minimum of 5.04 bbls of oil would be produced. The following projection will show the potential return from each ton of asphaltite and other coals based on the pilot testing/laboratory results from the asphaltite. One barrel of oil (1 bbl) has the energy equivalent to about 558.44 scft (standard cubic feet of gas). [Note: one million cubic meters of syngas is the equivalent of 37.3 million standard cubic feet or 10.4 billion btu's.]