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XLT XL Tech.

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28 Mar 2024 - Closed
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Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
XL Tech. LSE:XLT London Ordinary Share COM STK USD 0.001 (DI)
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  0.00 0.00% 13.00 - 0.00 00:00:00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
0 0 N/A 0

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DateSubjectAuthorDiscuss
18/2/2008
12:49
GCI's tipping record for XLT has been disastrous.

20 July 2005: GCI said BUY at 370p

10 April 2006: GCI said BUY at 370p on the basis of Charles Stanley projecting an end of year NAV per share of 393p. By end of 2007 they were reckoning it would reach 618p !!!

4 May 2006: GCI said BUY at 370p

15 May 2006: GCI said HOLD at 325p

Now they say BUY.

I see trades of 50,000, 50,000 and 25,000 today. All SELLs at 31p

When there's a tip there's a tap ......

goodnight vienna
18/2/2008
12:38
Volumes improving. I suspect you are right about the price - I have been watching these with interest for over a year and I decided to make a stand last week.
tp100
18/2/2008
12:17
i got some at 30p last week but should have piled in bigtime as we wont see them at that level again,i doubt
thailand
18/2/2008
11:53
Spotted the summary. Now we wait for an update...
tp100
18/2/2008
11:44
have a look on their site,click on recommendations,you dont need to subscribe to see it.Charles Stanley says "visible" NAV of 150p by year end
thailand
18/2/2008
10:10
what is GCI?

...Growth Company Investor, yes I found it but not a subscriber. What does it say? Price target?

tp100
16/2/2008
11:34
Tipped as a strong buy in GCI.
androyd
15/2/2008
11:34
31-35p....
tp100
15/2/2008
10:59
Another move higher (30-34p), I am adding again. Nice volume at 32p.
tp100
11/2/2008
17:33
An Ecellent Punt at these levels, 29p -32p

a long steady slow riser i think this one

Target £3.00p

vision88
11/2/2008
16:13
29p-32p...(KBC on the bid)

MT Glass - perhaps not relevant to Petroaglae except highlighting the potential size of the market. We need to see progress in 2008.

tp100
11/2/2008
15:51
Now 28p-32p... (WINS on the bid)
tp100
11/2/2008
15:50
Now joined by KBC, spread 27p-32p. Congratulations if you picked some up.
tp100
11/2/2008
15:49
CODE now on the bid at 27p, I have added again.
tp100
11/2/2008
15:02
This is either good news or bad news - depending how you read it:



Solazyme Ups Soladiesel Testing to B100
11 February 2008
Solazyme, which recently announced the road-testing of blends of Soladiesel, its first algal biodiesel (earlier post), has successfully taken the test blends up to B100, according to Jonathan Wolfson, Solazyme's CEO.

Soladiesel, the first of Solazyme's planned algal fuel projects, is a biodiesel produced from algae that are engineered to produce an oil with an optimized fatty acid profile to enhance cold flow performance, among other properties, and are also modified to grow in the dark in industrial fermentation tanks fed with plant sugars.

The lipid composition is really important. We went out and spoke to the biodiesel companies, got their specs for lipid composition, and that's what we're producing. Our results are far better than soy, palm and canola.

-Jonathan Wolfson

Soladiesel exceeds the requirements of both the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) biodiesel standard D6751 and the European standard EN 14214. International biodiesel standards have some significantly different property specifications, highlighted by a recent study on global standards for bioethanol and biodiesel. (Earlier post.) The study suggested that one way of bridging the differences could be by blending biodiesel from different feedstocks. Soladiesel avoids that issue.

As critical as the composition of the oil molecules might be, the ability to scale production is the primary factor, according to Wolfson.

One of the things we did very early on was to talk to all the oil companies, saying we can produce these ideal oil compositions for under two bucks a gallon.

They said "Stop talking, start listening. Don't sit here and tell me you can make the ideal molecule...show me you can do it at scale. If you can scale it, you can bring production cost down over time."

So we threw out the R&D plans designed to make the ideal lipid molecule, and we started working on scale from a very early point, which is why we can actually scale now. We were fortunate because we hired good scientists, and we were able-even though the main focus was scale-in being able to carefully modify the composition to be what we wanted.

-Jonathan Wolfson

Wolfson estimates that Solazyme has another two to three years of work until it is at production economics, defined as parity with fossil fuels.

Growing algae in fermentation tanks. The focus on scale and production economics was one of the drivers to modify algae to grow in the dark in fermentation tanks, sustained by sugar, rather photosynthetically in the open. Growing conventional, photosynthetic algae in the open requires dealing with the variability of the environment, light limitations and contamination with microbes.

In 2001, researchers at the Department of Plant Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Palo Alto, California, and Martek Biosciences Corporation in Columbia, Maryland-which sells algae-derived products-were the first to introduce a fundamental metabolic change in a single-celled alga so that it no longer required light to grow.

The scientists found that by inserting just one gene that catalyzes glucose transport into the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum, the organism could thrive in the dark, getting its energy exclusively from the glucose. This marked an important first step toward large-scale, high-density, cost effective cultivation of algae using fermentation technology. The results of their study were published the journal Science.

For their experiments, the scientists individually inserted several genes responsible for glucose transport from three different organisms into P. tricornutum.

One of the genes, hup1, came from the green alga Chlorella kessleri. Three other genes, hxt1, hxt2 and hxt4, come from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, widely used in brewing, baking and ethanol production. The final gene, glut1, and the one that had shown the most promise, was involved in transporting glucose into human red blood cells to maintain metabolic processes.

The investigators introduced each of these genes into the alga and found that both the hup1 and glut1 genes allowed it to take up high levels of glucose and thrive in the dark.

Other Sola-fuels. Solazyme, which recently entered into a biodiesel feedstock development and testing agreement with Chevron Technology Ventures, a division of Chevron USA, in the shorter term is also working on developing algae optimized to produce oils for use in hydrotreatment at a refinery.

For hydrotreatment, you might want to have higher saturation [in the algal oil] and you want low saturation levels for methyl esters.

-Jonathan Wolfson

Solazyme has also received funding from NIST to support a project to use algae to produce biopetroleum, which will match the composition of light sweet crude oil. (Earlier post.) The biopetroleum would be fully compatible with the infrastructure that refines, distributes retails and consumes petroleum products-not just automobile fuels but aviation fuel and chemicals as well.

As with Solazyme's other algae-derived fuels, the biopetroleum would be produced by algae grown in fermentation tanks. The NIST funding is expected to accelerate the project by four years.

Algae are amazing. The molecules they make naturally would blow your mind. They make long chain hydrocarbons naturally-we're taking that capability and enhancing that.

We're not putting in a whole new pathway. If you do that, it can't scale, you're fighting the organism. We're working with the evolutionary biology of the organisms, and taking tools of modern biotechnology to enhance them.

-Jonathan Wolfson

m.t.glass
11/2/2008
13:36
WINS now also on the bid, 3 vs 2.
tp100
11/2/2008
11:44
There has been research from Charles Stanley - the figure of £25m is a best guess from that and other related news. I asked around on Friday and found out that the 428k trades at 20p was a buy and sell through ML although I have no idea as to the reason. I am speculating that there was a forced seller in an illiquid market. However, there was also a 200k trade at 20p and this is perhaps why the price has slipped.

Until we get an update we simply don't know.

tp100
11/2/2008
11:29
it is getting very cheap given the Tyratech asset backing; I own it from 62p, but may well add soon

tp100 - how do you make £25m debt? that sounds about right as it was roughly £20m of debt as at 30 June 07, and they'll have been spending money since then. Also, may I ask how you know the details re trading (ie. that ML bought the stock in house)?

utwiq
11/2/2008
10:54
Merrill Lynch had an internal seller on Friday and with an illiquid market, they simply bought the stock in house at 20p. I'm expecting a preclose update later this month, which will clarify their position.

Classic high risk/high return investment - I decided to dip a toe in and then look to act quickly on the update.

If you are screen watching, you could wait for an improvement in the bid price then try to jump in with a small purchase before the other market makers can react. However, CODE (Nomura) is the only real player so things could move very quickly in my view.

Good luck.

tp100
11/2/2008
10:44
So why is it falling?
m.t.glass
11/2/2008
10:06
Ok so they have £25m of debt but own £50m of Tyratech, which they are allowed to sell in June (and I understand there is demand). Clearly there is risk involved but the potential upside from 29p looks massive. We shall see!
tp100
11/2/2008
09:43
Massive opportunity, I'm buying this morning. The put through on Friday should mark the bottom - expect an update before they go into the close period
tp100
11/2/2008
08:34
Down by over a third today.
Now lost 92.5% of its value in 18 months..

m.t.glass
08/2/2008
16:42
And another late trade of 200,000 at 20p

Wassat all about?

Edit: Departing director exercising his options is explanation offered elsewhere.

m.t.glass
08/2/2008
10:54
Dropped another 13% in the past half hour alone.

And what interpretation to folk here put on that big swap or rollover or whatever this morning, 438,735 shares at 20p ?

m.t.glass
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