RE: Open Offer Doc3 Mar 2021 23:27
l Morocco – In November 2019, the Company signed a Material Transfer & Cooperation Agreement
with a major chemicals group in Morocco. Rapid progress was made with project plans in early 2020,
to enable a phase 1 pilot kiln trial to commence at the client’s main site (“Site A”) in March 2020.
Unfortunately, COVID-19 restrictions led to this being postponed; after a Quadrise Pumping and
Heating Unit (“PHU”) and the MSAR® fuel (manufactured at QRF) had been received at the client’s site.
Whilst the client’s Site A was closed to external visitors and non-essential employees from March 2020,
the QFI project team worked closely with the client and our Moroccan agent, to minimise the impact
on the overall project timetable. The first action taken by the Quadrise project team was to positively
engage with the client and obtain their agreement to bring forward the second phase feasibility study
originally planned to have followed the successful completion of the pilot plant trial.
As a result of this decision, the feasibility study commenced in Q2 2020 and the pilot trial was
successfully completed in October 2020. Rather than immediately progressing from the pilot trial to
the intended commercial trial, (based on the phase 2 feasibility study), as initially planned, the client
and the QFI project team, jointly agreed an intermediate stage of an industrial scale trial at another of
the client’s locations (“Site B”). This strategy will help to reduce the overall programme risk, as this
location has more operational flexibility for accommodating the next trial.
As announced on 2 February 2021, the work on the newly planned industrial-scale trial is progressing,
with a new PHU (which can be utilised for both the industrial and commercial trials) fabricated and
ready for shipment. As the Site B trial requires around 60mt of MSAR® fuel, this needs to be
manufactured by third parties. Our initial plans for this were impacted by the recent tightening of
COVID-19 restrictions in the UK and we are now finalising contingency plans for the fuel to be
manufactured and sent directly to site. The joint project team are working with the client’s Site B to
finalise plans for the industrial trial scheduled to be completed as early as possible in H1 2021 along
with the phase 2 feasibility study. QFI will be paid £100,000 for the industrial trial and phase 2 study
under existing agreements with the client.
Following the successful conclusion of the industrial trial, the plan is to complete the commercial trial
at the main site (“Site A”), which is the major fuel oil consumer, by early/mid H2 2021. Assuming the
successful conclusion of these trials, the intention would then be to conclude a commercial supply
agreement covering one or more of the client’s sites in Morocco.
To recap, the major milestones planned are;
? H1 2021 – industrial scale trial at Site B. Complete phase 2 feasibility studies for the commercial
trial at Site A.
? Early/mid