DME Clean Energy Pty. Ltd. (DMECE) intends to develop a new opportunity for the struggling Australian brown coal industry.  The company has asked Unitel to design an enhanced process for making DME from brown coal mined in the State of Victoria.  With a prevailing price of $7 per ton for brown coal, the underlying economics of this business are exceptionally attractive. 

When SINOPEC made a decision to acquire 17 state-of-the-art pilot plants for its Research Institute of Petroleum Processing (RIPP) laboratories in Beijing and Fushun, it engaged Fluor Corporation to identify the “best” source for this equipment and manage all aspects of this procurement.  Fluor in turn awarded the entire contract to our company under the leadership of Serge and Ravi Randhava. 

In response to environmental pressures, most countries in the world continue to decrease the allowed sulfur levels in diesel used for transportation applications.  Currently (2010) all highway diesel fuel refined in or imported into the United States must have a sulfur content of 15 parts per million (ppm) or lower.  Some countries in Europe are actively promoting the use of 10 ppm or even 5 ppm standards.