Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from [Alfred Blakey – Gun Allen].
[Alfred Blakey – Gun Allen]
It looks like you’re really going forward with the process and everything and hopefully we’re in the last phases. It always seems like something jumps up where there is one more thing before a contract needs to happen or perfecting the machines, getting costs down on the machines but I think you guys will get there. I just have something, it’s a little bit irrelevant but it has to do with the company itself, that lawsuit that you guys were in it recently just went on.
I know you just won it at the state level but was there a federal lawsuit going on or the company Clean Fuels tried to – how did that wrap up? Is there any news on that?
Stanley W. Farmer
Let me respond to that, that trial started on December the 1st and it ran for 10 days. It recessed last Friday without the judge rendering a ruling. For those that don’t know, it was a bench trial and not a jury trial so the evidence from both sides has been presented to the judge, the judge recessed the trial without reaching a verdict and we are now in the process of preparing post trial briefs that will be provided back to the judge in mid January that will then enable him to render his final conclusion probably late January, early February. That’s really all we can say about it at this point.
Operator
Our next question is from [David Munson] – Private Investor.
[David Munson] – Private Investor
In regard to your European partner and the ongoing testing there, if that proves to be successful is the 15,000 barrel a day unit that you have there sufficient to move in to some sort of quasi commercial operation?
Larry Ryan, Ph.D.
I think the short answer to your question is that where the unit is, it’s sufficient for the quantity of oil that goes through that site. But, clearly we’re obviously looking at the relationship with the European partner as one that’s going to be a lot bigger and broader than that. We anticipate a number of steps in that process. I think we’ve made a tremendous amount of progress with them in the past couple of months and we want to move as quickly as possible.
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