HUGE PROSPECT ON D1 OILS

D1 was originally established in 2002 to focus on the development of a portable refinery technology to produce biodiesel for the UK transport industry. During this period, it was concluded that the high cost of rape seed oil, the main feedstock for biodiesel production in Europe, renders its use commercially unattractive. As a result, D1 explored the economics, suitability and yields of a variety of specific energy crops. During 2003, jatropha curcas was identified as its feedstock of choice and the focus turned to securing output from jatropha plantations.

Jatropha was selected as D1's primary energy crop due to it's high productivity, durability and longevity. Jatropha trees can be grown on marginalised land and are durable to the elements. Furthermore, jatropha can grow in areas of minimal rainfall, although it grows better in areas of higher annual rainfall. Jatropha trees produce nuts, which contain oil, for an average of thirty years and generally have their first harvest within two years of planting. Biodiesel refined from jatropha oil complies with EN 14214, the current European standard for biodiesel. Biodiesel meeting EN 14121 specification is an approved blend when mixed with petroleum diesel.

D1 is now commercialising its D1 20 refinery able to produce eight million litres of biodiesel per annum and will utilise jatropha oil as its main feedstock. D1 believes it can maintain low production costs and produce consistent, high volume quality output through sourcing existing feedstock supplies, cultivating new yields of jatropha on existing plantations and setting up D1 20 refineries regionally. D1 is working with highly regarded agronomy and biotechnology research and development facilities in India and South East Asia and is participating in the establishment of nurseries in a variety of locations in the Asia Pacific region. These nurseries will test imported jatropha seeds against indigenous varieties to determine which will grow best under a region's climatic conditions. In addition, D1 has recently acquired the rights to a proprietary growing media which targets the specific nutritional requirements of jatropha.

The global market demand for biodiesel is growing. International energy and environmental policies have helped to create a demand for biodiesel which is estimated to reach at least 10.5 billion litres by 2010 in the European Union alone. Based on current capacity, feedstock availability and positioning in the market, the global production of biodiesel is expected to reach approximately
3 billion litres by 2010, less than one third of the projected demand in the European Union.

D1 Oils aims to become a global, sustainable, low cost producer of biodiesel and supplier of crude vegetable oil used in the production of biodiesel. To reach this objective, D1 will manage its operations regionally, securing plantation rights and establishing refinery operations in each region, thus controlling aspects of the supply chain from seed selection through to the sale of biodiesel to end customers.

To this end, D1 has established four regional operations:
UK (Teesside and London) South Africa (Johannesburg) Asia Pacific (Manila, the Philippines) and India (New Delhi).

Looks like someones reading this thread - a good response in the S.P. to our discussion cynic lol.

should have bought this morning .... however, for myself, that would have been a bit greedy as i have my notional full quota already

More green deals in pipeline
GREEN fuels company D1 Oils said it had further deals in the pipeline to sell its Teesside-manufactured biodiesel.

The Middlesbrough-based company signed its biggest contract to date earlier this year to supply biodiesel to Petroplus' Teesside division.

And in an update to the Stock Exchange yesterday, D1 said it expected to be announcing more deals soon.

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The company expects to expand UK production capacity to 320,000 tonnes by the end of next year, and 420,000 tonnes by the end of 2008.

It is currently making 32,000 tonnes a year at its Middlesbrough refineries. This will keep increasing, along with work at D1's second refining site in Merseyside.

D1 is currently manufacturing the biodiesel from soya oil, but has planted hundreds of thousands of hectares of the oil-producing jatropha plant around the world.

This is due to be harvested within the next two years, when all D1's fuel will come from the low-cost source. The other advantage of jatropha is it can grow on land considered too poor-quality for food crops.

Link: http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/business/news/display.var.1011212.0.more_green_deals_in_pipeline.php

wonder how much of the increase in output (ie the estimate of tenfold increase in production by end of next year) is included in current share price...?
i bought my virgin purchase of these this morning @183p...

great sp to get in at. you cant not make money ha

Hmm... I was hoping that the bid speculation wasnt holding the SP, but it looks that way -

So cheap, if only I had the money to invest,.

Think it will start to go up soon....all broker notes say the sp should be near 3...that was without the bid spec...and they are still in talks ...just not takeover ones...which i personally think is better for the company.....heres to hoping D1 have a nice Xmas pressie for their investors up their sleeves...;0)

for general info, i post a new chart here, which really is not very pretty ...... of late, each time it has hit 50 dma, it has fallen off sharply ...... only good thing is that there seems to be some supoort at the current level.

http://www.kbcpeelhunt.com/advantag/pdfs/Biofuels15Nov06_LJHER0872.pdf

Worth a look...;0)

from p1 summary:

mkt EV/tonne Rec.cap intended current target upside/
US$m US$ (downside)
Future Fuel 419 250 $8.29 $13.35 61% Corp #
D1 Oils* 110 492 1.86 2.66 43% BUY
BioFutures 73 620 0.26 0.28 7% SELL
China Bio-Diesel 88 793 1.04 0.87 -16% SELL
Bio-Fuels Corporation 35 739 0.38 0.13 -66% SELL

* giving no value for agronomy business

who the rebus group in sticker rbs in 1997?

????

consideable volume for DOO today - would proabbly bet that it will end in the red though, its just the DOO way,

35 million shares coming out at 1.65...this may bring the sp lower

well cynic this should help ensure that small trades don't have a disproportionate effect on the S.P anymore.

I have no idea about graphs but that doesnt look great! - cynic you still in?

Volumes low, mm trying to dissauade sellers as got too much stock? Could be quick bounce opportunity but risky at present

yes GD .... and rather regretting it at the moment! ...... no obvious reason why sp should bounce significantly, albeit there is no obvious reason why it should be falling so badly either

new 3 year chart below ..... there ought to be some reasonable support at this level ..... certainly today's fall of 10p looks ridiculous on the infinitessimal volume (just 55,000 at 14:50) ....... perhaps buy if you fancy a reasonable gamble.