Yes an engineer but lets call it a TECH Engineer. Compressed air technology is its main business, develops industrial air compressors and Gas seals and whats more it provides them for the OIL and GAS industry.
Very close to commercialisation now with its compressors and seals and todays deal ( see below ) should bring that very close.

Charges upfront payments, continuing royalties and development contracts so revenues are not lumpy.

It as a market cap circa off the top of my head 20 million(hope my calculator is now working) and as circa of 5 million cash on the books, very nice.

Some very big names as customers.

Heres todays announcement...........

Corac Group Plc
26 May 2004


For Immediate Release 26 May 2004


Corac Group plc ('Corac')

Joint Industry Programme for Downhole Gas Compression

Corac, the intellectual property and licensing company specialising in
compressor technology, is pleased to announce the signature today of a Joint
Industry Programme ('JIP') for the development of its unique, patented downhole
gas compression technology.

Following the recent successful completion of a Shell funded feasibility study
which evaluated both the technical and economic viability of the technology,
considerable industry interest has been generated, culminating in the addition
of a further four major international oil and gas operators to the project.

The participants of the JIP comprise ConocoPhillips, ENI, Husky Energy,
Repsol-YPF as well as Shell, all of whom have gas assets worldwide which they
believe could benefit from this game changing technology. As well as covering
the development costs for the next phase, the participants will also make
substantial resource available to ensure the final product specification meets
the requirements of the industry.

Corac's downhole gas compression concept involves the coupling together of a
number of axial compressor modules in a single compression train for
installation in the well bore in close proximity to a gas reservoir. In this
location, a modest uplift in pressure results in a very significant increase in
gas production compared with conventional methods using surface compression,
thereby accelerating gas production and cash flow from a producing asset.
Potential production rate enhancement of up to 40% has been demonstrated through
the application of downhole gas compression during a number of gas field case
studies carried out over recent months.

Placing the compressor downhole could also have the effect of being able to
lower the reservoir abandonment pressure which in turn would materially increase
the ultimate recovery from a gas field, thereby further enhancing the economic
benefit from the installation of this novel application of existing technology.

Phase 1 of the JIP is scheduled for completion by the end of 2004, with further
engineering and development work leading to the manufacture and testing of a
prototype downhole in a producing gas well within the following two years.

Commenting on the JIP, Professor Gerry Musgrave, Chairman, said:

'The support from such eminent oil and gas companies vindicates Corac's
development to date of the downhole gas compression project and gives the Group
another product line to bring to the market using its core technologies. It is
the start of a major business development opportunity which is expected to have
significant international ramifications throughout the upstream natural gas
industry.'ENDS.

Although loss making at the moment it shouldnt be very long before this one turns the corner.

Outlook

The Company has a loyal, talented workforce dedicated to the innovation and
exploitation of the technology. Successful trials have demonstrated the
commercial performance in Corac's industrial air compressor and its seals. The
Board is striving to deliver the right manufacturing and sales licences which
will yield the best returns in the long term.

We are confident that a number of deals, which have been subject to recent
intensive negotiation, will be successfully concluded in the near term.

Short to medium term investment, and anyone interested should DYOR and please remember you are responsible for the timing of your buying and selling actions.

cheers GF.

If i top up anymore here they will have to release an RNS...!

something, possibly good, looks to be afoot ..... sp is up about 10% and IG shows trading against phone call only ...... in fact, that could mean that the share is in an auction phase or similar in the market ..... would have said suspension, buyt that would have given the wrong vibes!

cynic - neither suspended, nor auction according to L2. All 4 MMs moved up, shore, winterfloods and Kleinworts all moved about 10.30am. Cenkos (quoting lowest prices) moved @ 8.23am.

perhaps IG are just at their internal limit, or even a screen error .... anyway, more than happy to see sp +10% though + a lot more would be better!

Maybe - I'd expect the offer to move up (probably to 27p) when cenkos catch up.

Am expecting this one to rise on expectation of the forthcoming trial in Italy soon, only question is when??? was factoring in the turn of the year, but of course it is so oversold on potential that it could rise for any number of reasons... Doesn't get the coverage on this board, but the sheer potential cant be ignored by the market for much longer... I dont think Baker Hughes would have gone to all the trouble of signing and paying for a joint marketing agreement if they thought they would only be installing the one string of units in Italy and not selling multiples of units in the near future... A successful trial and the way that gas is extracted will have been changed for good - Corac are already working on much larger units capable of handling much higher temperatures than the current (low risk) gas well in Italy - with the view that the machines will half (or less) the number of wells needed to drain a field, add the savings together with the massive increases of reserves that majors will be able to book and it wont take long for the names of Exxon and BP to be added to the list of names enquiring about becoming a JIP, dont forget the market for ESP's in oil wells is massive but shared between many suppliers - CRA's patended air bearing DGC has no competitor... 8years of R&D and you can buy them now at the business end for about the same as they were 4 years ago, trial in Q1 next year - best risk/reward on the market bar none... imo

No news since October, sp drifting down further is anything happening to make shareholders feel less like mushrooms?

Still slipping, no news is.......?

Halifax, chill man, its all going on in the background - if you need reminding, ask yourself why Baker hughes would have signed a joint marketing agreement with corac, on top of agreeing to adapt the power electronics from their ESP's to do the installations, if they thought they would only ever deploy the one string of machines in Italy... relax, 2009 will be the year of recognition...

BT hope you are right but surely CRA should manage their newsflow better presumably they are paying an agency to do this?

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looks like down the plughole though have not read the grim news yet .... glad my holding was never large

This is the crucial bit:

"Trading update
Downhole Gas Compressor ('DGC')
In June 2008, the Company announced that ENI SpA ('ENI'), a Joint Industry Programme ('JIP') partner, had committed to the first field trial downhole gas compressor ('DGC') unit to be deployed in one of their gas wells in Italy. The Company was aiming for deployment of the DGC field trial unit in Q1 2009.

Corac has been working closely with contractors engaged by ENI. These specialist suppliers have highlighted the need for additional safety equipment which will be delivered by third parties. This, unfortunately, will increase lead times. Corac is modifying its control systems to facilitate this and the combined impact will be a delay in deployment from Q1 2009 to a target of Q4 2009. The Company will use the time for continued testing at Spadeadam in Cumbria to improve reliability and reduce deployment risk.

The other JIP partners Conoco Phillips and Repsol continue to be involved in this programme."

another share disaster..

Not surprised, really. This has been far too slow to be real and in the final analysis I don't think it offers anything that has been available before. However, many posters are very excited by the co announcements and it is this that has supported a high sp.
+Let's hope it returns, so no-one loses out.

Can anyone say what their cash-position is?

Estimated to be 2.5m at 31st Dec 08.
2517

Basicly this is now "dead money" till at least Qtr 4 2009 unless there is a bid.

So who is this Hoot then..?

Ok so i know ive been a bull at the wrong time in this company, but although i dont see any rush, i still expect things to happen way earlier than Q4 09, it was at 94p in July on expectation, and a year is a long time on the markets - no we wont see a sky high rating until its proven but a couple of IA orders in pipeline from Fu-sheng, new Jips that could sign at any time and of course possible further developments at any time possible from the current Jips all indicate very minimal downside now and plenty of upside - a market cap of 10m is chicken feed for whats on offer and nice to see the IA side starting to get a (small) foothold in the market as people have disregarded its potential... the story hasn't changed but the time scale has imo...

BT keep hoping at the moment "the pie in the sky" has moved further away.