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About Microbes, Inc.

Microbes, Inc. (the "Company") is a Delaware corporation headquartered at 1330 Lake Robbins Drive, Suite 220, The Woodlands, Texas 77380. The Company’s business is about increasing the yield of oilfields and food crops, the two most vital global industries. The business focuses on countries where the government’s priority is to produce all that are possible of these commodities domestically. Contrary to U.S. policy, increasing national oil production and food crops is of vital importance to most world economies and social welfare of a country’s citizens.

The Company is a developer and supplier of microbial products and services to the petroleum industry for the purpose of enhancing oil recovery from existing reservoirs. Since 1988, the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, National Parakleen Company, Inc., have developed and applied the technology of using naturally occurring bacteria in oil wells and producing reservoirs. Commercial applications of this microbial technology have increased oil and gas producing rates and recoveries, providing substantial added commercial value to customers of the Company.

The Company’s petroleum technology was developed and proved in the U.S., and pilot projects have been successfully completed in China, Argentina, Indonesia, and Former Soviet Union oilfields. Its technology is based upon cultivating nature’s beneficial microbes and introducing these bacteria into petroleum reservoirs through production and injection wells. The porous medium of reservoir rock is a natural habitat. Microbes colonize and migrate outward, living at oil-water interfaces in the water. In many oil-producing reservoirs much of the water is attached to rock and does not move. As oil production percolates through the microbe colony, heavy oils are reduced into thinner, less viscous components. The metabolic process produces beneficial surfactants. Oil flow and recovery are increased.

The Company acquired, by merger, Advanced Microbial Systems, Inc., a Minnesota corporation ("AMS"), in 2000. AMS is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. AMS has developed proprietary technology that allows large concentrations of beneficial microbes to be used economically in crop production, water treatment and bioremediation. AMS uses a novel bioprocess technology to produce probiotic microorganisms. AMS has isolated problem-solving microbes from natural sources that enhance soil fertility and plant growth, combat pests, and clean polluted water in aquaculture ponds, thereby yielding more fish and shrimp and clean oil spills and other environmental pollution. AMS agriculture products are commercially proven through laboratory and worldwide field trials. Extensive field tests resulted in increased plant health and vigor, increased crop yields and reduced pest and disease problems.

Microbes, Inc., a U.S. industrial biotechnology company, was founded in 1988 to enhance and reduce the cost of producing oil and gas. Microbes, Inc. is the founder and developer of Migration Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MMEOR), a process to increase petroleum production by injecting environmentally safe microorganisms into producing oil and gas reservoirs. The company developed and applied this technology of using naturally occurring bacteria in oil wells and producing reservoirs. Commercial applications of this microbial technology has increased oil and gas producing rates and recoveries, providing substantial added commercial value to our customers.

Microbes Bridges Biotechnology to Agricultural and Aquacultural Uses

Microbes, Inc. has also developed proprietary technology that allows large concentrations of beneficial microbes to be used economically in crop production, water treatment and bioremediation. The company uses a novel bioprocess technology to produce probiotic microorganisms. The company has isolated problem-solving microbes from natural sources that enhance soil fertility and plant growth, combat pests, and clean polluted water in aquaculture ponds, thereby yielding more fish and shrimp and clean oil spills and other environmental pollution. The company’s agriculture products are commercially proven through laboratory and worldwide field trials. Extensive field tests resulted in increased plant health and vigor, increased crop yields and reduced pest and disease problems.

Today, Microbes is a major supplier of microbial technology and products to both the global petroleum and agriculture industries. Through our unique position in the market place, we are developing alliances and partnerships with national oil companies and major agriculture distributors and farms.

Microbes priority markets are Asian Pacific, Latin America and former Soviet Union countries. Plans are to take advantage of the company’s proprietary biotechnology in petroleum and agriculture to expand sales of products and services and to acquire equity through partnerships with oil and gas producing companies and large agriculture farms. The company’s role in partnerships is to supply investment, technology, biotech products and management. The customer’s role is to supply labor in oilfields or agriculture fields, and each share in production.

"BACTERIA – An Industrial Force"

"Bacteria, master chemists, are becoming an industrial force thanks to advances in biotechnology." In the August, 1993 issue of National Geographic, Thomas Y. Canby with photographs by Charles O'Rear describes these tiny, single-cell workhorses. As nature’s most diverse life-form, bacteria have adapted to almost every environment. Bacteria are structurally the simplest form of microbes, lacking the cell nucleus. Most reproduce by dividing. While one microbe in a thousand is a pathogen, the rest neither we nor the planet could live without. They make what we want, and get rid of what we don’t want.

Microbes ability to break down both natural and manmade matter is why the world is looking at them for industrial uses. Environmental uses include bioremediation of gasoline contaminated groundwater and soil clean-up at a petrochemical Superfund site. The EPA proved microbes’ effectiveness in cleaning up aviation fuel that had leaked into groundwater at a Coast Guard station in Traverse City, Michigan. Technology is being further developed to use microbes on creosote contamination and for oil spill clean-up.

Microbes can break down chemicals from which they derive no nourishment or other clear benefit—co-metabolism. Though chemicals like PCBs and TCE were designed so their molecules would resist microbial attack. Yet in nature bacteria crack them. To work their magic microbes secrete enzymes that function in manners not completely understood. But co-metabolism is used commercially including making soy sauce and enzyme detergents.

Microbes play a growing role in wringing oil from faltering wells. The opportunity is enormous. In U.S. oil fields an estimated 50 billion barrels await improved recovery technique. Hundreds of wells are stimulated yearly using microbes.