On the philosophy that led to the transition from CTI to Wescorp: "The petroleum industry had gone through a major downsizing and was outsourcing a lot of the things they had been doing internally in the past. We could see there would be far fewer people in the industry trying to do a lot more, especially in areas like the environment and unconventional oil and gas where they no longer had resident knowledge. We knew we could fill those gaps."

On the earliest discussions with Flowstar: "We were talking to the owners of (Flowstar) about some environmental technologies. After we finished our due diligence on this particular project, we found the technology was not well enough developed. The owners then talked about another technology which was their flow meters. That obviously did interest us because we could see the potential. It could not only solve industry problems but also make money for Wescorp."

On his association with Ellycrack: "I spent quite a bit of time with the Ellycrack people over in Norway. We tore their unit apart completely. All we had seen was this black box where heavy oil went in one end and light oil came out the other. After I found out what was inside that box, we decided to get heavily involved, and we went from an option to buy a license to signing a memorandum of understanding to being a 50-50 partner. We felt we could add a lot to the raw invention on the research side. We felt we could develop it into something an oil company would be interested in."