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HYDROCARBON DYNAMICS LIMITED AGM Information 2023

May 17, 2023

65041_rns_2023-05-17_fc313369-6b56-4ed6-95ce-17d91088f84c.pdf

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AGM Presentation

May 2023

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Disclaimer
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Disclaimer, Forward Looking Statements and Competent Person Statement

This presentation has been prepared by Hydrocarbon Dynamics Limited ("HCD"). It should not be considered as an offer or invitation to subscribe for or purchase shares in HCD.

This presentation contains forward-looking statements including those identified by the use of forward-looking terminology containing such word as 'believes', 'may', 'will', 'estimates', 'continue', 'anticipates', 'intends', 'expects, 'should', 'schedule', 'program', 'potential' or the negatives thereof and words of similar import. HCD cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from them. The forward looking statements are expressly subject to this caution. To the maximum extent permitted by law, HCD makes no representation or warranty (express or implied) about them and expresses no opinion or any other form of assurance regarding them occurring.

In addition, there are a number of risks, both specific to HCD and of a general nature, which may affect the future operating and financial performance of HCD and the value of an investment in HCD including but not limited to economic conditions, stock market fluctuations, oil demand and price movements, regulatory risks, operational risks, environmental risks, and reliance on key personnel.

Accordingly, this presentation does not purport to contain all information which may be required in order to make an informed assessment of HCD's prospects. You should conduct your own investigation, perform your own analysis, and seek your own advice from your professional advisor before making any investment decision.

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Corporate Summary
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ASX listed - Energy focused

Board & Management
Stephen Mitchell Non-Executive Chairman
Bill Tarantino CEO - Chemical Division
Nick Castellano Executive Director
Ray Shorrocks Non-Executive Director
Andrew Seaton Non-Executive Director
Julie Edwards Company Secretary & CFO
Capital Structure
Cash: $1,035,000 (31 March 2023)
Rights Issue Cash: $750,000
Share Price: $0.01
Issued Capital: 649.7m Shares (including Rights Issue New Shares)
62.6m Options exercisable @ 2 cents expiring 12 May 2025
Market Capital: $6.5 million
Shareholder Summary
S Mitchell 14.7%
S McGregor Super Fund 8%
Lowell Resources Fund 4.5%
Chag Pty Ltd 3.1%
HSBC 2.6%
Yavern Creek Holdings Pty Ltd 2.3%
Top 20 Holders 50%

Recent Highlights

  • Santos repeat business and Canadian trial converted to repeat business

  • North Sea purchase order with large national European company

  • Gulf of Mexico trial on two oil platforms

  • First United Arab Emirates order for tank cleaning

  • Numerous field and lab trials underway including with a US super major

  • More distributors and agents added to the network

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Value Creation Strategy
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Our Value Creation Strategy underpins everything we do

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Execute on Strategic Priorities to Market HCD Products and Technology to the Oil Industry Evaluate Additional Energy Technologies for Investment Evaluate Upstream Projects

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PhaseShift™ Technology Platform
Driving value for crude oil production, transmission and storage
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Key Products & Applications:

  • HCD Multi-Flow[] – Improves oil production onshore and offshore by reducing viscosity and mitigating paraffin and asphaltene depositions in production equipment

  • Assur-Flow  – Provides flow assurance for onshore and offshore pipelines by liquefying paraffin and asphaltene depositions. Reduces reliance on traditional solutions of heat, solvents and mechanical pigging

  • Kleen-Flow  – Liquefies oil sludge in transport and storage facilities, transforms the way cleaning operations are undertaken and recovers saleable hydrocarbons from the sludge

  • Bit-Flow  – Heavy crude oil viscosity reduction allowing substantial savings on costs of diluents and chemical treatments

  • Remediate  – Reclamation of oil contaminated soils

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HCD Delivers Value Solutions Across the Oil & Gas Value Chain
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6 1. Wellhead – HCD Multi-Flow 2. Wellbore – Tri-Phase Squeeze 3. Oil Sands/SAGD – Bit-Flow 4. Pipelines – Assur-Flow 5. Tanks/Vessels – Kleen-Flow

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Delivering Value Across Oil & Gas Market Segments
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Production Transmission
Storage
Primary focus Major Focus Flow Assurance Secondary Focus
Remediation & Inhibition currently targeting Gulf of Large individual prospects
Mexico, North Sea, Global
Continuous Operations
Canadian Oil Sands & India
North America & Global
Viscous Oil
Viscous Oil
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Summary of Distributors and Agents
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Signed agent agreement with OOSITA, the business arm of the Distributor ‘Fort Chipewyan Métis Nation’ in April 2023 for Canada. & agent progress Negotiating an agreement with a key distributor in the Gulf of Mexico. Negotiating agreement with an Agent in the North Sea. aligned with our strategy

Negotiating an agreement with a key distributor in the Gulf of Mexico. Negotiating agreement with an Agent in the North Sea.

10 distributors in North America (3 in Canada)

6 International distributors and agents: India; ME; APAC; Egypt; Africa

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Strategic Imperatives
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Right Regions → Right Prospects → Right Sales Network → Right Support Structure

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Align with the ‘Right’ distributors and agents and properly motivate them

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Increase emphasis on direct sales efforts

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Focus on landing trials and leveraging wins

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The ‘Right’ testing for our chemistry, and the necessary chemical registrations & approvals

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The Technology is Working – Field Success Examples
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PROJECT PURPOSE DOSAGE RATE IN FIELD RESULTS/STATUS
Alberta Canada Paraffin remediation and inhibition 250 ppm HCD Multi-Flow Successful trial for $5bn producer in the Cardium formation results lead to award of
chemical treatment business in 2023.
Santos Paraffin remediation and inhibition 250 ppm HCD Multi-Flow Awarded treatment business in 2022 after successful trial. PO received for 2023
season.
Gulf of Mexico Paraffin remediation and inhibition; 250 ppm HCD Multi-Flow injected Mid-size G of M producer. Success to date remediating wax deposition; the
reduce the need for paraffin cutting downhole on gas lift wells customer is reducing the cutting frequency; stated that chemical has freed up a lot
of production time
Oil India (India) Increase Well Production Rates (Tri- 10 drums MF/1 drums SR/10lbs 64% Increase in oil production before Pump Failed for 11-week shutdown (retrial
Phase Squeeze) MicroPhase per Well requested)
Petronas Platform Restore production to 9,000 250 ppm HCD Multi-Flow Pdn resumed for 5 years after 2 yr shut-in with PP reduction and emulsions broken
bopd
Petralis (Texas) Increase Production in 3 wells 5 drums of MF/1 drums SR 7lbs 5-month avg oil production increase 186% /Gas increase of 316%
MicroPhase per Well
China CNPC Diluent Reduction in 1 well 38,000 bopd field @ 2,000ppm Diluent may be reduced by 40%, viscosity by 65%, production increased 22%.
California 1 & 2 1,000 bopd field @ 2,000ppm Diluent requirement reduced by 40% and organic deposition successfully removed
from water pipe
Canada - CNRL Improve Production of waxy oil <200ppm continuous feed 4 wells treated. Production increase @ 150% over 6 months
Utah 1 & 2 Pour Point Reduction 23,000 bopd @ 1,000ppm Pour Point reduced by 14°C (25F). Company taken over
(Newfield)

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Executing on our strategy: ‘Ongoing Business’
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Cooper Basin Australia

  • ➢ Purchase order received for 2023 winter season starting in May.

  • ➢ Opportunity to expand into additional newly drilled wells, should they experience paraffin related issues.

  • Strategy : exploit success to expand to other producers operating in the basin as well as with this producer.

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Western Canada

  • ➢ Successful Cardium formation trial converted to ongoing business for HCD’s distributor in Grande Prairie, Alberta.

  • ➢ Treatment expanded to 15 wells in May. Potential for 100 wells in this field.

  • ➢ Signed agreement with OOSITA, Fort Chipewyan Métis Nation business arm in April 2023 to be an Agent for HCD in Canada.

  • Strategy : exploit success to expand to distributor’s other customers and prospects and into Heavy Oil and the same with 2[nd] Canadian distributor.

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Executing on our strategy: ‘Current Trial Applications’
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Two offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

  • ➢ 1[st] platform – 3-month trial to eliminate the need for quarterly wax cutting.

  • ➢ 2[nd] platform – trial to reduce need for daily wax cutting has been very successful.

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North Dakota Bakken Formation

  • ➢ Very waxy well where incumbent chemistry has limited effect.

  • ➢ Additional opportunity wells in this field ~100.

  • Strategy : success expected to result in expansion with this distributor throughout the region.

  • ➢ Pipeline spur opportunity – a result of positive trials.

  • Strategy : work directly and with a new distributor to target other opportunities in the Gulf resulting from successful trials here.

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Executing on our strategy: ‘Pending Trials’
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North Sea Platform

  • ➢ Waxy crude, severe impacts on production and operations

  • ➢ Chemical paid for and delivered

  • ➢ Work on Cefas trial approval

  • Strategy : use success to expand business with this producer. Use an Agent and Distributor to access similar opportunities in the N. Sea

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UAE Tank Cleaning

  • ➢ Large NOC operating in the UAE

➢ Chemical paid for and delivered

  • ➢ Organizational changes causing delays

Strategy : distributor to utilize success to grow in the ME. Same with 2[nd] distributor

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India Tri-Phase Squeeze

  • ➢ Production enhancement opportunities

  • ➢ Two Purchase Orders received

  • Strategy : use success to springboard prospects with many independents in India

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Executing on our strategy: ‘Current Priorities & Activities’
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Utah’s Uinta Basin

  • ➢ Multiple opportunities in the Uinta Basin for paraffin remediation and control.

  • ➢ HCD received a Purchase Order from a Texas based distributor to trial HCD Multi-Flow in several applications in the Uinta formation.

  • Strategy : after validating its efficacy through positive field trials, our distributor will market HCD technology to other clients in Utah, the Delaware & Permian basin, and Oklahoma.

Bakersfield, California

  • ➢ Paraffin remediation/inhibition and production enhancement prospects in Bakersfield.

  • ➢ A PO for a single well trial is expected soon in a field with ~70 similarly distressed wells.

  • Strategy : distributor to market our technology to California, Rockies, Oklahoma, and Wyoming markets once they validate its effectiveness.

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Executing on our strategy: ‘Current Priorities & Activities’
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Australia Pour Point Opportunity

  • ➢ Direct result of our success in the Cooper Basin

  • ➢ Potential trial to discover if HCD Multi-Flow is a commercially viable option

  • for lowering pour point

US Supermajor Oil & Gas Co. Permian Basin

  • ➢ Positive in-house paraffin control testing led to initial talks with Permian operations and technical group

South Texas, Eagle Ford Shale

  • ➢ HCD’s strategy includes targeting the very waxy crude oil in the Eagle Ford shale using multiple Texas based distributors

  • ➢ Progress Is being made with a large national oil company there

Strategy : distributor and direct sales to exploit trial success

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The Past Year
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Key Takeaways

➢The long process of finding the right distributors and agents and maturing the relationships is starting to pay off. The number of trials is growing, and new ongoing business is starting to rise.

➢HCD has found a credible test procedure, Wax Flow Loop testing, that can be used to screen our chemistry and provide the end users with viable data on the efficacy of HCD chemistry on their specific crude oil.

  • ➢Regional focus is imperative.

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The Year Ahead
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2023 Focus and Path Forward

  • ➢Distributor base – drive & strengthen distributor base focusing on The Right distributors

  • ➢Product screening – utilise wax flow loop testing as the go-to screening for HCD technology for paraffin control.

  • ➢Trials and treatment – focus on winning trials and leveraging the successes with the goal of converting to ongoing business and feeding expansion into key regions.

  • ➢HCD must remain flexible in adapting to the industry and investment climate it finds itself in and will always look for opportunities to enhance shareholder value

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Appendix

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Differentiated Technology To Move Oil
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Viscosity Reduction

  • ➢ The mechanism utilised is entirely different to conventional PPD’s in that PhaseShift technology works by electron sharing with like molecules (wax, asphaltene etc) through molecular repulsion between the aggregated hydrocarbons in long chain molecules

  • ➢ This reduces the Van der Walls attractive forces between the waxes responsible for corresponding molecular attraction

  • ➢ Pour Point Depressants (PPD’s) utilise the polymer-wax interface to halt or hinder wax crystallization -> typically very narrow in their applicability, and challenged by High MW n-paraffins

  • HCD PhaseShift technology can therefore be used to remediate (liquefy) existing deposits as well as prevent (inhibit) the formation of new deposits.

  • ➢ This technology will also reduce crude viscosity chemically and can increase API Gravity.

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Production Facilities- Phoenix, Arizona
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  • ➢ Production & storage facilities in Phoenix Arizona. Also storage facilities in Malaysia

  • ➢ Current capacity is 10,000 drums/year. Could be lifted to 20,000 with additional staff

  • ➢ Simple automation of facility could swiftly bring capacity to 130,000 drums/year (24 hours/day)

  • ➢ Existing stock of ~ 266 drums of HCD Multi-Flow®

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Testing Implications on Dosage Rates
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  • ➢ Tests and trials indicate dosage rates of HCD products for use in pipelines and continuous down-hole applications on viscous crudes are typically between 250 - 750 ppm

  • ➢ Tests and trials indicate dosage rates of HCD products for use in heavy, extra heavy and viscous crudes are in the 1,000 – 2,000 ppm range

  • ➢ Dosage rates will always vary considerably depending on individual applications and oil composition

  • ➢ New product range and pricing to be confirmed before June 30th but indicative cost to producers for baseline product follows:

Multi-Flow Dosage Rates (ppm) 250 500 750 1000 2000
End User Cost/bbl of oil treated (US$)* $0.36 $0.72 $1.08 $1.45 $2.90
  • Based on the North American recommended retail price of HCD standard Multi-Flow. Other MF based products will have different pricing

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