TASMAN RESOURCES NLACN 009 253 187Level 40, Exchange Plaza2 The...

TASMAN RESOURCES NL
ACN 009 253 187
Level 40, Exchange Plaza
2 The Esplanade, Perth, Western Australia 6000
Telephone: (08) 9282 5889 Facsimile: (08) 9282 5866
Website: www.tasmanresources.com.au
Australian Stock Exchange Announcement
Eden Energy Ltd/Brehon Energy plc – Major Chinese Hydrogen Project
18 October 2004
Brehon Energy plc (Brehon) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with
four leading Chinese groups to establish in China a Project to replace 10,000 diesel buses in
Beijing with very low emission Hythane® powered buses. These buses will burn Hythane®, a
US patented mixture of hydrogen in natural gas, which Brehon acquired from Hydrogen
Components Inc. in April 2004.
Tasman Resources NL (Tasman), through its subsidiary Eden Energy Ltd (Eden) is currently
acquiring a 20% interest in Brehon and a 49% interest in Brehon Far East Pty Ltd, through which
the Project will be under taken.
The Hythane® technology was developed by Frank Lynch, owner of Hydrogen Components Inc,
starting in the 1980s. Since then it has been successfully demonstrated in Denver (Colorado) in
1991, Erie (Pennsylvania) in 1993, in Montreal (Quebec) in 1995, and Coachella Valley
California in 2003. Hythane® involves the addition of a small percentage of hydrogen (usually
about 7% by energy) to natural gas to create a highly efficient very low emission vehicle fuel.
Hythane® reduces NOx emissions by 95%, relative to diesel and significantly reduces CO2.
Hythane® technology builds upon existing Natural Gas (CNG) infrastructure and equipment, is
fully developed, and available for immediate rollout.
The Project, which anticipates to be the first in a series to be undertaken in many major cities in
China, will dramatically reduce atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in Beijing.
It will be the world’s first rollout of hydrogen as a vehicle fuel on a major scale.