"We've been planning for our production start-up in Q1 2013 for over a year and a half now, and everyone on the MCW team is extremely excited about getting our extraction plant up and running," stated Vladimir Podlipskiy, MCW's Chief Technology Officer. He added, "Once we've proven our proprietary extraction process here in Utah, we will be well on our way to becoming America's first environmentally-friendly oil sands extraction project."