HOUSTON, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SulphCo®, Inc. (Amex: SUF - News; the "Company") announced today that testing will resume this week in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates on a variety of crude feedstocks. The Company also reported that it has completed the installation of a 15,000 bpd skid, been issued all necessary permits and reached agreement with its European partner authorizing the resumption of testing on October 29th.

Dr. Larry Ryan, CEO of SulphCo, provided an update of events since the September 6th investor conference call. "Our last round of testing in Fujairah had to be curtailed due to transportation issues unrelated to our process equipment, but we were nonetheless able to conduct limited test runs on a medium crude (32.9 API, 1.6% sulphur by content) employing our latest probe design. The results were significant; up to a 47% reduction in sulphur by content on successive test runs, as compared to 17% under the same test conditions utilizing the earlier Series II probe design."

"In the days ahead, we look forward to the resumption of testing, both in Fujairah and Europe," said Dr. Ryan, "and in particular the ability at our European installation to conduct continuous runs of heavy crude at design flow rates under a full range of test conditions. Over time, we believe that this platform will enable us to accumulate the data necessary for process optimization for the heavy crude being testing."