Restructuring

Separation of GARP^® Artificial Lift Technology Operations

During the quarter ended December 31, 2015, we conducted a strategic review of our GARP^® artificial lift technology operations and consummated a plan to separate and transfer these operations to a new entity controlled by the inventor of the technology, our former Senior Vice President of Operations, and certain former employees of the Company. We invested $108,750 in common and preferred stock of the new entity, WLI. We own 17.5% of WLI and our former employees that previously had primary responsibility for our GARP^® operations own the balance of the common stock. Our preferred stock is convertible at our option into common stock which would result in our ownership of 42.5% of WLI, based on the current capital structure of WLI. The company has no contractual exposure to losses of WLI, nor does it have any obligation or agreement to provide additional funding or support to WLI if it is needed. In connection with this transaction, three employees of the Company were terminated. We accrued a restructuring charge based on agreements with the employees covering salary and benefit continuation and an acceleration of vesting of equity awards in exchange for release from liabilities and other provisions including agreements not to compete. At December 31, 2015, we recorded a personnel restructuring charge of $688,205 consisting of $59,339 in stock-based compensation and $628,866 of accrued separation and benefits expense. Our current estimate of remaining restructuring obligations as of June 30, 2016 is as follows:



Type of Cost	December 31, 2015		Payments			Adjustments to Cost		June 30, 2016
Salary expense	$	530,387	$	(176,796	)	$	—	$	353,591
Payroll taxes and benefits expense	98,479		(32,582		)	—		65,897
Accrued liability for restructuring costs	$	628,866	$	(209,378	)	$	—	$	419,488

Other Restructuring Impairments

Also in connection with the December 2015 separation of GARP^®, we and WLI entered into an agreement under which we transferred our technology assets, including our patents and trademarks, to WLI in exchange for a perpetual royalty of 5% on all future gross revenues associated with the GARP^® technology. We reduced the carrying value of these exchanged technology assets to our estimate of their expected discounted net present value, which was $108,512. This estimate was based on the recent financial results from our artificial lift technology operations and the current depressed state of the oil and gas industry and the potential upside cases were assigned relatively low probabilities for accounting purposes. This resulted in an impairment charge of $469,395. In addition, we transferred certain inventory and minor fixed assets to WLI which had no further use in our operations and were deemed to have negligible market or salvage value. This resulted in impairments of $92,901 to equipment inventory and $6,932 to fixed assets, respectively. These impairments total $569,228 and are included in restructuring charges.

Restructuring of Oil and Gas Operations

On November 1, 2013, we undertook an initiative to refocus our business that resulted in an adjustment of our workforce with less emphasis on engineering and greater emphasis on sales and marketing. In exchange for severance and non-compete agreements with the terminated employees, we recorded a restructuring charge of $1,332,186 representing $376,365 of stock-based compensation from the accelerated vesting of equity awards and $955,821 of estimated severance compensation and benefits to be paid during the twelve months ended December 31, 2014. All of the Company's obligations under these agreements had been fulfilled at December 31, 2014, extinguishing the liability. Our disposition of the accrued restructuring charges is reflected in the following schedule:



Type of Cost	Balance at December 31, 2013		Payments			Adjustment to Cost			June 30, 2015
Salary expense	$	615,721	$	(615,721	)	$	—		$	—
Incentive compensation costs	185,525		(185,525		)	—			—
Payroll taxes and benefits expense	154,575		(110,144		)	(44,431		)	—
Accrued liability for restructuring costs	$	955,821	$	(911,390	)	$	(44,431	)	$	—