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More oil and gas drillers turn to water recycling
When the rain stopped falling in Texas, the prairie grass yellowed, the soil cracked and oil drillers were confronted with a crisis. After years of easy access to cheap, plentiful water, the land they prized for its vast petroleum wealth was starting to dry up. At first, the drought that took hold a few years ago seemed to threaten the economic boom that arose from hydraulic fracturing, a ...
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Ecologix Environmental Systems Introduces Sustainable Water Treatment Solution for Hydraulic Fracturing
Ecologix Environmental Systems, an Atlanta-based wastewater treatment company specializing in oil and gas, has designed a mobile integrated treatment system (ITS) for hydraulic fracturing that will treat up to 900 gallons per minute of frac flowback water. “Efficient and affordable water treatment is one of the biggest operational challenges with hydro-fracking, ...
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(More oil and gas drillers turn to water recycling
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - When the rain stopped falling in Texas, the prairie grass yellowed, the soil cracked and oil drillers were confronted with a crisis. After years of easy access to cheap, plentiful water, the land they prized for its vast petroleum wealth was starting to dry up. At first, the drought that took hold a few years ago seemed to threaten the economic boom that arose from ...
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OriginClear Successfully Cleans Disaster Recovery Water
OriginClear Inc. (OTC/QB: OOIL), developer of breakthrough water cleanup technology, and its licensee E3 Services and Solutions, LLC (E3), today announced the successful completion of a joint on-site disaster water cleanup project in Oklahoma City. The company released a video and an independent water analysis showcasing successful results. Heavy floodwaters completely invaded Prime Conduit, an ...
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Aqua Terra Water Management and De Nora Join Forces to Offer Economically Viable Produced Water Recycling in the Permian Basin
Aqua Terra Water Management, a leading provider of oilfield water disposal and oilfield waste management with facilities throughout the USA and Canada, and De Nora, a leading designer of safe, innovative, and sustainable water disinfection and oxidation, filtration and electrochlorination solutions, have partnered to provide effective and economic produced water recycling solutions. ...
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STW Resources` Water Reclamation Systems Exceed Re-use Specifications for the Oil & Gas Industry
STW Resources Holding Corp. (OTC QB: STWS), a water reclamation services company, which has been operating a pilot program since March 19th, 2012 in the Permian Basin for eleven oil and gas producers, today announced that the results have met or exceeded the requirements of these producers for reclaiming twenty varying types of oilfield-produced and brackish water for use and re-use in oil and ...
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Coast Guard wants barges to ship fracking water
The U.S. Coast Guard wants to allow barges filled with fracking wastewater to ply the nation's rivers on their way toward disposal. Many environmentalists are horrified, but industry groups say barge transport has its advantages. Now, the wastewater is usually disposed of by truck or rail, which poses more risk for accidents than shipping by barge, according to a government report. And one ...
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OriginOil Launches CLEAN-FRAC PRIME For Standalone Frack Water Treatment
OriginOil Inc. (OTC/QB: OOIL), developer of Electro Water Separation™ (EWS), the high-speed, primarily chemical-free process to clean up large quantities of water, announced today the launch of CLEAN-FRAC™ PRIME, a standalone product designed to provide core water treatment for frac flowback and produced water applications in the oil and gas industry. The launch followed successful ...
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OriginOil to Rename Company ‘OriginClear’
OriginOil Inc. (OTC/QB: OOIL), developer of breakthrough water cleanup technology, announced OriginOil is now named OriginClear Inc., effective immediately. The company ticker symbol, OOIL, will remain unchanged. “As our company has grown, we’ve learned that our technology can serve a vast number of markets in need of innovative water cleanup solutions,” said Riggs Eckelberry, ...
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Toward cheaper water treatment
Original story at MIT News Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” produces a lot of wastewater. Drilling one well requires millions of gallons of water that’s injected into the ground to loosen rocks and release oil. While some is reused, much of the produced water is discarded into deep injection wells, and clean water is purchased again and again. But MIT spinout Gradiant ...
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OriginClear Effectively Eliminates Bacteria and Hydrogen Sulfide in Produced Water Without Chemicals
OriginClear Inc. (OTC/QB: OOIL), a leading provider of water treatment solutions, today announced OriginClear’s proprietary electro-oxidation technology effectively removes 96 percent of bacteria and 97 percent of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from produced water, without chemicals. Results were reported after lab and field testing on produced water from the Eagle Ford shale using ...
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USPTO Grants Core Electro Water Separation Patent to OriginClear
OriginClear Inc. (OTC/QB: OOIL), developer of a breakthrough water cleanup technology, today announced that the United States Patent Office (USPTO) recently granted patent #9,085,745 to OriginClear. The patent incorporated the company’s two-stage electro-coagulation and -flotation process now called Electro Water Separation™ (EWS). The patent title is “Systems and Methods for ...
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2013 California legislative session: Environmental progress in the face of industry roadblocks
The first half of the 2013-2014 California legislative session wrapped-up with hard won public interest environmental bills headed to the Governor’s desk in the areas of wildlife protection, reducing chemical exposure and clean transportation, among others, but more work remains to be done in the second half of the session to protect California from industrial pollution, according to the ...
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OriginOil Hong Kong Signs First Strategic Agreement with Puresino Science & Technology
OriginOil Inc. (OTC/QB: OOIL), developer of Electro Water Separation™ (EWS), the high-speed way to clean up very large quantities of water, today announced that its Hong Kong subsidiary, OriginOil (HK), has partnered with Beijing Puresino Science & Technology, to promote the application of EWS in water treatment for the chemical industry as well as urban wastewater and soil remediation. ...
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OriginClear Enters Commercial Phase in China with First Customers
OriginClear Inc. (OTC/QB: OOIL), developer of breakthrough water cleanup technology, today announced that it has entered the Chinese commercial market with the first commercial customer in Hong Kong and an order for a research system from Nanjing University. Both systems sold in China employ OriginClear’s Electro Water Separation™ process (EWS), a primarily non-chemical system that ...
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OriginClear and E3 Team Up to Offer Disaster Water Recovery to SERVPRO Franchisees Nationwide
OriginClear Inc. (OTC/QB: OOIL), developer of breakthrough water cleanup technology, and OriginClear licensee E3 Services and Solutions, LLC (E3), have teamed up to form a joint venture (JV) intended to offer quick-response disaster water reclamation services to the SERVPRO network of 1800 franchisees in North America. “E3 and OriginClear are already responding to the first job opportunity ...
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Gas drillers draw less water, but concerns linger
The gas drilling industry in Pennsylvania is recycling more and more water and one river basin commission now reports drillers there are drawing less freshwater than in the past. Water use by the natural gas industry in the Susquehanna River Basin peaked at about 3.8 billion gallons in 2011 and that figure declined to about 3.1 billion gallons in 2013, Andrew J. Gavin, deputy executive director ...
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De Nora completes one of the world`s largest produced water recycling projects
Sugar Land, TX, [28 July 2021]: De Nora, a global leader in the delivery of sustainable technologies, is pleased to announce the completion of phase one of its Delaware Basin Wastewater Recycling Project, achieving aspirational produced water rates exceeding 140,000 barrels per day – a total of more than 5 million barrels over a 30-day period. The highest quantity recorded in the ...
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BioLargo`s AOS Filter Poised to Create Windfall for Oil & Gas Producers
When oil was trading at 80 to 100 dollars per barrel, there was plenty of room to pay for the high cost of water management for fracking operations, however, now that the price of oil is falling and flirting with 40 dollars per barrel, profit margins are upside down, and continuing high water management costs are exacerbating widespread industry losses. Water management for fracking operations ...
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OriginOil Signs Initial Agreement to Commercialize Its Oil and Gas Production Water Recovery Process
OriginOil, Inc. (OTC/BB: OOIL), developer of a breakthrough technology to convert algae into renewable crude oil, announced today that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with California-based PACE to collaborate with oil field operators in Texas and elsewhere to improve petroleum recovery and water cleaning for re-use at well sites, using a ...
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