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Two California Startups Team Up to Challenge Halliburton’s Costs for Cleaning Produced Water and Frack Water
OriginOil, Inc. (OTCBB: OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough energy production process for the oil and algae industries, teamed up with its first licensee, PACE spinoff PearlH2O, to challenge industry giant Halliburton’s published costs for cleaning flowback water for reuse in wells. “Halliburton reported on its cost to operate their CleanWave system in the Haynesville shale in ...
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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 Strengthens Focus on Frack Water Cleanup; Launches Licensing Group to Accelerate Commercialization in Secondary Markets
OriginOil, Inc. (OTC/BB: OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough energy production and water decontamination process for the oil and algae industries, announced today it has launched a separate licensing group to address the growing number of potential commercial applications for its Solids out of SolutionTM technology outside the oil and gas industry. By licensing these secondary market ...
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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 Launches OriginClear Product Line For Petro and Waste Water Cleanup
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 its OriginClear™ product line for all waste water treatment, including oil and gas water cleanup. The new product line will incorporate and fully replace the company’s earlier ...
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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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SludgeGuard Advanced Industrial Bulk Stabilizer
Guardian Environmental Technologies is pleased to announce the development of a highly cost effective and efficient bulk waste stabilizer called "SludgeGuard". industrial sludge: Definition: Concentrated, semi-liquid waste left after treatment of industrial water or wastewater containing some elements of hydrocarbons, including operations from gas and oil drilling, general industrial waste and ...
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EPA: No Widespread Harm to drinking Water from Fracking
Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday in a report that also warned of potential contamination of water supplies if safeguards are not maintained. A draft study issued by the agency found specific instances where poorly constructed drilling wells or improper ...
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EPA: No Widespread Harm to drinking Water from Fracking
Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday in a report that also warned of potential contamination of water supplies if safeguards are not maintained. A draft study issued by the agency found specific instances where poorly constructed drilling wells or improper ...
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Produced Water – Technical and Market Overview
The environmental issues surrounding hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” and the produced water associated with it has become a subject of intense debate within the United States as well as other parts of the world (e.g. the recent fracking Ban in France). Produced Water – Technical and Market Overview is the latest webinar to be announced by BlueTech Tracker. This webinar ...
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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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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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BioLargo Adds Key Technical Team Member and Specialist in Oil and Gas Industry
BioLargo, Inc. (OTCBB: BLGO), creator of patented iodine technologies, today announced that it had added chemist, Richard D. Bickerstaff, PhD, to its team, to assist in the opportunities presented in the oil and gas industry and to provide technical support to the various business development teams within the company. Dr. Bickerstaff received a PhD in chemistry from Carnegie Melon University. His ...
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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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IHS CERAWeek Selects OriginClear as 2016 Energy Innovation Pioneer
OriginClear Inc. (OTC/QB: OOIL), a leading provider of water treatment solutions, has been named an Energy Innovation Pioneer by IHS, the leading source for insight, analytics and expertise in critical areas that shape today’s business landscape. The company will be featured at CERAWeek, a leading energy industry event held in Houston from February 22 – 26, 2016. OriginClear was ...
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Canadian Claiming Fracking Contaminated Water Can Sue Government, Court Rules
A Canadian woman who claims hydraulic fracturing contaminated her groundwater can sue the Alberta government for allegedly failing to properly investigate her claims and fix any issues, a superior court judge ruled. An Alberta court Nov. 7 ruled that Jessica Ernst—who said she could set fire to her natural gas-contaminated water—could proceed with her C$33 million ($29.1 million) ...
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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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Oil companies frack in coastal waters off Calif.
Companies prospecting for oil off California's coast have used hydraulic fracturing on at least a dozen occasions to force open cracks beneath the seabed, and now regulators are investigating whether the practice should require a separate permit and be subject to stricter environmental review. While debate has raged over fracking on land, prompting efforts to ban or severely restrict it, ...
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Utilizing Leadership Commitment and Emergency Response Planning
The unconventional revolution has dramatically transformed the global oil and gas landscape and will continue to do so for the anticipated future, opening a world of new opportunities and associated risk for energy companies striving to increase reserves and shareholder value. Health and safety of workers, as well as environmental concerns, are the most current and prominent challenges facing ...
By Marcus Evans
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