E3 to license OriginOil’s EWS water cleanup process

Industrial technologies acquirer and integrator E3 Services and Solutions has agreed to license OriginOil’s electro water separation (EWS) process.

EWS technology extracts organic contaminants from large quantities of water for the oil and gas, industrial, and agricultural sectors.

E3 Services and Solutions CEO Mark Skoda said the company is bringing together a number of technologies that are focused on the water matrix.

"Essential to this strategy is finding best-in-breed technologies, acquiring them and deploying services around those same technologies on a global basis," Skoda said.

OriginOil CEO Riggs Eckelberry said E3 is a dynamic technology integrator, which shares OriginOil’s vision to advance innovative solutions commercially.

"We plan to partner with their team in every step of the process, to roll out products and services in the frack and industrial water reclamation spaces, as well as in our clean tech business," Eckelberry said.

According to OriginOil, the technology can be helpful in delivering water at a range of purity levels specified by customers. This is done by pairing it with downstream ‘polishing’ technologies.

Going forward, E3 intends to develop and commercialise key technologies from OriginOil for oil and gas water reclamation, aquaculture and feed-stock production.