Siemens to Provide Hydro Recovery with Wastewater Reuse System

Siemens Water Technologies is to supply Hydro Recovery with a wastewater treatment system to treat natural gas hydraulic fracturing wastewater from Marcellus Shale drilling in the US.

The system will also treat the produced water of operating wells in Tioga and surrounding counties in north-east Pennsylvania.

The treatment system will be part of a new wastewater treatment plant in Tioga and will include continuous precipitation and sludge dewatering.

The wastewater will be treated using the Siemens system to produce a hydraulic stimulation fluid for reuse, reducing demand on fresh water sources.

The plant will treat 288,000 gallons per day (1,090m³ per day) of water generated from the drilling of natural gas wells and is scheduled to come online in April 2011.