OriginOil to roll out water cleansing technology

OriginOil has announced the commercial roll out of its oil and wastewater clean-up systems to be manufactured by Clean Water Technology (CWT) in California, US.

Water, wastewater and storm water management company PACE will assist OriginOil in the engineering of the first commercial units.

Expected to process a barrel of petroleum-contaminated ‘frac flowback’ water per minute, the system can produce 60,000 gallons of clean water per day.

CWT will improve the time in which the systems reach the market by building the equipment into CWT’s existing wastewater treatment units.

OriginOil CEO Riggs Eckelberry said at this phase, CWT represents what OriginOil needs in a manufacturer for the rollout and commercialisation of this technology.

"When we had to scale up fast for our Australian algae harvesting pilot program, CWT delivered," Eckelberry added.

OriginOil recently announced the signing of a MoU with California-based PACE to collaborate with oil field operators in Texas to improve petroleum recovery and water cleaning for re-use at well sites, using a process originally developed for algae harvesting.

Recent third party testing has shown that OriginOil’s patent-pending process separated 98% of hydrocarbons from a sample of oil well frac flowback water.