OriginOil, Inc, developer of Electro Water Separation (EWS), the high-speed, chemical-free process to clean up large quantities of water, this week announced that Delta, Colorado-based Industrial Systems Inc. (ISI) has sold four industrial systems, powered by OriginOil's EWS, to Synergy Resources for produced water and oily waste treatment in T&T. This milestone represents the first commercial sale by an OriginOil licensee of a system incorporating EWS."We're happy to report that our customer, Synergy Resources Ltd, has just placed an order, with a first milestone payment, for four water treatment units to be used for evaporation pit clean-up in T&T," said CEO and president of Industrial Systems Inc Robert Isom in a release."We're gratified to see that our major investment in EWS-based systems is now showing results with this first sale."
The four units, built for on-site processing of waste oil, are each capable of treating 250 barrels per day of contaminated water. Synergy Resources expects the system to reduce water treatment costs, lessen adverse environmental impacts, decrease freshwater requirements for industrial processes such as steam reinjection for enhanced oil recovery, and help operators comply with environmental regulations."This is the first of many end-user sales by OriginOil licensees," said Bill Charneski, president of OriginOil Oil & Gas. "Licensees like ISI are working hard to integrate our process into their systems and it's gratifying to see the first result from their efforts. 'Powered by OriginOil' is now becoming a reality," he said.
Synergy Resources Limited CEO David Ramjohn said: "We know EWS can help companies meet their legal environmental obligations in an environmentally safe, efficient, effective and low-cost manner. These first four P250 systems will be used to demonstrate the efficacy of EWS for treating produced water, which is a major concern for all upstream operators. "Eventually we plan to offer the services to all the major players in the country, such as the state-owned Petrotrin, bpTT, Repsol, BGTT, BHP Billiton, EOG Resources, Lease Operators Limited and Trinity Exploration."T&T has extensive environmental legislation, including the Water Pollution Rules, implemented in 2001 under the Environmental Management Act, which regulate the quality of effluent from oil and gas facilities and requires treatment of produced water before discharge to the environment.
"Synergy Resources recognised the potential for application of the EWS technology to T&T's oil and gas industry as far back as June 2013 when we first saw the prototype at OriginOil's headquarters in Los Angeles," said Elvis Seelochan, president of Synergy Resources Limited. "We were therefore very pleased to be the only international company present at the launch of the technology at ISI in Delta, Colorado, in May 2014."Seelochan added: "We are confident in the technology's ability to deliver and intend to establish a separate division within Synergy specifically to offer services to the oil and gas companies that need to address the problems associated with treatment and discharge of produced water."