New Zero Liquid Discharge Process Enters US Market

Surpasses Treatment Capabilities of Existing Systems for Crude Oil and Natural Gas Producers

MARBLE HILL, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Watervap LLC, a Georgia based company, has introduced a new zero liquid discharge water treatment process into the US market. This cost competitive process, which uses thermal desalination, was invented by the engineers at Watervap and surpasses treatment capabilities of existing systems, used by crude oil and natural gas producers.

“The possibilities for crude oil and natural gas producers is wide scale”

“The possibilities for crude oil and natural gas producers is wide scale,” said Robert Wright, a principal of the privately held company. “This offers producers not only a process for completely treating waste water at the drilling site which has significant reuse opportunities but also produces dry salt solids which have additional monetary value.”

According to Water & Wastes Digest magazine in its March 2010 edition; "Every year, disposal of produced saltwater costs oil and gas producers in the U.S. an average of $1 billion to $6 billion dollars. Approximately five to nine barrels of this saltwater are produced with every barrel of oil. For every MCF of natural gas from the ground or ocean floor, the result is 0.2 to one barrel of saltwater. Cost efficiencies in oil and gas production depend on the economics of saltwater disposal."

This new process is patent pending and has been successfully tested in multiple environments including oil and gas wells, food processing and landfills.

About Watervap

In 2005 Watervap was the winner of the Dow Jones/General Electric ECOnomics Environmental Business Plan Award and is the developer of the unique Brine Disposal Solution (BDS) – a water purification process which reduces salt and other minerals dissolved in water to a dry powder. Optionally, the resultant water vapors can be condensed to achieve fresh water, which has purity virtually equal to distilled water.

The Watervap patented process has wide applicability. It is able to treat concentrates from oil well production water, oil and gas drilling frac water, many industrial effluents, agricultural wastewater, cooling tower blow-down, seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants and other water solutions infused with dissolved minerals.

The result is pure water and dry minerals. Other technologies are either unable to treat them at all, or can only partially do so, or are not economically feasible.

Photos of Watervap’s Brine Disposal Solution (BDS) unit available upon request by emailing [e-mail].