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OriginOil Hits Frac Milestone at California Well Site
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OriginOil Inc. has reported that its CLEAN-FRAC™ water treatment system for the oil and gas industry successfully completed its first field testing on produced water at an oil well in Lost Hills near Bakersfield, California.
The field trials demonstrated that the process removes almost all organics, suspended solids and bacteria from produced water, demonstrating the potential impact of OriginOil’s technology in enabling oil operators to extract more petroleum from process water and reduce fresh water use. A video documenting the success of OriginOil’s Mobile Lab is available online.
Les Cufaude and Dale Hankins of Pacific Coast Exploration hosted the testing and were surprised that the system was able to recover as much oil from the water as it did. Until now, they had believed that…
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