Company overview
Water management challenges are escalating with the development of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs utilizing hydraulic fracturing technologies. In certain geographic areas the total cost of handling water, from sourcing through disposal, is challenging the economic viability of future field development. 212 Resources offers proprietary technology providing an economic solution to many of these water management challenges through our patented mechanical vapor recompression process and associated other Intellectual Property.
Our process produces two effluent streams: clean distilled water and highly concentrated brine. What differentiates our process is the ability to concentrate the brine to near saturation levels greatly reducing disposal volumes and maximizing the volume of clean water for recycling and/or discharge. In the Marcellus Shale, produced water and frac’ flowback waters contain very high concentrations of salts (TDS), often reaching 150,000+ ppm. Our design allows concentrating to 300,000+ ppm TDS thereby effectively reducing the waste stream by 50%. For comparison purposes seawater is approximately 33,000 ppm.
Fluids returning to surface from frac’ing operations and from normal production activities vary widely in their consistency of dissolved solids and other elements. These oscillations in water quality cause significant operational issues with many water treatment processes. 212 Resources’ system is designed to handle these undulations in constituents without additional and/or expensive front end filtration systems therefore allowing operation at very economic cost points to the industry.
Our “POD” is designed for both mobile and permanent applications. Being mobile allows our operation to be in close proximity to actual drilling and completion activities greatly reducing costs associated with water transportation, associated risks and ancillary expenses such as road maintenance. Permanent applications will provide opportunities for beneficial industrial use of the concentrated brine again reducing the total cost of water management to the industry.
212 Resources further differentiates itself with an integrated steam stripper system which is designed to remove VOC’s and BTEX components. We have successfully operated under two stringent permits. In Wyoming, 212 Resources has operated successfully the past four years processing 4000 BBLs per day of frac’ flowback and produced water for use in drilling and completion activities. We operate under BLM regulations requiring methanol concentrations significantly lower than EPA drinking water standards: 7 ppm vs 200 ppm. Our Colorado operation processed frac’ flowback and produced water for discharge into a class one trout stream on the western slope. In this case we had to re-mineralize the clean effluent to meet both sodium absorption rate (SAR) requirements and whole effluent toxicity (WET) criteria.
Escalating costs associated with transporting waste water and associated disposal well injection rates are negatively impacting current and future development activity in Unconventional Gas and oil fields. We look forward to offering solutions which lower our clients’ water management costs. This will allow continued development of our critical Unconventional Gas and Oil resources and the associated favorable economic and environmental impacts to both the local economies and our country at large.
H2Oil Disposal and Recovery Services is focused on managing crude oil tank bottoms, high BS&W crude oil and other E&P liquid waste. Our plant is strategically located in Andrews, TX, in the heart of the Permian Basin.
Our versatile process facility also receives fluid from oil field spills, heater-treater residuals, pond skimmings, and high solids flowback water on a 24/7 basis. All materials we receive are contained in enclosed tanks.
Our H2Oil service package offers Producers and Haulers exceptional value and cost savings by providing:
- Disposal of tank bottoms, oil field spills, heater-treater residuals, pond skimmings and high solids flowback water, and other liquid wastes
- Vacuum truck washouts performed by H2Oil crew
- Fast truck in/out turnaround service
- 24/7 year round operation
- Purchase of skim oil, lease slop oil, off-spec crude oil
- Testing onsite
- Transportation
- Plant design / build / operate at customer location
A unique aspect of our service includes truck washouts performed by our H2Oil crew, rather than the driver, for safer and quicker truck turnarounds. Truck washouts are done year round, 24/7, regardless of weather conditions. We use brine water, fresh water or hot water as requested by the hauler.
H2Oil is the leading disposal company in the Permian Basin. We support over 170 transportation companies and more than 600 producers.
