A West Virginia company claims its solution to wastewater or saltwater from oil and gas wells will eventually put injection wells out of business.
Clean Water, LLC based in Charleston, West Virginia is attempting to move from the laboratory to small field operations to expand its operations.
“It absolutely works,” claims engineer and project manager Jeff Gantnier who was touting his fledgling operation at the recent 20th annual Oil and Gas Expo in Oklahoma City. “In the laboratories, absolutely. It’s a chemical process. We use a lot of energy but not nearly as much as these other people t hat just distill the water.”
He told OK Energy Today the process not only removes oil but heavy metals and the result is water that’s too pure because minerals are extracted too. So the minerals have to be returned to the water to make it either drinkable or usable.
“It’s been proven in the labs,” maintained Gantnier. “We’re going to a small production facility before we go to our first production facility. We’re trying to gather interest for the water production facility right now.”
He knows there is skepticism about such claims. They’ve been made previously by others who say they can make saltwater from wells usable for irrigation. In Oklahoma, such a feat might result in fewer wastewater injection wells that many contend have caused the surge in stronger earthquakes.
“It absolutely works?” OK Energy today asked.
“It absolutely works. We’ve proven it in the labor. Taken us six years to get to this point—-taken a lot of work,” answered Gantnier. “Give me six months for a small pilot plant and another 12 to 18 months to the full scale production plant.”
He boasts the patented process, called NGPure will put the injection well industry out of business. And maybe reduce earthquakes too.
Listen to Jerry Bohnen’s interview of Jeff Gantnier.
