A state legislator who is running for an Oklahoma Corporation Commission seat and the Ponca Nation Council will hold an Oil and Gas Industry Forum Tuesday exploring a way to reduce wastewater injection and the number of earthquakes in the state.
The forum will be held at the State Capitol and focus on the efforts of Fairmont Brine Processing, a company that uses evaporation and crystallization to recycle wastewater.
Fairmont Brine’s President, Brian Kalt, will be a keynote speaker at the forum to be held in the chamber of the State House from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m.
“Oklahoma policy makers should always provide opportunities to advance issues important to the general public,” said Rep. Morrissette. “In this case, my focus for the upcoming forum is doubly important, as the public and our state’s leading industry have been inadvertently impacted by dangerous and costly injection well earthquakes.”
Kalt calls his patented multi-effect evaporation and crystallization process an “alternative to the technologically enhanced seismic activity that comes along with deep well injection.”
He said the mission “is to recycle all the flow back and produced fluids from the energy extraction process.” The company maintains that the process produces sodium chloride r ock salt that be used for de-winterizing and distilled water that can be used in future drilling and hydraulic-fracturing operations.
“We view ourselves as partners with our customers, our employees, our community and most importantly, our environment.”