Wescorp Updates 30-Day Operation of H2OmaxxWescorp Updates 30-Day Operation of H2Omaxx Oil-Water Separation Technology at Cancen Oil
New Data Expands H2Omaxx Performance Range
-- Effectively Reducing 40+% Contaminated Hydrocarbon Waste Water to
Less than 12 Parts Per Million
Sep. 20, 2010 (Business Wire) -- Wescorp Energy Inc. (OTCBB: WSCE), aclean water technology company focused on implementing its low-costsolutions into several markets including the oil & gas and marineindustries, provided an update today that the Company’s H2Omaxxoil-water separation unit has completed its initial 30-day commercialoperations at Cancen Oil Canada Corporation’s New Sarepta facility. TheCompany has confirmed new operating capabilities for the H2Omaxx clean water technology; cleaning 40+% contaminated hydrocarbon waste water to less than 12 ppm oil.
Overview of 30 day operation – summary:
- In July, Wescorp commenced a 30-day continuous commercial test of H2Omaxx to define a number of operating parameters, including heat requirements and treatment time.
- The unit ran successfully and reliably, meeting Cancen’s operational needs by treating approximately 3,500 barrels of contaminated fluid.
- Unexpectedly, the fluid received was from oil sands operations, and was heavily contaminated with hydrocarbons. The oil/water mixture was in the range of 10-40% plus oil - contaminated. The H2Omaxx has historically treated oil/water mixture in the 3-5% range.
- The H2Omaxx successfully treated the 40/60 mixture by cycling the fluid through the treatment process a number of times, rather than a single pass through which is normal for less contaminated fluid.
- The batch treatment of the mixture achieved Cancen’s standards for fluid disposal in its disposal well. While Wescorp was subject to the operational pressures of Cancen’s site, Wescorp was permitted to undertake a multi-cycle treatment process of one tank of heavily contaminated fluid, under conditions which permit replication, in order to verify the operating range of the H2Omaxx.
- Inlet and post-treatment outlet samples were taken. Lab results from ALS Laboratory Group establish that the H2Omaxx successfully received fluids contaminated at 40%+ (by volume) level, and discharged a cleaned fluid at less than 12 ppm hydrocarbons.
- Treatment of this level of hydrocarbon contamination without extensive heat, chemicals or filters is, in Management’s judgment, exceptional.
- Wescorp believes that the next stage of testing should focus on defining what level of contamination requires only one treatment cycle, and what level of contamination requires repeated treatment cycles, also known as batch treatment.
“This 30-day operating periodis important for several reasons,” states Robert G. Power, ExecutiveChairman of Wescorp. “First, Wescorp’s H2Omaxx technology haspassed the research stage and we are now focusing on scalability andthe range of hydrocarbon contamination to treat. Second, we have againproved the technology’s operational reliability – a critical issue withmany competing technologies.
“Third, we learned that the H2Omaxxcan successfully treat fluids with a dramatically higher percentage ofcontaminates than historically treated. We believe that this expandedupper treatment range opens up significant new market potential.
“We caution readers that these results now need to be replicated inadditional operating scenarios. The reality of oil field waste fluidtreatments is that there is a wide range of hydrocarbon contaminationand related chemical contamination. Further testing is required.However, these results demonstrate H2Omaxx’s highly effectiveability to clean some of the most contaminated waste in the oilindustry without the use of filters, chemicals or heat.”
H2OmaxxTechnology
- H2Omaxx has been proven to be a safe, effective, economical and environmentally friendly process for cleaning and separating oil and solids from water.
- Using Wescorp’s nano-aeration technology, previous independent test results have shown the H2Omaxx technology to reduce the oil content in produced water to less than 10 parts per million without the use of chemicals, filters or heat.
- Use of H2Omaxx provides important cost benefits to the operator when compared with the traditional multi-technology approach to remediate water.
- H2Omaxx can lower both the operator’s capital costs and operating costs significantly. In addition, new revenues are created by the capture of barrels of oil that would otherwise be disposed.
- The H2Omaxx technology has been designed to produce the H2Omaxx unit in a variety of sizes, including a mobile unit and commercial units (2,500, 10,000 and 65,000 barrels-per-day).
10,000 BPD Mobile Unit
Wescorp previously announced that it will be taking delivery of a new 10,000 barrel-per-day H2Omaxx unit, designed and built by K-Line Trailers Ltd.(www.klinetrailers.com).Because delivery of a component is not expected to be received byK-Line until mid October, Wescorp presently expects to receive thecompleted unit by early November. After completion of the commissioningphase, the mobile unit, which is designed to be rapidly transported toremote locations, will be available to be marketed for potentialcustomer sites, initially in Western Canada. Wescorp also intends tomarket the unit’s services in the Gulf of Mexico area.
Themobile, 10,000 barrel-per-day unit is designed to be placed swiftly onsites for the purposes of demonstrating the technology and for use forshort-term commercial operations. The unit will have its own storage,separation and containment tanks, micro-aeration generators, andfirmware and computer automation technology to allow water remediationwith minimal human supervision.
About Wescorp
Wescorp is a clean water technology company focused on implementing itshighly effective yet low-cost solutions into the oil and gas productionindustry. Please visit our website at www.wescorpenergy.com.