Bakken Laboratory -- New Opportunity: Turning Oily Waste Water into Potable Water

A huge "thank you" to Don for alerting me to this story.

If this works, and is economical, this could be huge. If it works, this could be one of the biggest stories of the year.

Link here.

A team of scientists and oil business executives from Canada and New Mexico have performed a West Texas miracle.

Instead of turning water into wine, these four men have turned an oil field waste by-product into fresh, potable water at a dusty oil lease south of Clyde Lake in Callahan County.

The newly formed Texas Sands Resources partnership — made up of Chris Tesarski, the CEO of Canadian oil company Sandbox Energy which owns the oil lease; Paul Fairchild of Nu-H20 from Socorro, N.M.; and J.C. and Ian Ireland of Erin Consulting of Saskatchewan — have developed a process for turning that expensive waste product into useful, clean water.

As mentioned in an earlier post, a recurring story/theme this year in the Bakken boom will be waste management.