Sionix To Expand Multi-Year Project in the Williston Basin

Link here to PennEnergy.

Sionix will expand their multi-year project to treat drilling fluids in the Williston Basin. The expansion will result in an effluent significantly cleaner than required under the original treatment conditions, according to a spokesman. According to the press release, recovery and reuse constitutes a significant economic benefit to operators/drillers in the Williston Basin as well as in other drilling operations in all of the shale formations in the continental United States.

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. 

Mobile Water Treatment System to the Bakken - Sionix

From a message board:

Sionix Corporation (OTCBB: SINX) ("Sionix" or the "Company"), a designer of patented water treatment systems, announced today that it has shipped its Mobile Water Treatment System (MWTS) to a staging area in North Dakota under the Water Treatment Agreement with McFall Incorporated announced on March 5, 2012. Designed to treat up to 9,600 barrels per day of contaminated drilling fluids at a drilling site, this MWTS will be deployed to a specific drilling rig and commence treatment operations in early May 2012. When treatment operations commence, further announcements will be made.

This is very interesting. Just the other day someone asked me what the next "big thing" would be in the Bakken for investors. I said "waste management."  

I know nothing more than what is posted above.