Real-world perspectives

With Permian electricity demand growing at nearly 20% per annum (source: Rystad Energy article attached), the oil/gas sector faces possible electricity shortages and at least fast rising prices. This again underscores a key advantage for EcoVAP: its biomimicry technology uses practically no energy compared sprayers/misters, reverse osmosis and most water treatment, or high pressure pumps…

There is “collision course” of more mining needed in US vs. the notorious lack of innovation in the mining sector, and with “water management” being the biggest need for innovation.

While Indonesia’s decision to cancel a high-risk mine permit (reflecting wet tailing storage in a high seismicity risk area) is laudable, EcoVAP can create a win-win by eliminating the water, thus practically eliminating the need for a wet TSF.

Over the past five years, the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) has put increasing restrictions on deep well wastewater injection due to earthquake incidences, so oil/gas producers began injecting more into shallow formations.

Highlighting two articles (of many), one for the EU and one for the US, that highlight decades-outdated wastewater environmental standards in industrial sectors such as mining and oil/gas.

A big shout out to the EcoVAP E&C team for another on-time full-scale deployment of two Evaporation Matrices™ in the Permian despite prevailing 60mph winds….

Disappointingly, miner’s water recycling rates have flattened, if not fallen, since 2021. EcoVAP is finalizing a new technology to help with water purification and reuse…

This Linked In article makes an important distinction between the much more visible “catastrophic” failures of Tailings Storage Facilities (“TSFs”) vs. the much more common “chronic” failures of seepage, leaks, erosion, etc., particularly of the inactive and abandoned TSFs. read more…

While most of the environmental focus on oil/gas produced water disposal is on seismicity, the less talked about risk is the potential to contaminate freshwater drinking supplies. Although not as common or noticeable as earthquakes, the damage of contaminating an underground freshwater aquifer is much more long lasting, possibly permanent.