University of Texas at San Antonio Archives - Environment + Energy Leader

Aqua-Pure Expands Fracking Water Treatment

September 10, 2014September 9, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Aqua-Pure Ventures has installed a second Rover unit in the Eagle Ford through FQS Ventures, a joint venture between Aqua-Pure’s Fountain Quail Water Management subsidiary and Select Energy Services. The Rover began recycling produced and flowback water to clean brine last week. The installation was done for a large public ... Read more »

Microsoft, UTSA Sign Data Center Distributed Energy Agreement

April 17, 2014 by Leon Walker

The University of Texas at San Antonio and Microsoft have announced a three-year agreement to research and develop sustainable technologies aimed at making data centers more energy efficient. The multi-disciplinary research will focus on expanding business opportunities for new distributed energy technology that reduces energy consumption and emissions, improve reliability ... Read more »

Omni Treats 140,000 Barrels of Produced Water from Fracking

September 18, 2013November 11, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Since June, Omni Water Solutions has treated more than 140,000 barrels of Marathon Oil’s flowback and produced water in Texas’ Eagle Ford shale to reduce boron and enable re-use of the cleaned water for drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Marathon Oil has been using Omni’s Hippo mobile water treatment ... Read more »

IX Power Develops Produced Water Treatment Technology

August 16, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

IX Power Clean Water has acquired the patent rights to OrganiClear from Los Alamos National Laboratory and begun commercializing the technology to filter and destroy toxic organic hydrocarbons in produced water without creating an additional waste stream. The company estimates the toxic water produced from oil and gas industry operations ... Read more »

Low-Cost Fracking Water Treatment Method in Development

August 13, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are investing $200,000 in new research to develop a low-cost method to treat flow-back water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Over the next year, the researchers will use an inexpensive charcoal product called biochar for ... Read more »

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