{"id":312198,"date":"2023-04-21T07:05:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T11:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/?p=312198"},"modified":"2023-04-21T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:46:10","slug":"extracting-value-from-waste-a-winning-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/resource\/2023\/04\/extracting-value-from-waste-a-winning-business-model","title":{"rendered":"Extracting value from waste a winning business model"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mountains of wet and sloppy sludge churned up from drilling for oil in Alberta are a gold mine for an innovative and unique enterprise.<\/p>\n
Recovery Energy Services, headquartered in Calgary with a facility near Lodgepole, between Calgary and Edmonton, is proving the adage that sustainable practice can not only be environmentally beneficial, it can also be profitable.<\/p>\n
Recovery Energy uses their patented version of wastewater management technology to recover the base oil used in drilling fluid which lubricates the shafts at an oil well.<\/p>\n
When a drill drives through the ground it throws up a mixture of mud containing the drilling fluid with a mix of base oil, brine, emulsifiers and other chemicals.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou might get 500 tonnes of mud which you would take to landfill,\u201d says Stan Ross, founder and CEO of Recovery Energy. \u201cBut it\u2019s the consistency of wet cement, so they add 125 tonnes of sawdust to make it more like horse manure which you can then take to the landfill.\u201d<\/p>\n
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