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.

While EcoVAP’s biomimicry technology was originally developed to reduce wastewater disposal costs, we are always happy to reflect on all of its environmental advantages versus other means of disposing of contaminated water. (Photograph by Roy Mangersnes)

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is collaborating with Value.Space to deploy satellite-based monitoring and risk profiling to lower the risk profile of tailings storage facilities (TSF).

Derisking the world's 12,000 tailing storage facilities (“TSF’s) against potential failures would cost an estimated US$22bn, a small cost compared to an estimated US$688bn in potential liabilities.

EcoVAP was honored to have its pilot Evaporation Matrix with midstream company Deep Blue presented in the article: “EcoVAP - Aerospace Engineering Meets Produced Water Near Midland Airport" (pages 68-69) in the most recent edition of North America Outlook magazine.

EcoVAP was honored to be recognized as a Top 10 Wastewater Evaporation Company by Manufacturing Outlook Magazine. The attached cover story article provides a comprehensive overview of how EcoVAP’s biomimicry-based technology uniquely operates with no thermal energy or significant OPEX, while evaporating at 59x the normal pan rate of a conventional pond.

Although most of the environmental research about fracking and its wastewater disposal has to do with earthquakes, this Wall Street Journal article focuses on the slower, longer term impact of “huge swaths of land that are literally either sinking or heaving”.

The attached table and report provides a comprehensive analysis of all serious tailing pond failures and very serious tailing point failures over the past 6 decades.

A 5.2 magnitude earthquake in the Permian Basin, about 200 miles west of El Paso, is believed to be the largest earthquake in the area to date.