- 22 November 2006 -
Oilfield desal technology licensed
Texas A&M University has agreed to commercialise a desalination process technology with GeoPure Water Technologies LLC.
The technology, which was developed by the A&M System researchers, is designed to provide quality drinking water from brine produced during petroleum drilling, stimulation and production operations. The technology was developed by a joint venture between industry, the US government and a team of researchers from GPRI, the Texas Water Resources Institute, the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering and the Institute for Food Science and Engineering at Texas A&M developed the technology.
GeoPure will offer the GPRI Design Desalination Technology to the petroleum industry for the effective resource management of produced water in oil and gas operations.
www.tamu.edu
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