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OriginOil Names Manufacturer for New Performance-Based Frack Water Cleanup Program

Clean Water Technology will manufacture CLEAN-FRAC systems for zero-capital sales program

OriginOil, Inc. announced today that it has named Clean Water Technology (CWT) to manufacture commercial-scale equipment for its new performance-based water cleanup program Read more...


Garden State bioEnterprises Adopts OriginOil Technology for High-Value Astaxanthin Harvesting

“Game-changer” in concentrating delicate algae has potential to enable the predicted $2 billion world market for Astaxanthin

OriginOil, Inc. and Garden State bioEnterprises, LLC. announced today that GS bioE has adopted OriginOil’s harvesting technology as a key component of its proprietary production system for the high-value product Astaxanthin.

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Enhanced Third Party Testing Shows 99% Oil and Solids Removal, Further Validating OriginOil CLEAN-FRAC Process


OriginOil Accelerates Commercialization of CLEAN-FRAC System with First Commercial Unit Planned for 3rd Quarter


Two California Startups Team Up To Challenge Halliburton’s Costs For Cleaning Produced Water and Frack Water


OriginOil’s CLEAN-FRAC™ Water Treatment System Yields Successful First Field Results


OriginOil Strengthens Focus on Frack Water Cleanup; Launches Licensing Group to Accelerate Commercialization in Secondary Markets


OriginOil Partners with Aquaculture Producer to Study Impact of its Technology in Transforming $100 Billion Global Market


OriginOil Removes Up To 99% of Bacteria in Harvested Algae, Solving Key Barrier for Multi-Billion Dollar Industry


OriginOil’s Breakthrough Harvesting Technology Spotlighted in Launch of French Urban Algae Program


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CEO's Update

The Photo That Will Shock You

A Shocking Photo: “Sully” Sullivan is amazed by a “before and after” photo with very dirty fish farm water on the right, and crystalline water on the left. CEO Riggs Eckelberry shows off the Facebook photo album, of the OriginOil lab crew after yesterday’s successful test of the aquaculture prototype, now set for a field test in early June. And Sully reports on the Wall Street Journal news that OriginOil has retained Merriman Capital for strategic market advisory services Read more...


Warp Speed For New Apps

It took algae four years and oil and gas one year, now aquaculture prospects have opened up just six weeks since we first started building the first prototype, says CEO Riggs Eckelberry. And the promise is that our latest breakthroughs will get us into more industries, from nuclear to agriculture to industrial Read more...


OriginOil at the Department of Energy

Remember the DOE? We just built and delivered a lab-scale algae growing and harvesting system that DOE's INL will use to produce algal biomass. CEO Riggs Eckelberry reports on the progress following this week’s “Pay By The Gallon” announcement and the organization going into three separate business units Read more...


Pressure Grows on Fracking


Algae benefits from the “Oprah Effect”


Fracking’s Big Problem – and the Solution


New Coverage Targets Improper Trading


OriginOil in the Bakken Formation


A Frack Water Tax, and the Drama of Contamination


Commercial success makes for a crazy schedule


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OriginOil In The News

Reuters: Insight: The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill

"...Take OriginOil, a U.S. startup that developed a process to convert algae into renewable crude oil. It now markets technology to oil and gas producers for the cleanup of water that is contaminated in the fracking process used to extract shale oil and gas." Read more...


Breaking Energy: Wastewater Recycling Part III: Costs and Challenges

"Eckleberry said that while treating water for reuse has traditionally been more costly than disposal in deep injection wells or trucking to a water treatment site – 11 cents per gallon for deep injection and 7.5 cents per gallon for hauling to a treatment plant, compared to more than 20 cents for chemical treatment – “for the newer generation of electrocoagulation, Halliburton’s running around 4-4.5 cents per gallon, and we’re running 1.25 cents per gallon for our process" Read more...


Breaking Energy: Wastewater Recycling Part II: How it’s Done

"OriginOil uses a system called Electro Water Separation (EWS). EWS combines electrocoagulation – using electrical pulses to prompt organic material in water to coagulate, or clump together – and electrofloation, which makes clumped material float to the surface, where it can simply be raked off the top." Read more...


Algae Industry Magazine: OriginOil teams with CWT for water cleanup


Breaking Energy: Wastewater Recycling Part I: Will Drilling and Environmental Goals Align as Cleanup Costs Fall?


Newhope 360: Astaxanthin harvesting gets a boost


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