"To help operators extract more petroleum from process water and reduce the need to use fresh water in the fracturing operations, OriginOil has developed a chemical-free water treatment and separation technology...." Read more...

"Most of this argument is over water, reports the Financial Times. Hydraulic fracturing uses between 4 and 6 million gallons of water for each well, says the National Petroleum Council, an industry representatives and environmental advisory group..." Read more...

"Although Tauzinat has over two decades of experience in emerging markets, new technologies and their applications, he remains a relative newcomer to the world of water, energy and waste. This has not prevented him, however, from taking his start-up firmly by the horns and forming a highly effective tripartite relationship with the UK-based incubator PJC and the US algae oil services leader OriginOil. Their joint venture is focused firmly on urbanized markets, where the hope is that high population densities and rising energy prices will see to it that algae will in due course come to stand out from the ecological crowd...." Read more...