OILFIELD TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION AND GREENING THE DESERT

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OILFIELD TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
REMEDIATION AND GREENING THE DESERT
Cleaning up contaminated sites and squeezing
water out of Gypsum using green technologies
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Site Remediation Services

• FRAC RITE IS A LEADING PROVIDER OF ENHANCED IN
  SITU REMEDIATION SERVICES USING TECHNOLOGIES
  ADAPTED FROM THE PETROLEUM SECTOR
• Hydraulic Fracturing of Soils Bedrock
• Chemical and Biological Contaminant Treatment
• Permeation and Fracture-emplacement of Remedial
  Amendments
• Subsurface verification of Clean-up using 3D
  Tiltmeter Geophysics Technology

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Green Technology Advantages

• Competitive Advantages of our Patented, Advanced
  Technologies
• in situ solution for difficult soil and bedrock
  conditions (low K sites)
• sustainable remediation to natural end
  products,e.g. H2O, CO2, H, Cl-
• non-disruptive (no dig) to sites with ongoing
  operations no impact to business
• applicable to virtually all contaminants and
  subsurface phase distributions
• effective with physical, biological, or chemical
  remediation techniques
• verifiable using subsurface mapping technology
  and 3D visualization
• passive low cost approach that requires minimal,
  if any, operational remediation systems

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Typical Fracture Remediation

1. Soil Fracturing to increase permeability
2. Injection of chemical oxidants or biological
   reagents into fractures and surrounding soils.

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MINING WATER FROM GYPSUM USING FRACTURING AND
SOLAR HEAT

• Across the Arabian Peninsula, there are vast
  Gypsum formations.
• Gypsum is the second largest fresh water deposit
  on earth!
• The Gulf Co-operation Council proclaimed that the
  water situation is critical and Gulf aquifers are
  becoming exhausted.
• Gypsum water extraction using patented heating
  and fracturing technologies is one of the most
  promising technologies to alleviate the water
  shortage.

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WATER FROM GYPSUM

• Gypsum (CaSO4 2H2O) is a soft mineral that is
  20 pure water by weight
• which occurs in abundance in Saudi Arabia and
  Oman.
• In volume, gypsum consists of over 40 of pure
  water!!
• Water is produced from Gypsum by heating to 58
  - 150 degrees Celsius
• Heat is obtained from solar radiation
  concentrated by solar mirrors.

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CONCEPTUALIZED EXTRACTION OF WATER FROM
GYPSUM

1. Heating converts gypsum into bassanite and
   subsequently anhydrite (CaSO4) and water. Holland
   Innovation Team has discovered and patented a
   process (2007) that produces water at low
   temperatures of between 70 and 95 degrees
   Celcius.
2. Thermal energy from solar heated, pressurized air
   is transported through dual wall well casing into
   gypsum formations that are hydraulically
   fractured for maximizing water production.
3. Water in the form of steam or vapour recovered
   from the wells condenses at the surface to yield
   a potable source of water.

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INVESTOR- READY PILOT PROJECTS FOR WATER
EXTRACTION FROM GYPSUM

• Holland Innovation Team started work in gypsum
  deposits in 1987
• We have 20 years of expertise in gypsum in over
  20 countries
• We wrote many reports about gypsum deposits and
  dehydration and studied and reported dehydration
  of gypsum caprock during installation of a heat
  source
• We did over ten years of laboratory work on
  gypsum
• We inventoried suitable gypsum deposits for
  dewatering in over 20 African and Arab countries
• We identified 8 different sectors in which the
  concept is applicable for industrial purposes
• We patented several of our findings (2005-2008)
• We have prepared a large scale test and are ready
  to perform
• We can start more than 10 projects immediately

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• HOLLAND INNOVATION TEAM
• Drs. Peter van der Gaag Phone [phone]
• Korte Hoogstraat 15-B Fax [phone]
• NL-3011 GJ Rotterdam Mobile [phone]
• The Netherlands
• www.hollandinnovationteam.nl
• FRAC RITE ENVIRONMENTAL LTD.
• Mr. Gordon Bures, P.Eng. Phone [phone]
  5533
• 2, 4416- 5TH Street N.E. Fax [phone]
• Calgary, Alberta T2E 7C3 Mobile [phone]
  5533
• Canada
• www.fracrite.ca