Recovering Oil Mud

The extraction of crude oil inevitably brings substantial oil contamination as the crude oil infiltrates into the soil around the oil well. This infiltration of oil mixed with soil creates oil mud, which destroys the micro-flora and fertility of the soil. This has always been a problem with no solution ­ until now.

The concept of HARDOIL is as follows:

Oil-mud should be mixed with environmentally friendly liquid additives ­ which are under patent protection. In order to save costs, such additives should be mixed with water on site providing easy and fast preparation. Reaction of fixing takes about 30 minutes. Afterwards the mud solidifies within 120-180 minutes.

The resulting solid product has a homogenous consistency and the hardness of a briquette. This solidified hard material can be transported to the site of utilization and its former space can be refilled with non-contaminated soil.

Such solidified, briquette-like product could be used as follows:

1. It can be poured into the environment, e.g. in the form of a 300 m diameter of ring-shaped bulkhead around the oil well.

2. As above, it can be poured into a ditch cut around the oil well and covered with sand after solidification.

3. Alternatively the mix can be poured in moulds to obtain bricks. Such bricks can be used as refill for road construction (foundation) or otherwise used in the building industry.

The oil-mud can be transported with dump trucks to the site of road construction and processed on-site.

It could be used as road construction material solidifying in the road's foundation.

The additives and the resulting materials after solidification are proven to be environmentally friendly.