Tank Bottom Oil Recovery

When crude oil is stored for more than a week, the hydrocarbon-entrained solids and sediments settle at the bottom of the storage tank where, over time, they accumulate and decrease storage capacity, which results in the reduction of profits.

In the normal course of business, refineries, oil tanker and oil storage tank owners pay high fees to periodically have their storage tanks cleaned of sediment sludge, and dispose of that sludge with tipping fees paid to licensed landfills for storing the hydrocarbon-contaminated toxic sludge.

EncapSol has the proven ability to chemically-dissolve oil sludge and recover greater than 80% of the tank bottom sludge as oil, which can turn a major oil company’s expense/liability into a revenue-generating asset.

At the end of the EncapSol cleaning process, the sludge is processed by the EncapSol Oil Recovery machine and delivers cleaned oil and a small percentage of waste-material that may be subject to disposal.

With EncapSol, large Oil Companies and Refineries can stop using toxic landfills to dispose of their oil-contaminated sludge and ground soils. EncapSol can effectively pay for the decontamination of the sludge by removing the oil for re-sale while leaving the remaining water, sand, clay, gravel and other mineral by-products cleaned and oil-free for disposal or re-sale as raw materials.

Freestone will work with existing tank cleaning companies to assist in transforming their obsolete sludge-cleanup and disposal businesses into oil-recovery businesses that will make money from the sale of the recovered oil and by-products of value – turning waste into profits.