LTR - Ep 54 - Current Event - Hanby Environmental and OMG Solutions in The Oil & Gas Mecca (Midland/Odessa Texas) Demonstrating The New Remediation Paradigm on TPH and Chlorides

In this 54th episode, I discuss a Current Event - Hanby Environmental and OMG Solutions in The Oil & Gas Mecca (Midland/Odessa Texas) Demonstrating The New Remediation Paradigm on TPH and Chlorides.

Today we traveled to Lighthouse Environmental a Remediation Contractor in "The Mecca."  Lighthouse provided a field sample that they knew was contaminated with Chlorides and Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons, so that we could demonstrate our combined solutions for them.

Our combined solutions are "The New Remediation Paradigm for Chlorides and Total Petroleum Remediation."  This is the combination of real time feedback to monitor the real time and in-situ remediation upon contact by OMG Solutions' ELMN8 ready to use solution that is non-hazardous and non-toxic.

The results from our demonstrations were a PreTreatment Soil sample that was contaminated by TPH (being Crude Oil) of 343,750 ppm.  Then immediately upon contact in our table top demonstration, the contamination was remediated by ELMN8 and reduced to 278 ppm.  That's a 99.99% immediate remediation/reduction!  

And for Chlorides, the PreTreatment Soil sample had Chlorides contamination of 12.5k ppm.  And this contamination was immediately upon contact by ELMN8 was remediated and reduced to 1.8k ppm.  The threshold of interest for Chlorides is 3k ppm.  That's an 86% immediate remediation reduction of Chlorides in the table top demonstration!  This is important to note, as in both demonstrations, they were performed in a bowl, so this ELMN8s the thought that the TPH and Chlorides are pushed down further into the soil.

Below I have included the links to posts about this with pictures for FaceBook and Linkedin.

"Thank You" OMG Solutions (Randy Cook) for co-sponsoring this episode and the contributions in making these demonstrations a huge success!

"Thank You" for tuning in and to Our Ongoing Sponsor Hanby Environmental for the continued support of our podcast having a positive impact on The Environmental Remediation Industry!

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Thanks for joining in our podcast. We love having you here, and it's our mission to bring you all the latest and greatest tips, skills, and know-how to make you the best that you can be. We know that you have it in you, and we're going to show you how. Now, now let's get started. Hey there, let's talk remediation. This is your host, Charles Fader, and this is our 54th episode of Let's Talk Remediation. Our 54th episode is brought to us by our ongoing sponsor, Hambi Environmental. Hambi Environmental is a manufacturer of field test kits to analyze total petroleum hydrocarbons, to analyze PFAS and PFOS, and to analyze chlorides in soil and solid surface and water samples. So thank you, Hambi Environmental, for your ongoing support of this podcast, Let's Talk Remediation, where we're trying to have a positive impact on the environmental remediation industry. And today we have an additional sponsor. We have OMG Solutions, who is participating in the 54th episode as the current event, and that current event is the use of the new remediation paradigm for petroleum hydrocarbons and chlorides. So thank you, OMG Solutions and Randy Cook for your participation in sponsoring uh this podcast episode of Let's Talk Remediation. So with that, let's start our 54th episode. And like I said, it is a current event. And the current event is Hambi Environmental and OMG Solutions taking a trip to the Mecca, the oil and gas mecca in Midland and Odessa, Texas. The world's Mecca for oil and gas. Today we uh took a trip up to Midland and Odessa, and the purpose was we were visiting a prospective client, Lighthouse Environmental, and Lighthouse Environmental had an interest in uh the use of our uh our combined solution for remediating uh petroleum hydrocarbons and chlorides, and so they said they were going to obtain a chloride sample from one of their clients that was known to have a chloride problem from a chloride spill. So they were going to obtain that sample, and we were coming up to perform our combined solution on that sample. So today we arrived in the Mecca, and so we went to perform uh our combined solution, the new remediation paradigm for petroleum hydrocarbons and chlorides on their sample, and we started by first uh showing them our chlorides remediation solution. And what that is, is using the HANB environmental chlorides field test kit to monitor the remediation of OMG solutions product called Eliminate that works on chlorides upon contact. And so we started by going ahead and performing on that uh soil sample that was contaminated with chlorides. And uh beforehand uh they said take a whiff of this sample. It was in a five-gallon bucket, and we took a whiff of that and man it about knocked you out from petroleum hydrocarbons. And so we're like, yep, it's got both. Uh as you say, it's got chlorides and petroleum hydrocarbons. And so we went about starting with chlorides, and we went ahead and did uh the Hambi chlorides test on it, and to our surprise, there was hardly any chlorides at all. And for you know, the threshold level for chlorides, uh the threshold of interest is you've got a problem if the chloride levels in the sample, whether it's a soil sample or a water sample, if they're over 3,000 ppm chlorides. Um and much to our surprise and much to their surprise, uh, we were getting chlorides uh next to zero, actually. So to the tune of definitely, you know, in and around 1,000 ppm. So we told them, uh guys, you don't have a chloride problem. However, let's move forward and uh do what we can smell and test your uh petroleum hydrocarbons. And so we moved over to our you know new remediation paradigm, which isn't so new anymore considering we've been doing it for the last 10 years, the combined solution using the Hambi environmental TPH field test kit to monitor the real-time and in- situment of the petroleum hydrocarbons using OMG solution eliminate, which is a ready-to-use, non-hazardous, and non-toxic solution that upon contact breaks down the petroleum hydrocarbons and oxidizes it and converts it or neutralizes it into water and carbon dioxide. And so we went ahead and did a pretest sample and uh we found that uh uh you know our calibration photo goes from zero to ten percent, which is a hundred thousand uh parts per million of uh TPH uh crude oil in soil, and it's dark brown at the 100,000 ppm mark. And the pretreatment sample was darker brown than the 100,000 upper calibration limit. So, what that told us is we need to perform a dilution in order to bring that in range, and so we performed the dilution and brought that into range so that the result would fall in between the zero and one hundred thousand ppm, and it fell about in between uh what we call twenty thousand and fifty thousand, and so we said it looks to be about halfway between the two, which would be thirty-five thousand uh ppm. Well, that's thirty-five thousand ppm after performing a 10 times dilution. So 35,000 times 10 is 350,000 uh ppm. So that was uh much to their surprise. So uh, but not to our surprise given the way that the sample smelled, and of course, uh that initial test prior to doing the dilution showing that dark brown above the upper limit of 100,000. So what we knew was at that point we had a 350,000 uh plus or minus, you know, 10,000, 15,000, so uh 350,000 ppm uh clo uh TPH, which is total petroleum hydrocarbons, which is crude oil, in the soil as a pre-treatment sample. So then we went forward with treating that soil sample with OMG solutions eliminate product, and we treated that sample and then retested that soil sample. And when we retested it, it looked like it fell somewhere close to you know between the 500 ppm and the 2000 ppm, or it even could be a little bit below the 500 ppm mark. So we said, okay, obviously we did a great job in uh immediately treating your petroleum hydrocarbons uh that were in that sample, going from about 350,000 to you know about 500 or 500 or 1,000 uh ppm. So great, that was great. We said, let's go back to the chloride sample real fast, and we have some production water or produced water or brine water. There's so many different names for it. It's the water that comes up with the production of bringing crude oil out of the ground uh that is very high in salinity or salt content or chlorides. So we have some of that, and uh we'll add that to the soil sample, and then we'll uh you know contaminate that soil sample so that we actually have a contaminated chlorides uh soil sample where we can you know show you how we remediate it. And so we did that, we poured some of that uh produced water with the high salinity or high chlorides level in it, and we retested it, and at that point in time we got a result that from our our Hambi environmental chlorides uh field test kit that showed that it was probably in the range of 30,000 uh ppm uh chlorides in in uh in the soil sample. Uh or actually, I think it wasn't 30,000, it was 12,500 is what it was, excuse me. So 12,500 because uh of 12,500 chlorides in the soil sample, and we got that by comparing it to our calibration photo and knowing the amount of the colored development solution that was required in order to change the colors uh as per the protocol for the uh field test kit. So we so we knew that at that point in time we had converted the soil sample of theirs that had near zero or you know, a thousand ppm or less chlorides. We increased it to twelve thousand five hundred, so we knew that we had chlorides in the in the uh soil at that point. So then we treated it with the eliminate the same way we would treat uh the um the TPH that we've been doing for the last 10 years. We treated that chlorides contaminated soil sample with eliminate again, and then we retested it again, and at that point in time we got uh a level that was based again on the protocol of how much of our color development solution is required in order to create the the color as per the protocol for the field test kit, and at that point in time we got results that showed that they were below 1,000 ppm. So, again, the threshold uh of interest for chlorides in soil is 3,000 ppm. So immediately upon contact, we were able to show the reduction from 12,500 ppm chlorides in soil to below 1,000 ppm chlorides in soil, which is obviously below the 3000 threshold of interest. So immediately upon contact, we had shown that we were able to also remediate the chlorides the same way we remediate TPH or total petroleum hydrocarbons, or the in this case the crude oil was what was in the soil sample. So then uh we actually ran the numbers with the Hambi mobile app. Okay, and the Hambi Mobile app came back and told us that for the TPH uh analysis that was performed, we had pre-treatment by eliminate, we had 34,375 ppm after a 10-time solution, making it 343,750. So right about that 350,000 mark we were talking about. If you wanted to round it up, is 344,000 ppm versus what we initially estimated to be uh 350,000. So 344,000 ppm. Then post-treatment by the eliminate, the result from the Hamby mobile app showed 278 ppm. So for TPH analysis, immediately upon contact in the tabletop demonstration, which is in a bowl, so there's nowhere else for it to go, from a customer supplied field sample, we showed that we had a pretreatment sample of 344,000 ppm reduced to 278 or rounded to 300 ppm immediately upon contact for TPH. And then for the chlorides where we had to add the the uh produced water to the their soil sample that they thought that had chlorides that we were able to show that didn't have chlorides in it, after adding that chloride sample, uh we used the Hambi chlorides field test kit and showed that there was 12,500 ppm chlorides in that soil sample. That immediately reduced it down to, oh, it's actually 1800. So from 12,500 down to 1800 ppm. And again, how do we know that is based on the protocol for the field test kit where there's a correlation between the amount of color development solution required in order to make the color change that showed 12,500 ppm chlorides in the soil, and then after a small uh treatment by the eliminate solution was immediately reduced to the 1800 ppm, and that 1800 ppm obviously is below the 3000 threshold of interest. And how we knew that was because that small quantity of uh colored development solution of only a half milliliter uh was what was used, and per the calibration photo, the the threshold of interest of 3,000 is at one milliliter uh is required. So about half of that 3,000, which would be about 1,500, is you know, half a milliliter. So using the half milliliter to get the chemical reaction done, we were able to determine that it was you know the 1800. So 1500, 1800, whatever, is about half of the threshold of 3,000 ppm. And of course, that was down again from the pretreatment sample of 12,500. So good day for us in the Mecca, in the uh the oil and gas mecca of the world, Midland Odessa, Texas, where we showed uh in our demonstrations, our live demonstrations on customer provided field samples for Lighthouse Environmental, Hambi Environmental and OMG solution teamed up again to once again show that our new remediation paradigm for both total petroleum hydrocarbons and chlorides works and is changing the way petroleum uh remediation and chlorides remediation is done. So, with that, uh as always, if you have a future podcast topic or a future question you'd like for us to address on a future podcast, don't hesitate to drop me an email at C Fader, that's C FSN Frank A T O R at let's talkremediation.com, and we'll get that on a future podcast. And thank you again for tuning in, and thank you, OMG Solutions, again for uh your sponsorship and participation in this podcast, and thank you, Hambi Environmental, for your ongoing support. Thank you for tuning in, and we'll catch you on the next one. This is your host, Charles Fader, and I'm out. This week's episode has come to an end. But the fun doesn't have to stop here. If you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback, head over right now to Twitter and Facebook and like, share, and get involved. Join us next time.