Fuse Enviro - Head Office, Calgary, AB

Fuse Enviro’s leadership team focused their attention on developing a technology for not only recovering the mud, but cleaning the mud for immediate re-use, avoiding handling and disposal costs completely. They called this technology the RecoverTank. After incorporating May 2, 2007, field testing with a demonstration RecoverTank began June 25, 2007. The first year of operations was focused primarily on research and development of the prototype RecoverTank, its construction, testing and modification. In that period a first model of RecoverTank was developed, which proved to be very successful and produced tremendous results in field trials, not just in the lab setting.

It operated beyond expectations on 9 wells throughout 2007-2008 drilling period. It’s operations had proven to be a significant asset surprise to its first clients, with Fuse Enviro recovering an average of 38m3 per well. All of these demonstration wells have had hazardous material disposal locations accessible, and were not considered remote, yet still avoided significant disposal costs. Ultimately, and importantly, the resultant cost savings were always of higher value than the cost of the RecoverTank service. During its initial trials, research and extensive hands on operation by the company principles identified opportunities for improvement that could be incorporated into the design to increase efficiencies, increase recovery rates, and further develop the technology.