Introducing Envorem, the Oil Sludge Remediation Specialists

Watch our latest video where Envorem MD, Mark Batt-Rawden provides an update on our journey to becoming the go-to oil sludge remediation specialists. Or read the transcript below and discover how our innovative, green tech solution can make a difference, especially to the Oil Industry.

Envorem is a team of environmentally focused engineers. We’re trying to change large-scale business practices for the benefit of the environment. Our current focus is on the oil industry where we're trying to find ways of treating the byproducts of oil production in a way that's good for the client and good for the environment.

So what we do, is we take oil-contaminated materials, in particular oil-contaminated soil and sludge, which are large-volume byproducts of oil production. We extract the hydrocarbons from them to return the solid material as being safe for return to the environment and then we return the oil to the client for them to recycle within their own processes.

One of the reasons that the Oil Industry hasn't been able to resolve these wastes in the past is that up until now there is no environmental way to treat them. Standard solutions are to either

• incinerate them, which just converts all the hydrocarbons straight to carbon dioxide which is bad for the environment and also requires an awful lot of energy, or

• dump the waste into landfills. Hydrocarbons degrade creating carbon dioxide and they also risk leaching into the environment, poisoning the water aquifers and poisoning the soils.

One of the great things about the way that Envorem treats these wastes is that we're exploiting an obscure property of water which means, unlike thermal treatment systems, we don't use a lot of energy. In fact, our system uses about 5% of the energy that a thermal desorption system would use.

In addition, because we're only using water, we don't generate emissions either. If we make a comparison between Envorem systems and incineration, then just 12 Envorem systems, running 24 hours a day, will save more carbon dioxide going into our atmosphere than all the trees in the UK can absorb. And just 38 Envorem systems would save more carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere than all of the world's carbon capture projects combined.

Envreom recognises that the oil industry has had a lot of false dawns with companies claiming that they can treat these wastes and actually they can't. We've taken a number of steps to try and help our clients.

The first is we've set up in Envorem Labs in Stoke-on-Trent and we can receive client samples and process those samples using our techniques at lab scale. From that, we know and can show the client that we can clean the waste that they want to clean. Therefore, when we do go to site both the client knows and we know that the job can be done. In addition to that, we've built the equipment using our own funds so the client doesn't have to pay any capital costs. We can just turn up and process their waste for a fee per tonne.

One of the most exciting things about Envorem at the moment is that we're in the process of building the world's largest machine for processing oil-contaminated sludge and that machine should be ready for deployment around November 2023.

 If you're interested, please get in touch with sales@envorem.com.