Frac Rite Environmental Ltd.
Calgary, AB
Company Overview
Frac Rite Environmental is an independently owned, Canadian company that was formed to provide Hydraulic Fracturing services to the environmental industry. We are the first and only environmental service company in Canada to offer commercial soil fracturing services to enhance the in-place remediation of contaminated sites.
Frac Rite works in conjunction with environmental consultants, government agencies, other environmental service companies, and/or directly with owners/operators of contaminated sites to provide cost-effective solutions to the remediation of contamination in low permeability, 'problem soils' such as silts and clays. Since 1993, Frac Rite personnel have placed hundreds of fractures to expedite the remediation of contaminated sites in Canada, the United States, and Europe (e. g. Belguim).
Environmental Fracturing at sites underlain by contaminated, low permeability soils is achieved through the FRAC RITE(TM) process of physically splitting the soil and placing high permeability sand layers in the resulting fractures. This enables the rapid movement of contaminants through the high permeability sand layers to recovery wells. Subsurface contaminants are thereby removed or treated in place at a much greater rate than by using conventional remedial technologies alone. Environmental Fracturing is a relatively non-disruptive method of remediating soils and groundwater because far fewer recovery wells are needed to remediate a site. This process also eliminates the need for costly disruption and excavation or ex situ remediation of sites underlain by low permeability soils.
Environmental Fracturing has been applied to sites comprising a variety of soil types including glaciolacustrine clays, clay and silt tills, and silty sands for the remediation of, among others: gasoline stations in urban areas; refineries and fuel storage terminals; commercial warehouses and industrial manufacturing plants; gas processing plants in remote settings; and, landfills.
Environmental Fracturing is being coupled with other innovative technologies such as horizontal drilling and in situ bioremediation to remediate sites even faster and at less cost. Frac Rite recently undertook a project to complete the first ever fractured horizontal well in Canada for remediating a former gas plant site.
Frac Rite Environmental Ltd. is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and is actively pursuing markets in North America and internationally with industry partners. Potential joint ventures and/or strategic alliances with companies to pursue these markets would be considered.
Company Information
Physical Address
5325 3rd St. S. E.
Calgary, AB T2H 1J7
CA
Mailing Address
5325 3rd St. S. E.
Calgary, AB T2H 1J7
CA
Additional Details
Legal Name: Frac Rite Environmental Ltd.
CA
The FRAC RITE(tm) process was developed to hydraulically fracture low permeability soils and rock to accelerate the recovery or treatment of subsurface contaminants. Fracturing is conducted using proprietary down-hole fracturing equipment designed for various soil types and operational depths. The resulting network of fractures created in the soil contain high permeable sand to keep the fractures open and to act as pathways for the rapid recovery or in-place treatment of contaminants. The FRAC RITE(tm) process can also be used for injecting biological amendments or chemical reagents with the sand in order to degrade contaminants while also providing enhanced soil permeability. The FRAC RITE(tm) process has been proven to be a cost-effective alternative to conventional remediation, resulting in significant cost savings to our clients.
First ever application of hydraulic fracturing to enhance methane and leachate recovery from municipal landfills; First ever application of fracturing with injection of bio-amendments for bioremediation of chlorinated solvents; First ever application of commercial fracturing in horizontal and deviated recovery wells.
Contacts
Gordon Bures
Title: Vice President
Area of Responsibility: Management Executive
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Products
- Enhanced, In Situ Bioremediation Of Low Permeability Soils
Additional Information
541620
United States