Kazakhstan: Oil lagoon recovery with patented bitumen extraction

TTI recently patented a tar sands bitumen extraction facility. It was tested in Utah and succeeded in removing the hydrocarbons from the sands and condensing them into bitumen.

During testing the team realised that tar sands do not hold enough hydrocarbon for the process to be economical, and that the technology would better serve oil lagoons. Several large lagoons are contaminating land around the world, most of them in the former Soviet Union.

TTI has created a partnership with Riyada Consulting of Bahrain and is exploring large opportunities in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, where areas hold millions of barrels of oil that can be captured while cleaning the land.