The History of Ultra3X™

PictureDemonstration for Singapore water de-salinisation company. Dallas. 2014
Ultra3X™ was formed after years of preparation and experience.  Ultra3X™ has acquired significant intellectual property in terms of water processing technologies and water management techniques.  Ultra3X™, together with one of it’s strategic partner companies, is the owner of a patent application describing technology that separates organics from water by rejecting the organics using a treated membrane.  Ultra3X™ also has provisional patent applications, patent applications and trade secret technology and techniques, together with  unique technology to reduce dissolved solids in water 80 to 95% and reduce suspended solids by 99%. 

​The team at Ultra3X™ includes extremely dynamic people who believe in the vision  of efficient and cost saving recycling and remediation combining new technologies and techniques.  This team is building on the vision by bringing their own unique skills and abilities to bear.  The intense level of teamwork in Ultra3X™ is unmatched and creates a dynamic energy.  Ultra3X™ is poised to launch full operations,  in oil and gas, in the sugar indust and other industries.  Ultra3X management has deployed in field operations the full compliment of technologies. We have two demonstration machines, with a third anticipated soon, for the Molecular Organic Rejection (MOR)  technology. We will then have a demonstration unit operating full time in North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.  A demonstration machine for the Hydro Magnetic Flocculation and Coagulation (HFMC or Mag Floc) technology is under development and the team plans to have it operating by the beginning of 2020. 
Ultra3X™ Accomplishments and Milestones Include:
  • Demonstrations in Texas and North Dakota for: Hunt Oil-Knox City and Dallas, TX/ SMU, Hunt Oil-Minot; Hess Petroleum-Minot; WPX-Killdeer; XTO-Killdeer; Marathon Oil-Dickinson and Houston: Oasis Petroleum-Williston; Statoil-Williston; Clear Water-Williston; Whiting-Williston and Dickinson; Rockwater Energy-Williston; Continental Resources-Killdeer, AER (Alberta Energy Regulators, Calgary and Deer Park, Alberta, CA-Presentation and Demonstration, Encana, Calgary, AB-Canada, Parsley Energy (Austin, TX), Pioneer Resources-Dallas, TX, AMNI International Petroleum Company, Ltd (The Woodlands, Houston and Lagos, Nigeria). 
  • Ultra3X™has also made presentations to the MHA Nation of three tribes on the Ft. Berthold Reservation in North Dakota and Jones has spoken at their annual Energy conference.
  • Team members have run a full field operation north of Killdeer, ND in December and January, 2015 testing two of the main technologies in use together. 
  • Conducted testing with the EERC (Energy and Environmental Research Center), a part of the University of North Dakota, to demonstrate reduction of all organics, including bacteria and hdyrocarbons, to non-detectable levels and with one pass, reducing TDS from approximately 280,000 ppm to 28,000 ppm. 
  • Conducted numerous third-party testing of water by labs, customers and others. 
  • Operated full scale industrial size units capable of processing as much as 8-10,000 barrels of water per day or 300+ gpm. 
  • Created a fully scalable water recycling or remediation line up of technologies with plug and play ability and all equipment and units on skids or wells for total mobility.
  • Lined up multiple manufacturers and fabricators for the processing equipment.
  • Team members conducted a full range of testing with Marathon Oil Company with an eye towards full use of our technology. ​
  •  Collaborating with Dr. Maohong Fan, University of Wyoming, to place a line up of Ultra3X™ technology on the UW campus for study. Work with Dr. Fan includes studying the current use of minerals to assist in the coagulation and precipitation of dissolved and suspended solids.  Dr. Fan also worked to determine uses for the solid waste created by the Hydro Magnetic Flocculation and Coagulation device.
  • Ultra3X™ has had numerous meetings with the North Dakota Industrial Commission-Oil and Gas Division lead staff regarding recycling and regulations. ​
  • Engaged with Southern Methodist University Lyle School of Engineering to gain assistance in testing, evaluation, design improvement and third party verification of technology.  Ultra3X™ anticipates placing one of it’s demonstration units on campus for further work and evaluation in the near future. 
  • Initiated a relationship with University of Texas-Arlington and CLEAR Lab to review water testing methods and conduct third party verification of technology. 
  • Tested and validated a uniquely designed “tank truck clean out” system and facility capable of washing out “dirty” tank trucks and then cleaning them so that they may be used as “clean” tank trucks and take a load of processed water and eliminate huge expense of deadheading and reducing impact on roadways. 
  • Created, designed and financially modeled a Water Park design for a stand alone facility capable of handling from 20,000 to 180,000 barrels per day of water and processing and storing that water for use by E & P Companies. 
  • Created, designed and financially modeled a water recycling facility that can be placed at any designated location and utilize either/or pipeline or trucking transfer of water.
  • Designed a dynamic and prepared provisional patent filing for water management techniques that would allow for new management paradigms driven by the fact of incredibly clean water that results from the processing we use thereby setting up projects where nearly all water is kept on site and no water is purchased off site and no water is disposed of through SWD’s (Salt Water Disposal) or injection wells. 
  • Designed and put into operation a full size 8,000 to 10,000 bpd MOR Unit
  • Team members conducted demonstrations for numerous companies in British Columbia and Alberta, including Encana. 
  • Gregory Jones made a presentation to the AER, the Alberta Energy Regulators, in Calgary and then followed with demonstrations of technology to chemists associated with the AER. 
PictureMOR Demonstration Unit at the North Dakota Petroleum Council Annual Meeting. September, 2013.
 
The Ultra3X™ team includes  top industry advisers including Mark Miller, PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Standford University and formerly on the faculty of the University of Texas-Austin’s Engineering school.  Also, Monte Besler, a highly respected completion consultant, from Williston,North Dakota.  The team also boasts geologist Andrew Sneddon of Oklahoma with Paladin Geological Services as a resource, a stellar company in the areas of mud logging, geo-steering, geochemistry and geophysics.   

PicturePresenting at a demonstration of the MOR Demo Unit at the Annual Meeting of the North Dakota Petroleum Council
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Ultra3X™ has been Working in Texas and North Dakota, and in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and West Virginia as well as both Alberta and British Columbia in Canada.  Ultra3X™ searched for and created technologies, techniques and feasible locations to determine the best ways that these new technologies and techniques could help industries. In particular, the oil and gas industry will benefit by recycling the billions of gallons of water that are required to harvest oil and gas.  Ultra3X™ is potentially poised to experience extraordinary growth based on the years of research, development and work that the current team of Ultra3X™ has provided to the company. 
PictureMOR unit arriving at a Field Operation in Killdeer, North Dakota
​The Ultra3X™ team recognized the elegance and value of the MOR technology and has  explored ways that the technology could be used in oil and gas operations.  After investigating the uses and the economic models Ultra3X™  was able to bring together multiple technologies and techniques to create various economic models designed and tailored for each industry and each customer. ​
​The unique marriage of these technologies allows companies to have a positive environmental footprint at a COST SAVINGS over their current operations.  The huge potential for recycling and remediation, and the ability of exploration and production companies to recycle nearly 100% of their wastewater, creates a new positive dynamic regarding the liability and cost of disposal of millions of barrels of water in waste disposal wells