Our History

Ultra3X was formed after years of preparation and experience by the founders of the company. Ultra3X has acquired significant intellectual property in terms of water processing technologies and water management techniques. Ultra3X, together with one of its strategic partner companies, is the owner of a patent application describing technology that separates organics from water by rejecting the organics using a membrane that is treated or optimized using a chemical that changes the structure of the membrane. Ultra3X also has additional provisional patent applications, patent applications, and trade secret technology and techniques, together with unique technology that is in the public domain to reduce dissolved solids in water from 80 to 95% and reduce suspended solids by 99%. Click here to learn more about the Ultra3X technologies.

The team at Ultra3X includes an extremely dynamic and dedicated team of people who believe in the vision of efficient and cost-saving, profit-making recycling and remediation by combining new technologies and techniques with known 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 an incredible dynamic energy. The team has worked hard to bring Ultra3X to where it is now and has launched full operations, first in the oil and gas and energy industry, and is poised to enter other industries and applications. The team has deployed in field operations the full complement of technologies and has pilot machines for the technologies in use. We anticipate the addition of more pilot machines soon. Plans include pilot and demonstration units operating full time in Texas, North Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Montana. A demonstration machine for the Hydro Magnetic Flocculation and Coagulation technology is still under development and will soon be announced.

Some of the other accomplishments of the team include:

• Performing demonstrations in Texas and in North Dakota for: Hunt Oil-Knox City, Hunt Oil- Minot; Hunt Oil in Dallas, TX at SMU; Hess Petroleum-Minot; WPX-Killdeer; XTO-Killdeer, Marathon Oil-Dickinson and Houston, Oasis Petroleum-Williston; Statoil-Williston; K EOG-Barnhart, TX, Clear Water-Williston; Whiting-Williston and Dickinson; Rockwater Energy-Williston; Continental Resources-Killdeer; VISTA Disposal, Oklahoma and Orla, TX; AMNI International Nigeria and Houston, TX, and a long list of companies;
• Ultra3X has also made presentations to the MHA Nation of three tribes on the Ft. Berthold Reservation in North Dakota and spoke at the MHA Annual Bakken Energy Conference.
• Run a full Field Operation just north of Killdeer, ND, in December and January 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 hydrocarbons, 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 10-12,000 barrels of water per day or 300+ gpm.
• Created a complete marketing plan with sales techniques tailored to the industry and a complete compensation/commission plan.
• 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.
• Conducted a full range of testing with Marathon Oil Company with an eye towards full use of our technology by Marathon Oil Company.
• Invited to present and perform demonstrations with our pilot unit for the AER (Alberta Energy Regulators) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• Ultra3X has had numerous meetings with the North Dakota Industrial Commission-Oil and Gas Division lead staff, Mark Bohrer, and his assistant, Cody Vanderbusch, regarding recycling and regulations. Approval for use of the technology in North Dakota by the North Dakota Industrial Commission, North Dakota Oil and Gas Division.
• Engaged with Dr. Maohong Fan, a triple PhD from the University of Wyoming. Dr. Fan is arranging approval to place an entire lineup of Ultra3X technology on the University of Wyoming Campus for study, improvement, and further development. Working with Dr. Fan will include studying the current use of the mineral Siderite to assist in the coagulation and precipitation of dissolved solids and suspended solids without the use of chemicals. Dr. Fan is also working to determine uses for the solid waste created by the Hydro Magnetic Flocculation and Coagulation device with the precipitate.
• Engaged with Southern Methodist University Lyle School of Engineering and Dr. Ali Beskok, Associate Dean of the Lyle School of Engineering, to gain assistance in testing, evaluation, design improvement, and third-party verification of technology. Dr. Beskok has set up a laboratory dedicated to the Ultra3X technologies and to assist in optimization and charging of membranes, improving techniques for optimization, and industrial and manufacturing applications.
• Initiated a relationship with the University of Texas-Arlington and CLEAR Lab to review water testing methods and conduct third-party verification of technology.
• Designed, Tested and proved up a “tank truck clean out” system in North Dakota with Dave Blair and KLJ Engineering in Bismark, North Dakotka and designing a 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 patent pending 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 were literally all water is kept on site and no water is purchased off site and no water is disposed of through SWD’s or injection wells.
• Designed and put into operation a full-size 10,000 bpd MOR Unit
• Designed and put the Pilot MOR Unit into operation, dedicated to Nigeria and our Nigerian Partner, Gankco Energy Services, LTD.

The Ultra3X team includes stellar team members and advisers including Chris Anderson, an electrical engineer specializing in SCADA, controls, control design, control software management and design with vast experience in oil and gas operations throughout the United States and Nigeria working with companies such as Marathon, EXXON, Chevron, and many others, Gregg Whittaker, PhD in Economics from University of Michigan and former professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at William Jewell University in Kansas City, formerly with Chase Bank and operating his own equity firm, Michael Judd, with a Masters in Engineering from MIT with a background in Nuclear Engineering, Mark Miller, PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University and formerly on the faculty of the University of Texas-Austin’s Engineering school. Also, Monte Besler, a Petroleum Engineer and very well-respected completion consultant, is from North Dakota. The team has also included geologist Andrew Sneddon of Oklahoma with Paladin Geological Services, a stellar company in the areas of mud logging, geosteering, geochemistry, and geophysics.

The Ultra3X Team recognizes the elegance and value of these technologies and techniques in oil and gas operations. Ultra3X is able to bring together multiple technologies and techniques to create multiple economic models designed for and tailored to each industry and each customer. The uniqueness of this suite of technologies and techniques gives customers a positive environmental footprint at a COST SAVINGS and with ADDED PROFIT to the customer over current operations. The vast potential for recycling and remediation and the ability of, particularly, exploration and production companies and refineries, to recycle nearly 100% of their waste water….and do it cheaper while relieving themselves of the liability of disposal of millions of barrels of water in waste disposal wells, creates a new dynamic in that industry.

Working many months mainly in Texas and North Dakota, but also in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and West Virginia, as well as both Alberta and British Columbia in Canada. Greg scoured the countryside for technologies, techniques, and feasible locations to determine the best ways that these new technologies and techniques could help industries, most notably the oil and gas industry, by recycling the billions of gallons of water that are required to harvest oil and gas. Ultra3X is now poised to launch to extraordinary levels based on the years of research, development, and work that the current team of Ultra3X has applied to the company.

Ultra3X has pioneered the idea of creating a CLEAN BRINE for use in fracking operations. Ultra3X is the KING of CLEAN BRINE.