An agreement was recently signed between the Houston, USA-based oil company VFuels and the Lebanese water and wastewater treatment technology provider, Emco Engineering. The aim of the tie-up is to develop water treatment solutions for oil and gas companies in Africa.
The African continent will benefit from a new partnership for water management in the oil and gas industry. The companies VFuels and Emco Engineering want to develop solutions for the treatment of water from this type of activity. The memorandum of understanding between the two parties was signed on 30 March 2022.
According to the agreement, Lebanese water and wastewater treatment technology provider Emco Engineering will design the new water treatment solutions. These will be digital solutions that will add significant value in terms of cost reduction and environmental preservation by the oil and gas industries in Africa. As a reminder, oil spills have huge consequences on nature, including marine mammals, fish, birds, as well as flora, disrupting the ecological balance.
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Emco Engineering will also ensure the sustainable and appropriate deployment of its solutions in Africa. This work will be facilitated by VFuels’ knowledge of the African market and the oil and gas industry. The US company specialises in the manufacture of modular oil and gas processing equipment. The equipment is assembled and tested in Houston, Texas (USA) before shipping.
Sustainable water management in the face of drought
For Cody Summerhays, VFuels’ global business development manager, the challenge is to redefine the way oil and gas water treatment projects are developed on the continent.
While countries such as Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Namibia are already treating these effluents for irrigation in response to drought and for the supply of drinking water to the population (Namibia), several states are still dragging their feet, helplessly suffering the effects of this climatic phenomenon without any real response strategy.
Inès Magoum
