Company News

11/26/2011

American Spirit Enterprises  CEO R.L.Reed   announced Friday that there study of CO2 mitigation technology specific to the CO2 emissions  from  the Coal and Natural Gas fired Electric plants is on track for release in December 2012.  With the increase in earth quake activity being related to deep well disposal in the gas and oil industry, the company has taken a novel approach to the CO2 pollution situation.  While the DOE (Department of Energy) is “looking into this problem ASEI is taking action.

     Funded with $106 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act the first part of a $1.4 billion project(tax payer funded) ,  the funds went to 6 major companies that were selected by DOE.  We are not one of those selected.   “The selected projects now enter a second phase in which researchers design, construct, and operate their innovations at pilot-scale and evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of applying them commercially.” For details of the specifics click here.

Additional Funded projects

Secretary Chu Announces $3 Billion Investment for Carbon Capture and Sequestration   December 4, 2009 – 12:00am

 Washington, DC – US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the selection of three new projects with a value of $3.18 billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale.

Department of Energy Announces 15 Projects Aimed at Secure CO2 Underground Storage    August 11, 2010 – 12:00am

 Washington, D.C. - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the selection of 15 projects to develop technologies aimed at safely and economically storing carbon dioxide in geologic formations.  Funded with $21.3 million over three years, today’s selections will complement existing DOE initiatives to help develop the technology and infrastructure to implement large-scale CO2 storage in different geologic formations across the Nation.
September 9, 2011 – 6:16pm
Washington, D.C. —U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the selection of six projects aimed at developing technologies to lower the cost of producing electricity in integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants using carbon capture, while maintaining the highest environmental standards.  Supported with up to $14 million in total funding, the selected projects will improve the economics of IGCC plants and promote the use of the Nation’s abundant coal resources to produce clean, secure, and affordable energy.
NOTE; There is additional funding projects listed in the area on the DOE main site. (Link)

 

12-30-2009

NEWS RELEASE: Proprietary Method CLEANS-UP WASTE WATER from OIL/GAS DRILLING Operations

Utilizing water reclamation technologies gleaned from the U.S. Military in combination with proven recycling dynamics, American Spirit Enterprises, Inc. (ASEI), an “Energy Conservation Product and Services Company” based in Vanburen County, Arkansas, has developed what Robert Reed, ASEI President/CEO, describes as “The optimum system to insure clean water quality.”

The problems associated with the waste water generated by drilling operations have become notorious in recent years. Not atypically, from 40,000 to 3 Million gallons of water laced with toxic ‘fracturing’ chemicals can be pumped into a single well and then sucked back out in the natural gas extraction process. One of the biggest problems has become how to manage or dispose of this contaminated water.

Waste water from gas drilling operations contains a vast mix of salts, earth material (dirt), heavy metals, hydrocarbons (methane, benzene), petro-chemicals and other known health hazards and carcinogens. Consequently, the means of disposing of this contaminated water is one of the most vital issues that local governments, citizens and the drilling companies must scrutinize to ensure community well-being.

“Typically, it has been the practice to either inject this waste water into non-producing wells or collect it in evaporation ponds,” Reed explained, noting that environmental concerns over the accumulation of pollutants are calling these standard practices into serious question.

“Some companies are attempting to clean the water by filters or by adding more chemicals. But none of these methods actually ‘clean’ the waste from the water,” Reed elaborated. “There have been some efforts to recycle, but these have proven cost prohibitive. Thereby the use of injection wells or waste holding ponds to dispose of the waste generated is still the norm.

“Due to the nature of these standard methods, very little if any recovery of resources has actually been done,” Reed continued. “Using mechanical devices, temperature controls and particulate settling rates we have designed a system which gathers, separates, and recycles the vast majority of the water waste from a drilling operation. The system components that we have designed to work together do NOT use chemicals, charcoal or filters that have to be disposed of, or add carbons to the waste stream,” Reed assured.

Promising to return up to 95% of the water normally contaminated in drilling operations to a quality of 0.08 ppm (parts per million) or less of contaminants, Reed says his company’s water reclamation system is energy efficient, cost effective and environmentally sound.

“The solids separated from the waste water can be disposed of in accordance with regulations, or further refined to recover the metals and other materials that have a viable market,” Reed said, emphasizing that the water which is cleaned by ASEI’s proprietary system may be re-utilized in the drilling system or, because the water successfully tests to purity standards for potable quality, utilized as fresh water.

For more information on ASEI’s waste water clean-up technology, contact Robert Reed at 501-745-6341, email at rreed@aseiar.com or visit the company site at www.aseiar.com


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