Oil & Gas

Cut Costs. Boost Recovery. Stay Compliant.

Produced water treatment, enhanced oil recovery, and pipeline maintenance — all from one ultrafine bubble platform. Less chemistry, less downtime, lower operating costs.

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-40%
Viscosity Reduction
(Heavy Crude)
99.9%
Bacteria Elimination
(No Biocides Needed)
+30%
Oil-Water Separation
(Produced Water)
The Problem

Heavy Crude, Dirty Water, Costly Chemistry

Produced water is expensive to treat. Heavy crude won't flow without heat or chemicals. Biofilm clogs your pipes and forces shutdowns. Every workaround adds cost, complexity, and compliance risk.

The Solution

One Platform, Multiple Problems Solved

In published trials, hydrodynamic cavitation and ultrafine bubbles cut heavy-crude viscosity by up to 40% (reported range 33–84%), accelerated oil-water separation by ~30%, and destroyed 99.9% of pipe-clogging bacteria. We build the inline hardware behind those mechanisms.

Key Benefits

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Cleaner Produced Water, Lower Cost

Accelerate oil-water separation by 30% and meet discharge limits — without the chemical dosing, sludge disposal, and maintenance costs of conventional treatment.

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More Oil From Every Well

Peer-reviewed trials report heavy-crude viscosity cut by up to 40% (range 33–84%), improving flow without costly heating. The mechanism applies in both downhole EOR and surface processing.

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Eliminate Biofilm, Avoid Shutdowns

In published work, ozone ultrafine bubbles destroyed 99.9% of sulfate-reducing bacteria and their biofilm — reducing corrosion risk and unplanned downtime.

See It In Action. Real Installations.

Operator adjusting a control panel beside the injection line at a tank battery, with a pump skid in the foreground
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Setting the injection rate at the control panel

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What Would Less Chemistry and More Uptime Mean for Your Bottom Line?

Tell us about your operation — produced water volumes, crude type, and current treatment costs. We'll send you a custom ROI estimate in 48 hours.

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The Science Behind the Results

How It Works — With the Research to Back It Up

Produced water, heavy crude, biofilm, emulsions — every oil & gas operation faces the same cost drivers. Here's exactly how ultrafine bubble technology addresses each one, backed by peer-reviewed data.

Figures below are from independent, peer-reviewed studies unless marked KST field data.

Problem: Heavy Crude Is Too Expensive to Movekeyboard_arrow_down
The Problem: Heavy crude requires costly heating or dilution with lighter oil just to flow through pipelines. Long-chain hydrocarbons create high frictional resistance that eats into your margins.
What We Do: Hydrodynamic cavitation generates intense local energy that cracks heavy molecular chains. Published trials show viscosity reductions of 33–84% and an API gravity increase of 3%.
Askarian et al., 2017 Wan et al., 2019
Problem: You're Leaving Oil Behind in the Reservoirkeyboard_arrow_down
The Problem: Conventional water or gas flooding creates channels that bypass oil trapped in tight micropores. The result: you're extracting a fraction of what's actually there.
What We Do: CO₂ and N₂ ultrafine bubbles prevent gas channeling and penetrate low-permeability layers that standard injection misses. This improves sweep efficiency, increasing oil recovery by 17.6%.
Cai et al., 2024 Elnaggar et al., 2025
Problem: Produced Water Won't Separatekeyboard_arrow_down
The Problem: Tiny emulsified oil droplets (<20 μm) are extremely difficult to separate from saline produced water — especially on offshore platforms where space is limited.
What We Do: Ultrafine bubble flotation separates crude oil with 99% efficiency (residual content <4 mg/L), outperforming microbubble systems by 11% — in a fraction of the space.
Oliveira et al., 2017 Shen et al., 2022
Problem: Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Sands and Soilkeyboard_arrow_down
The Problem: Spills leave sticky hydrocarbon contamination on shorelines and in soil. Standard biological or chemical methods struggle to fully detach oil from sand grains.
What We Do: Self-collapsing ultrafine bubbles remove 99.8% of oil from sands. In contaminated soil, our technology detaches up to 94% of total petroleum hydrocarbons.
Agarwal et al., 2016 Sun et al., 2019 Chen et al., 2023
Problem: Asphaltenes Are Choking Your Reservoirkeyboard_arrow_down
The Problem: Asphaltene deposits clog reservoir pores and pipelines, reducing permeability and shifting rock surfaces to oil-wet states that kill production flow.
What We Do: Ultrafine bubbles act as carriers for nano-inhibitors, significantly delaying asphaltene precipitation. Micromodel work on nano-inhibitors shows improved oil recovery.
Shadervan et al., 2024 Pourkarimi et al., 2021
Problem: Sulfur Corrosion Is Damaging Your Equipmentkeyboard_arrow_down
The Problem: Sulfur impurities cause equipment corrosion and coking. Conventional purification for heavy oil fractions is complex, slow, and expensive.
What We Do: Our oxidative desulfurization process selectively targets sulfur bonds, reducing sulfur content from 3.35% to 2.87% in heavy fuel oil — protecting your equipment and improving product quality. Kuimov & Minkin, 2021