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New company has $5M plan for part of ERCO site

Rotex Energy plans to build oilfield waste plant near Bruderheim

Posted By Conal MacMillan / Record Staff

2008 10 28

A new oilfield waste disposal company is planning to invest $5 million in a site southeast of Bruderheim in order to take advantage of the increasing amount of waste being produced by oil and gas companies in the region.

Rotex Energy Ltd. is proposing to build an oilfield waste management plant in Alberta’s industrial heartland three kilometres outside the Town of Bruderheim. The site would take oilfield waste, heat it in vessels to separate its three components — oil, water and sludge — and then dispose of it either underground or through re-sale because it can’t be disposed of in conventional landfills….([1] Full Story