Envorem has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Saudi Arabia-based Greenland Environmental Services to provide its innovative technology to help the Kingdom in its environmental efforts.

Envorem has developed an innovative new technology that uses a little-known property of water to process production sludge, cleaning the solids and recovering the entrained oil without generating emissions.

The technology combines established techniques with hydraulic shock and cavitation, where bubbles are created by the vapourisation of water, a phenomenon copied from the natural world.

Cavitation can be generated ultrasonically, electrically, or physically and is widely known as a parasitic effect that destroys propellers on ships and the impellers of pumps. The collapse of cavitation bubbles is so powerful it liberates metal fragments from the surfaces.

Envorem harnesses these forces to drive oil contamination out of sludge and solids using less than 10 per cent of the energy required for thermal treatment techniques.

Both Envorem and Greenland Environmental Services are building a roadmap for localisation to manufacture the recycling systems in Saudi Arabia to support the country’s Vision 2030, the Saudi Green Initiative, and Saudi Aramco’s In-Kingdom Total Value Add (iktva) programme.

Sustainability factors have become increasingly critical for Aramco, as it aims to balance profitability, environmental protection, and the growth and prosperity of the communities in which it operates. Through, iktva, Aramco aims to grow a localised manufacturing sector, increase global competitiveness and drive future prosperity within the Kingdom.