Written By: John Logar

Abanaki’s Model 8 Oil Skimmer helps companies remove oil and other hydrocarbons from fracking wastewater. Generally, the flowback from fracking sites is loaded into tankers and transported to a central site where the water is drained into large tanks for treatment. The Model 8 Oil Skimmer is designed to remove oil and other hydrocarbons from the fracking wastewater before filtration and the final stage of disposal into the sewer system. Oil skimmers work by making use of the differences in specific gravity and surface tension between oil and water. These physical characteristics allow the belts to attract oil and other floating hydrocarbon liquids from the surface of the frac fluid. An oil skimmer requires very little oversight, no maintenance, and is a very cost effective solution due to low energy requirements. The Model 8 may be your answer to remove unwanted oil from fracking wastewater.