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Petroleum waste management · Hydrocarbon remediation

Hydrocarbon contamination, treated on site

IEBCO treats petroleum waste, oily sludge and hydrocarbon-contaminated soil using biological methods — from sampling and site characterisation through field execution, monitoring and land restoration.

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The pit after the petroleum waste had been lifted out.

Capabilities

  1. Contamination
    A petroleum waste pit at a drilling site, before work began.
  2. Excavation
    An excavator lifting petroleum waste out of the pit.
  3. Biological treatment
    Petroleum waste spread and mixed across a prepared treatment bed.
  4. Restoration
    Saplings planted in rows across the restored works area.

Photographs from IEBCO’s project archive, showing the stages of the work.

Capabilities

Where we can take the work on

Seven areas in which IEBCO has executed projects. If your problem sits inside them, there is a field method for it.

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Project evidence

The conditions we were engaged to treat

These figures come from the initial site assessment at Samawah, Iraq — the state of the contamination when the work was handed over, not the outcome of treatment. They establish the scale of the job.

88,000 mg/kg

TPH, waste pit

at initial assessment

Samawah, Iraq – Block 12 · Sub-Contractor

195,000 mg/kg

TPH, flare pit

at initial assessment

Samawah, Iraq – Block 12 · Sub-Contractor

39 m

Pit opening, length

Samawah, Iraq – Block 12 · Sub-Contractor

3.5 m

Depth of oily sludge

Samawah, Iraq – Block 12 · Sub-Contractor

TPH was determined by GC-MS. That is an analytical method used on the project; it does not imply IEBCO owns the instrumentation.

Method

How the work runs

The sequence is consistent across remediation projects. What changes is the site, the hydrocarbon and how much of it there is.

  1. Site assessment

    Survey, sampling, and characterisation of contamination and volume.

  2. Excavation and handling

    Waste lifted from the pit and moved to a prepared treatment bed.

  3. Biological treatment

    Hydrocarbons broken down by degrading microorganisms.

  4. Monitoring

    Periodic sampling to measure how contamination is falling.

  5. Land restoration

    The site returned to usable condition and vegetation established.

Field execution

The work happens where the waste is

Treatment is carried out on the client’s own site, so petroleum waste does not have to be hauled to another facility. IEBCO brings its Portable Oil Waste Recovery & Bioremediation Package and its own hydrocarbon-degrading microbial product to the job.

  • Operations run inside the project site, with no off-site transfer of waste
  • Biological treatment of contaminated soil, oily sludge and oil-based drilling waste
  • Recovery of reusable oil and water from the waste stream
  • Restoration of the land once treatment is complete

Equipment

The process unit and its control cabin are mounted on a trailer and hauled to the site. That is what makes the work possible on locations with no fixed treatment facility of their own.

The portable petroleum waste treatment package mounted on a trailer: blue process vessels and a control cabin, coupled to a tractor unit and ready to move to site.
The portable package on its trailer, ready to move to site. Portable Oil Waste Recovery & Bioremediation Package

Featured project

Drilling waste remediation at Samawah, Iraq

A project in Block 12, Samawah, Iraq, on which IEBCO acted as sub-contractor — supplying the bioremediation agent and providing consulting and monitoring for the operation.

Samawah, Iraq – Block 12 IEBCO’s role: sub-contractor
The site’s petroleum waste pit before work began.
The pit after the petroleum waste had been lifted out.
Earthmoving plant at work on the project site.
Petroleum waste spread across a prepared treatment bed.
A dozer working a long windrow of dark petroleum waste on the treatment area.
The works area after the treatment stages were carried out.

Photographs from IEBCO’s project archive.

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Why IEBCO

What carries the work

  • The biological agent is ours

    The hydrocarbon-degrading microbial product is the company’s own, produced for the conditions of the project.

  • Executed in real site conditions

    The projects were run on drilling and industrial sites, not at laboratory scale.

  • Measurement-led

    Contamination is characterised before work starts and tracked by sampling and analysis as it proceeds.

  • Work beyond Iran

    Operations have been carried out outside Iran, including in Iraq.

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Tell us about your site

The type of contamination, the approximate volume of waste, and initial TPH data where you have it are enough for a first assessment.

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