Third Frontier grants Ohio University $1.45M for shale wastewater cleaning project

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Written by Tom Knox.

Ohio Third Frontier approved $1.45 million for Ohio University researchers to finalize and commercialize a method to treat produced well water on-site.

If the project is successful, natural gas drillers in the Utica shale play could have less reliance on oft-maligned underground injection wells, the lead researcher says.

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Originally published October 8, 2014.