History of Bio-Stic.

In 1992 at a remote oilfield site in Northwest New Mexico where I was the production supervisor, Alpha Environmental contacted my company about a Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery project. The project was successful and I learned about the “small” world. Not only did our oil production increase, but amazingly our produced water quality improved. During this time period I was told stories about how the biocatalyst fluid that was being injected into our oil reservoir was also being introduced into a polluted river in South Africa.

This river was being contaminated by waste being discharged from a municipal waste water treatment plant. As the river was being cleaned up, the E.coli bacteria levels were almost completely eliminated.

Fast forward several years, and I learned about the hog farm industry in the Oklahoma panhandle and Southwest Kansas. I was told about their many environmental problems. I thought to myself, could the microbial fluid produced from the biocatalyst generator help eliminate some of these problems? At the time our biocatalyst generator was massive in size. 30 inches in diameter and 12 foot in height, and not easily put just anywhere. The problem was could we make smaller units.

After visits with Alpha Environmentals’ personnel, I was given the green light to look for a solution to reducing its size. Sometime later I was assisting a friend install slotted PVC pipe at a contaminated gasoline site. Could this PVC pipe be the answer to the biocatalyst generator? I took a small piece of this slotted PVC pipe and added our proprietary dry material, and finished it off with a couple caps.

It was time to test, so we put the test apparatus into a small container of water for a couple of weeks.  We then sent off a sample of water for some specialty testing. The results came back great. The idea became a reality, and Bio-Stic LLC was born.