HOUSTON, Aug. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Glass
Technology Services – eCORP Stimulation Technologies, LLC
(ecorpStim) is pleased to announce the addition of the Glass
Technology Services (GTS), Sheffield,
UK, (www.glass-ts.com) to ecorpStim's clean shale
stimulation research and development consortium.
Scientists at GTS who have many years' experience in novel uses
of glass based materials will assist the consortium research team –
which includes doctors and scientists at Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu),
Rice University (www.rice.edu), the
Energy Safety Research Institute at Swansea University (www.swansea.ac.uk), and
its collaborative partner University of Grenoble
(www.grenoble-univ.fr) – in evaluating and furthering developments
in delivery of ecorpStim's non-water, chemical-free stimulation
technologies.
The addition of GTS to the ecorpStim research consortium is
important to furthering ecorpStim's goals of advancing proprietary
concepts for the use of silica, the raw material with which glass
is made, in the environmentally sustainable development of shale
hydrocarbon production.
One such patent pending technology involves the novel
combination of two components only – a stimulation fluid
(heptafluoropropane) and a proppant (mesoporous silica) – both of
which are approved in different forms of medical treatments.
ecorpStim's proprietary (patent pending) Pure Propane
Stimulation and Non-Flammable Propane Stimulation technologies are
being developed to reduce the environmental impacts associated with
shale development to being only clean and temporary use of the well
site. ecorpStim's shale stimulation designs and operating
practices constitute a revolutionary change for the industry.
Prof. Andrew R. Barron, Welch
Chair of Chemistry at Rice University
and Ser Cymru Chair at Swansea
describes the collaboration as "a perfect blend of partners to
create technology for the safe development of a sustainable,
affordable and secure energy future."
John Francis Thrash, M.D., CEO
of ecorpStim, observed that "The unique use of these two agents
that are approved for medical use helps to further advance our
goals of providing stimulation technologies for the extraction of
shale gas that are at the same time completely innocuous for human
health and fully respectful of the environment. Ecological shale
development can be expected to fuel massive job creation as much as
it can fuel the economy of the producing and exporting
country."
About Glass Technology Services Ltd (GTS) - based
in Sheffield UK, GTS is a
multi-disciplinary centre for testing, consultancy and research and
development - specialising in glass and related materials.
Accredited to ISO 9001, 14001 and 17025 standards, GTS provides a
wide range of services to food and drink manufacturers, the design
and construction industry, medical, pharmaceutical and biotech
sectors, energy and defense sectors across the UK and
internationally. For more information please visit
www.glass-ts.com, email enquiries@glass-ts.com or telephone
+44-(0)-114-290-1801.
About ecorpStim - The company ecorpStim (eCORP
Stimulation Technologies, LLC) was created in 2012 to provide
European countries, as well as those with limited water resources,
with alternatives to hydraulic fracturing, based on pure home grade
propane and without the use of chemicals, or on heptafluoropropane
(in the case of NFP Stimulation). www.ecorpstim.com
About eCORP International, LLC - Founded in 1978, eCORP
and its predecessor companies have extensive oil and gas experience
including underground natural gas storage, natural gas
transportation, enhanced oil recovery in conventional reservoirs
using propane and butane, exploration for and production of
conventional and unconventional (shale) reservoirs, electric power
generation and marketing of electricity and gas.
www.ecorpintl.com
MEDIA CONTACTS
Mark Stauss
eCORP
International, LLC
e-mail: info@ecorpStim.com
Phone: +1-713-520-0993
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