permian basin

MYCELX is bringing its water treatment technology to the Permian Basin. Shown is a 20,000 barrel-per-day MYCELX Advanced Coalescer system. A new water treatment technology born of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill is making its way to the Permian Basin. MYCELX founder Hal Alper developed the MYCELX polymer, a material that permanently and chemically bonds hydrocarbons on contact rather than simply filtering them. In 1994, he co-founded MYCELX Technologies with petroleum industry veteran John Mansfield Sr. The company has since grown from a single polymer innovation into a global water treatment