VitriTech is committed to being an environmentally friendly good neighbour and reducing the impact of our manufacturing process and products on our local communities and society. Our products have a direct contribution to reduce the environmental impact of our customers.
VitriReinforce is used to enhance reservoirs in the oil and gas industry. In addition to the production and monetary advantages, the environmental and sustainability benefits are:
Reducing the skin (damage of wellbore) and risk of uncontrolled spills from fractures to surface. Reinforcing the near wellbore area will reduce compaction and stresses due to wellbore collapse and mineral production. By creating a more even and uniform stress regime there will be less induced fractures as oil is drained. Mature oil fields leaking to the surface is a major concern in the industry.
Reducing chemical usage by reducing the need for workover, intervention and redrill operations associated with erosion, influxes of formation and wellbore collapse.
Prolonging lifetime of wellbore potentially lowers the number of wells needed in an oil field.
VitriSeal is under development with the intended purpose to create impermeable solutions. The potential benefits are:
Saving energy and chemicals used in the processing of the oil by lowering the water cut.
Reducing the amount of drilling fluid and possibly reducing the numbers of casing strings in a well by curing losses and stabilizing challenging formations in the overburden.
Reducing the amount of cement and mud pills due to failed leak-off tests.
Corglaes and its variants are calcium sodium phosphate glasses. It has the following environmental benefits:
It is biodegradable and leaves no residue after dissolution.
All of its components, typically sodium, calcium and phosphates are 100% biocompatible and environmentally benign.
Due to its antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties, it helps to reduce the risk of infections, hence the need of using antibiotics to fight them.
It has been subjected to a full toxicological assessment and regulatory review.
Quantities of ions released to the environment during application are considerably less than the EPA limits.
VitriTech uses processes in line with the British Glass decarbonisation roadmap; UK glass manufacturing sector decarbonisation roadmap to 2050. We believe that glass is a solution for a low-carbon economy and our specialist compositions make a significant contribution to this.
VitriTech is committed to continually examining each step of manufacturing to identify areas where we can implement the most sustainable practices.
Within our production facility, our ongoing projects to minimise our environmental impact include:
Closed loop processing of materials.
Researching options to utilise by-products from the process for use in other industries.
Investigating electric melting technologies to increase efficiencies.
Trialling new raw materials to identify opportunities to reduce losses.
Trialling renewable and recycled fuels for melting.
Exploring the use of secondary raw materials.
Cleaning waste water to be recycled and reused.
Capturing furnace emissions to be scrubbed or ideally reused in the process or by other manufacturing processes.
Reusing of packaging materials. Packing products are multiuse whenever possible.
