We bring our own equipment, our own crew, and our own engineering to your site, and turn your waste stream into clean, reusable water and dry, stackable solids. One team owns the whole job. You get one less problem on your plate.
What you get
Stage 3 doesn't drop off equipment and leave. One team owns the job from the first call to the final haul-off. Here's what you walk away with.
Your wastewater comes in contaminated. It leaves treated, clean enough to reuse on site, discharge where permitted, or haul off at a fraction of the original volume. Less replacement fluid, fewer trucks, lower disposal cost.
We separate and dewater your waste solids to a dry, load-ready state, lighter to haul, cheaper to dispose of, and ready to pass the disposal test. What used to fill trucks and tailings ponds leaves as a clean, stackable pile.
Compact, self-contained, modular systems fit the site you already have, no lagoons, no pits, no separate equipment yard, and scale up or down to the volume in front of you. They move when you do, even into tight urban sites.
Engineering, lab testing, custom fabrication, mobilization, field operators, and remote monitoring all come through one team, not a stack of vendors. Our people run and tune the system on location, service it before it fails, and keep it inside spec so your job keeps moving. You don't manage the equipment. We do.
Tell us what you're working with: the slurry, the volume, the site, and what you need back. From there it's on us. We engineer the system, prove it in the lab, and rig up on your schedule. Then our operators run and tune it on site, from the first load to the last haul-off. We don't hand you off to anyone. One team owns the whole job.
S3S isn't a rental yard, and we're not an equipment dealer. We engineer the system around your job, put our own people on it, and stay until the last load is hauled off.
The lowest bid isn't where we compete. Total project cost is. We cut diesel, trucking, waste haul-off, and downtime, so the job often costs less even when our line item isn't the cheapest. We run one of the largest fleets on the continent, so the right machine is always ready with a backup behind it, and when a job needs something that doesn't exist yet, we build it ourselves.
A Midland Basin operator cut diesel use 43% and saved $39,000 on every well after putting our system on first-pass solids removal.
On a biosolids lagoon, we turned sludge into dry, stackable solids that passed every paint-filter test, and sent clean water back to the lagoon.
Three decades and more than 7,500 projects across oil and gas, construction, industrial, municipal, and dredging. We've run into your problem before.
For drilling operators and completions teams. Solids control and fluid management that keeps your mud in spec and your days-on-well down, from a single rig to a whole basin. Whatever the vertical, we know it and show up ready to run.
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In most cases, not right away. The equipment is more complex to operate than it appears. If your team wants to learn it, we'll train them on site until they're proficient. More often, clients see what's involved and prefer to leave operation to our crews.
The centrifuge isn't the hard part. Keeping it in spec, servicing it before it fails, and acting on the data is, and that's what our crews deliver. Rent equipment elsewhere and that responsibility falls to you.
We likely have. And when a job is new to one crew, we bring in the specialists who do it day in and day out. Across thousands of projects in five verticals, we've encountered your challenge before.
Our systems are modular: we add units for higher volume or scale down for less. To be candid, very short or very small jobs can be outweighed by mobilization and trucking costs. Share the scope and we'll give you a straight assessment.
To whatever specification you require. Clean enough to reuse on site, discharge to sewer where permitted, or meet your disposal criteria. You set the target, we meet it.
In the Bakken, S3S has held 75 to 80% market share for the better part of a decade. In a business where 15% makes you the leader, nobody else in solids control has come close.
When a customer calls, we can be rigged up and running on location inside a day. That comes from staging ready equipment across the continent and servicing it before it's needed, not after.
Every machine runs with vibration sensors and remote monitoring, and our crews service on a fixed schedule instead of running gear into the ground. If a unit drifts out of spec, we swap it before it costs you a day.
Hundreds of centrifuges, shakers, and dewatering tanks, sized for anything from a single backyard to a full drilling program. The right unit is ready, and the backup is already behind it.
We dewatered an entire industrial pond on a working refinery site, returned clean water, and hauled off dry, stackable solids. First-of-its-kind for the crew, and it ran clean.
On a lot of jobs we cut the volume hauled off by roughly half: fewer trucks on the road, far less material buried. We're a separation company, but we're an environmental one too.
S3S turns high-volume slurry, drilling fluid, and wastewater into clean water and dry solids, with a smaller footprint, fewer trucks, and one team that owns the whole job.
Less replacement fluid. Less haul-off. Less coordination. More control over what leaves your site.
Oil and gas, construction, industrial, dredging, and municipal. One platform, deployed across North America.
