Raptor Recovery

What Raptor Recovery does

Raptor Recovery LLC is a Fort Worth, Texas-based private company founded in 2023 that provides water treatment and recycling services to oil and gas operators across Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Alberta. The company focuses on treating and reusing produced water and hydraulic fracturing flowback water, offering two core services: Water Treating (produced-water treatment, impurity removal, TDS/hardness reduction, flowback management) and Water Recycling (a multi-stage process that produces reusable water at under 1000 ppm).

The technical foundation is a proprietary recycling architecture combining forward osmosis (FO) with reverse osmosis (ROx) and patented microfibre technology for iron and sulfate removal; the company states it can handle up to 10,000 barrels per day of flow influent at 70–85% recovery. Raptor Recovery is led by oilfield veterans from Iron Horse Chemicals LLC (Joel Gustus, Darryl Wiebe) and from major service companies including Baker Hughes, Halliburton, and Smart Chemical Solutions (Phillip Bales, COO; Matt Harrington, Senior Technical Manager).

Revenue is generated through customized, quote-based service engagements sold directly to E&P operators; the company does not disclose pricing, contracts, or revenue, and operates with a 1–10 employee footprint. Its sister-company relationship with Iron Horse Chemicals LLC functions as a built-in commercial channel, and the company's go-to-market is sales-led with relationship-based selling emphasized.

Name

Raptor Recovery

Legal name

Raptor Recovery LLC

Website

https://raptorrecovery.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Raptor Recovery LLC provides proprietary water treatment and recycling services for oil and gas operators in the US and Canada, using a multi-stage process with patented microfibre technology to reuse produced water and flowback.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Oilfield Water Management

NAICS

Sewage Treatment Facilities (22132)

SIC

Oil & Gas Field Machinery & Equipment (3533)

akta.pro primary industry

Produced Water & Upstream Water Management (EUALAAAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Produced Water Management & Treatment (Handling, Disposal, Reuse) (EUAAAAAN)

Keywords

• Produced water treatment
• Water recycling services
• Oilfield water management
• Hydraulic fracturing water
• Industrial water treatment

Headquarters

HQ city

Fort Worth

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Water Treating Services: Providing water treating services focused on minimizing environmental impact while maximizing resource efficiency for oil and gas operations. Services include produced water treatment and flowback water management.
2. Water Recycling Services: Revolutionary water recycling using a cutting-edge 5-stage (6-stage in detailed description) process to recycle produced water for perpetual reuse in drilling and fracturing programs. Customers save on trucking, manpower, and disposal fees.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Raptor Recovery provides water treatment and recycling services for the oil and gas industry, treating produced water and hydraulic fracturing flowback water through a proprietary multi-stage process. The company enables oil and gas operators to perpetually reuse their water in drilling and fracturing programs while reducing fresh water consumption, trucking, and disposal costs.

Product overview

Raptor Recovery offers two core service offerings for the oil and gas industry: Water Treating and Water Recycling. Water Treating provides tailored solutions for produced water treatment and flowback water management, while Water Recycling employs a proprietary 5-stage process with patented microfibre technology to treat and recycle produced water. The services are designed to work together, enabling oil and gas operators to perpetually reuse their water in drilling and fracturing programs while reducing costs and environmental impact.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Water Treating Water treating services for the oil and gas industry, focusing on produced water and hydraulic fracturing flowback water treatment. Includes produced water treatment for impurity removal and TDS/hardness reduction, flowback water management, and recycling and reuse solutions for oil and gas operators.
• Water Recycling A multi-stage water recycling process for produced water that employs patented microfibre technology. The process removes free solids, organic material, iron and SO4, uses forward osmosis with ROx concentrate for waste disposal, and produces recycled water at less than 1000 ppm concentration for reuse in oil and gas drilling and fracturing operations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Handles up to 10,000 barrels per day of flow influent
• +4 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Iron Horse Chemicals LLCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIron Horse Chemicals LLC is a sister company and strategic partner to Raptor Recovery. Both companies were co-founded by Joel Gustus and share leadership, including Joel Gustus as President of Iron Horse Chemicals LLC and Darryl Wiebe as CEO. The companies work together to provide comprehensive oilfield chemical solutions and water management services to the oil and gas industry. Iron Horse focuses on specialty chemicals while Raptor Recovery handles water treating and recycling.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Select Water Solutions: One of the largest pure-play providers of water management and recycling services for U.S. oil and gas operators, with deep Permian and other-basin exposure. Direct overlap with Raptor Recovery in produced-water handling, recycling, and saltwater disposal — but at vastly larger scale, including Solaris Water Midstream assets.
• NGL Energy Partners: Midstream master limited partnership with a Water Solutions segment covering produced-water gathering, transportation, and recycling for E&P operators. Overlapping customer base with Raptor Recovery and similar service-based revenue model.
• Aquatech International: Industrial water-treatment technology and service company with explicit oil-and-gas produced-water treatment capability, including desalination and reuse. Competes on the same process-technology axis as Raptor Recovery's FO/ROx and membrane-based platform.
• WaterBridge NDB: Large Permian/Delaware-focused produced-water gathering and disposal network that has expanded into recycling. Operates the asset class (produced water infrastructure) that Raptor Recovery sells services into, with comparable target customers and similar recycling business model.
• Aris Water Solutions: Public Permian-focused produced-water infrastructure and recycling company, providing gathering, recycling, and reuse for E&P operators. Closest direct comparison to Raptor Recovery's 6-stage recycling process, with similar customer profile (oil and gas operators) and recycling-for-reuse model.

Broad incumbents

• Clean Harbors: Environmental and industrial services company with waste-water treatment, recycling, and disposal capability that extends to oil and gas customers. Larger and broader than Raptor Recovery, but pursues the same industrial produced-water and wastewater treatment market.
• Halliburton Energy Services: Global oilfield services giant whose Water & Fluids Solutions line includes produced-water and fracturing fluids management for operators. Overlap is partial — Halliburton is a broad incumbent serving all of E&P — but its water-management offering competes head-on for the same buyers Raptor Recovery targets.
• SLB (Schlumberger): Global energy-services incumbent with a meaningful produced-water and water-management capability acquired and built through its Completions and Well Construction segments. Serves the same operator procurement process Raptor Recovery competes in, but as part of a much broader portfolio.
• Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions: Global industrial water-technology supplier with oil-and-gas produced-water treatment references, including desalination and reuse. Indirect competitor: typically involved on larger, multi-site engagements, but pursues the same upstream produced-water reuse use case as Raptor Recovery.

Emerging players

• SOLV Energy (formerly BP Products North America) and similar produced-water recyclers: Adjacent emerging niche players offering produced-water recycling and oil-recovery services to oil and gas operators. SOLV focuses more on chem/energy services broadly but its oilfield services overlap positions it as a smaller-scale comparable for Raptor Recovery's service model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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