Contaminated Soil · Guide

Petroleum Contaminated Soil: What the Chemistry Does, and What It Does Not.

Every operator with a lease eventually has petroleum-contaminated soil: a flowline leak, a tank overflow, a pit closure. The options are dig and haul, or treat. Treating means releasing the hydrocarbon from the soil and letting the native microbes finish. Hasten Cleanse is a water-based concentrate that does the releasing and feeds the microbes, without adding any of its own. This page is the plain-language guide.

Release, then biodegrade. Surfactants free the oil from the soil; fatty acids feed the bugs that eat it.

No foreign culture. No added bacteria. The population already in your soil does the work.

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Treat or Haul

	Dig and haul	Treat in place or in a pile
What happens to the soil	Leaves the site as waste	Stays, oil released and biodegraded
Vapor during the work	Disturbed soil off-gasses	Suppressed by the product
Chemistry added	None	Water-based, non-hazardous, no added bacteria
Best for	Small volumes, hot spots, regulator preference	Larger volumes, lease spills, pits, piles

Your regulator and your consultant decide the path. We supply the chemistry and a treatability test for the treat option.

How Treatment Works

Spray or wet the soil with diluted Hasten Cleanse, 1:20.

Surfactants break the hydrocarbon from the soil particles; vapor is suppressed while you work.

Turn or till to distribute, in place or in the pile.

The fatty-acid base feeds the native microbes that degrade the released oil.

Repeat as the pile is worked. Sample per your consultant's plan.

What Hasten Cleanse does not do

It is not a solvent and not a caustic. It will not dissolve, melt, or strip material that is physically bonded or baked onto a surface: scale, rust, hardened deposits, coatings. It lifts hydrocarbons, oil, grease, crude, sludge, and paraffin, by emulsifying them, and it needs agitation, circulation, pressure, or heat to do that work. If your problem is a stuck-on solid rather than a hydrocarbon film or residue, tell us and we will say so.

Concentrate and Packaging

No added bacteria. Hasten Cleanse is a chemical, fatty acids and surfactants, with nothing alive in it. It does not introduce a culture that competes with or displaces the microbes already in your system. The fatty acids are food for the population you have.

No added bacteriaNothing in the pail is alive. Hasten Cleanse feeds the microbes you already have, in a treatment plant, a separator, or the soil, instead of competing with them.

Full concentrateSold as concentrate and diluted on site, 1:10 for heavy residue to 1:50 for light. Compare products by working gallons per drum, not by the drum.

No flash point, no placardsWater-based and non-flammable. Ships as standard freight in 5-gallon pails, 55-gallon drums, 275-gallon totes, and bulk. Gulf Coast delivery in one to two days.

Serving Operators and Contractors Across Texas and Louisiana

Standard freight from Houston, totes for site work.

HoustonPasadenaDeer ParkLa PorteBaytownChannelviewTexas CityBeaumontPort ArthurCorpus ChristiFreeportLake CharlesMidlandOdessa

Contaminated Soil Questions, Answered Straight

Does it work on old contamination?

It releases hydrocarbon that is still hydrocarbon. Weathered, heavily degraded material responds more slowly. Ask for a treatability test.

Any bacteria in it?

No. Native microbes do the biodegradation.

Will the regulator accept it?

That is between you, your consultant, and the regulator. We supply the SDS, constituent list, and TSCA status.

Flammable?

No.

What about metals or solvents in the soil?

Not treated by this product. Hydrocarbon only.