A trailer mounted mobile apparatus for dewatering and recovering formation sand from an oil-sand-water mixture contained in a remotely located field oil storage tank, said tank having a flanged fluid drain hole located at the bottom thereof, and a flanged fluid inlet hole located above said flanged fluid drain hole, said trailer mounted mobile apparatus towable by a truck, the trailer mounted mobile apparatus comprising:
- a. a furcated conduit adapted for connection to said tank flanged fluid drain hole, said furcated conduit having a first branch and a second branch, wherein said first branch comprises a first flanged end and a second flanged end, and wherein said second branch has a first end and a flanged second end;
- b. a high pressure water injection pipe for injecting high pressure water into said formation sand within the tank thereby forming a sluffy, said pipe insertable through said first branch of the furcated conduit and into the formation sand;
- c. means for withdrawing said slurry from the tank by way of said second branch of the furcated conduit;
- d. means for injecting treatment chemicals into the sluffy comprising an injection port and an injection conduit located on the second branch of the furcated conduit;
- e. means for dewatering the slurry said dewatering means located remote from the tank;
- f. means for transporting the slurry from the tank to the remote slurry dewatering means;
- g. means for recycling water separated from the slurry back into the tank for later collection and treatment;
- h. oil skimming means for recycling oil floating on the surface of the sluffy within the remote sluffy dewatering means back into the tank;
- and,
- i. forcing means for forcibly inserting said pipe into the formation sand;
- wherein said forcing means comprises:
- 1. a rectangular frame removeably mounted by mounting means to said second flanged end of the first branch of the furcated conduit, said rectangular frame comprising:
- i. a first channel-shaped half frame having a first back member, a first side member and a second side member;
- ii. a second channel-shaped half frame having a first back member, a first side member and a second side member;
- 2. a first protruding member fixed to the outside surface of the second side member of the second half-frame, wherein said first protruding member is perpendicular to the second side member of the second half frame, and wherein the first protruding member includes a first threaded aperture having an axis parallel to the second side member of the second-half frame and further wherein said axis intersects the first back member of the first half frame at a point adjacent to the intersection of the first half-frame first back member and first side member;
- 3. a second protruding member fixed to the outside surface of the second side member of the first-half frame, wherein said second protruding member is perpendicular to the second side member of the first half frame, and wherein the second protruding member includes a second threaded aperture having an axis parallel to the first side member of the second half-frame and further wherein said axis intersects the first back member of the second half-frame at a point adjacent to the intersection of the second half frame first back member and first side member;
- 4. a third threaded aperture located where the axis of the first threaded aperture intersects the first half-frame first back member, said third threaded aperture having a thread and diameter identical to the first threaded aperture;
- 5. a forth threaded aperture located where the axis of the second threaded aperture intersects the second half frame first back member, said forth threaded aperture having a thread and diameter identical to the second threaded aperture;
- 6. a first threaded rod having a length at least equal to the length of the first half frame first side member, said first threaded rod having a first end threadably engaged with the third aperture, the first threaded rod having a second end threadably engaged with the first aperture, so that when the first threaded rod is turned in a clock-wise direction the first back members of the first and second half-frames are drawn together and when the first threaded rod is turned in a counter-clockwise direction the first back members of the first and second half frames are moved apart;
- 7. a second threaded rod having a length at least equal to the length of the second half-frame first side member, said second threaded rod having a first end threadably engaged with the forth aperture, the second threaded rod having a second end threadably engaged with the second aperture, so that when the second threaded rod is turned in a clock-wise direction the first back members of the first and second half frames are drawn together and when the second threaded rod is turned in a counter-clockwise direction the first back members of the first and second half frames are moved apart;
- 8. a first handle fixed to the first end of the first threaded rod for turning the first threaded rod;
- and,
- 9. a second handle fixed to the first end of the second threaded rod for turning the second threaded rod.