Ecosphere Technologies Announces Positive Field and Lab Results From Recycling Program for Newfield Exploration

STUART, FL--(Marketwire - January 22, 2009) - Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: ESPH), a diversified water engineering and services company, announces today the independent laboratory results from its Ecosphere Ozonix process being tested in the Woodford Shale for Newfield Exploration Company. Field tests were accomplished at Newfield Exploration Mid-Continent's Hargis-Witherspoon well site in Coalgate, Okla, on frac flowback water during actual well flowback conditions.

Ecosphere's CEO Patrick Haskell stated: "We are very pleased with our team and our equipment during their continuous operation in the field to recycle Newfield's flowback and produced water as well as supply them with our proprietary Ecos Brine to fracture their new wells. It is very gratifying to see our equipment operating at the well site and taking an industrial waste water product and recycling it in to a valuable asset (Ecos Brine) that the energy companies can use to frac new wells. When an energy producer such as Newfield can treat its frac flowback water at the well site and then have that clean water and clean brine in the near vicinity of the shale play to frac its next well, they are reducing their completion costs while at the same time recycling a vital resource. It is a major win-win situation for company and the environment."

Dennis McGuire, President of Ecosphere Energy Services, stated: "We would like to thank the completions team at Newfield Exploration for allowing Ecosphere the opportunity to prove that frac flowback can be recycled right at the well site and that the clean water and clean brine ( Ecos Brine) can be used to frac new wells."

John Ely, President and CEO of Ely and Assoc. and Vanguard Stimulation Services, stated: "Ecosphere's high volume mobile water treatment technologies represent a significant step change for the natural gas industry. Energy producers are under pressure to reduce well completion costs and increase each wells production while at the same time being environmentally responsible. Ecosphere's Ecos Brine crosslinks with the energy producer's frac fluids. To be able to recycle frac flowback and produced waters at the well site with a single piece of mobile equipment and then use the clean water or clean brine to frac new wells is nothing short of a revolutionary concept."

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About Ecosphere Technologies

Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: ESPH) is a diversified water engineering and services company primarily focused on the natural gas industry. The Company provides water-recycling services at the well site to provide clean water for energy companies to extract natural gas from unconventional shale plays. Ecosphere's mission is to identify, create and produce clean technologies that solve a significant industry challenge, improve the quality of life and the environment, and are economically viable. Ecosphere has an extensive portfolio of patented clean technologies that can be purchased and licensed for use in large-scale and sustainable applications across industries, nations and ecosystems. For more information, please visit: www.ecospheretech.com