LIKUID NANOTEK SL

Their core work

Likuid Nanotek is a Basque technology SME specialising in nanotechnology-based solutions for water treatment in the oil and gas industry. Their core work addresses the large volumes of contaminated water produced during oil and gas operations — developing processes that eliminate waste streams rather than simply relocating them. In CleanOil, which they coordinated, they built a cost-effective, no-waste nano-treatment system to reduce the sector's dependency on conventional water management. In INTEGROIL, they contributed to a broader decision-support platform for integrated water reuse at industrial sites.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both projects began in 2016, giving no meaningful before-and-after timeline to assess evolution within the H2020 record. The available data shows a consistent, narrow focus: nanotechnology applied to water contamination in the oil and gas sector across both project roles. Without post-2016 project data or keywords, it is not possible to determine whether the company has since broadened into other industrial water sectors or deepened its nanotech specialisation.

Based on only two projects from the same year, no reliable trend can be identified — a future collaborator should verify whether the company has pursued further EU or national projects beyond INTEGROIL and CleanOil.

How they like to work

Likuid Nanotek has demonstrated both leadership and partnership roles, suggesting flexibility rather than a fixed position in consortia. With just two projects and nine total partners across seven countries, their consortia are small-to-medium in scale, consistent with an SME that brings a specific technology rather than broad coordination capacity. Leading CleanOil under the SME Instrument Phase 2 — a competitive solo-company grant — signals strong confidence in their proprietary technology and ability to manage a project independently.

Likuid Nanotek has collaborated with nine partners spread across seven countries, a respectable geographic spread for a two-project SME. No repeated partner patterns are visible from this data, suggesting they build new consortia around project needs rather than relying on a fixed network.

What sets them apart

Likuid Nanotek sits at a specific and commercially valuable intersection: industrial nanotechnology and oil/gas water management — a combination that is not common among European SMEs. Being based in the Basque Country gives them proximity to a strong industrial and manufacturing ecosystem, as well as Spanish and French oil services companies. Their SME Instrument Phase 2 success (CleanOil) indicates the European Commission assessed their technology as commercially viable, which is meaningful due diligence shorthand for potential partners.

Highlights from their portfolio

• CleanOil
  Coordinated under the highly competitive SME Instrument Phase 2 (€971K), this project represents Likuid Nanotek's core proprietary technology — a nano-based, no-waste system to break the oil/gas sector's dependence on conventional water disposal.
• INTEGROIL
  Participation in this larger Innovation Action demonstrates the company's ability to integrate their technology into multi-partner, system-level industrial water reuse demonstrators beyond their own product.