# Sky Quarry **Type:** venture **Status:** Draft **Confidence:** Medium **Focus:** asphalt shingle recycling, ECOSolv, heavy oil extraction, oil sands, circular economy, bitumen recovery **Stage:** Public (NASDAQ: SKYQ); commercializing; PR Spring permit application filed June 2025 **Location:** Woods Cross, UT (HQ); PR Spring facility in eastern Utah **Updated:** 2026-06-19 **Domain:** energy, materials-mfg **Region:** Uintah County, UT (PR Spring); Woods Cross, UT (HQ) **Needs-reviewed:** 2026-06-19 **Hero:** https://picsum.photos/seed/sky-quarry-manufacturing-2026/1600/1100 **Pull:** *Used asphalt shingles are 30% bitumen by weight — Sky Quarry's ECOSolv process recovers 95% of the material and returns it to road and industrial use, tackling one of the larger ignored construction waste streams.* **Relates:** cites [Official Website: Sky Quarry](sky-quarry-official-website.md) ## Summary Sky Quarry (NASDAQ: SKYQ) is a publicly traded Utah company commercializing solvent-based recovery of bitumen and heavy oil from two feedstocks: used asphalt shingles and Utah oil sands at the PR Spring deposit in eastern Utah. Headquartered in Woods Cross with a facility site near Price in eastern Utah, Sky Quarry uses its proprietary ECOSolv solvent-extraction process, which claims 95% material recovery and 99% solvent recycling. The company filed a recycling permit application for the PR Spring integrated facility in June 2025. The facility is designed to process 2,000 barrels per day, with projected recovery of approximately 10 million barrels over 15 years from combined oil sands and recycled shingle processing. Sky Quarry has a dual-mission character that creates genuine tension: the asphalt shingle recycling side is a credible circular-economy play addressing a largely neglected construction waste stream, while the oil sands extraction side adds new fossil fuel production to the picture. ## Impact The shingle recycling case is concrete: over 15 million tons of used asphalt shingles are discarded annually in the United States. Most go to landfill despite being roughly 30% bitumen by weight, mixed with fiberglass, mineral granules, and additives. Extracting that bitumen is a genuine circular-economy opportunity — recovering a fossil-derived product already extracted and refined, rather than extracting it again from the ground. The oil sands extraction side of the business reduces the net-positive framing: extracting fresh heavy oil from PR Spring's tar sands is additional fossil fuel production, not circular recovery. The two operations coexist at the same facility for economic reasons — the oil sands processing is the revenue anchor while shingle recycling volumes build. ## What They Are Building Sky Quarry is building the PR Spring integrated facility using its ECOSolv solvent-extraction process. ECOSolv dissolves bitumen from both shingle feedstocks and oil sands material using a recoverable solvent, separating the bitumen from fiber, aggregate, and mineral matrix. The solvent is then recovered and recycled back into the process. The technical challenge is handling heterogeneous feedstocks — used shingles vary significantly by manufacturer, age, and regional formulation — while maintaining solvent recovery rates high enough for the economics to work. ## What They Need Now Chemical and process engineers interested in circular-economy applications; environmental and permitting specialists familiar with Utah's oil and gas regulatory environment; and investor relations and public market communications support for a small-cap resource company navigating both a new permit process and an evolving climate-disclosure environment. ## Who Could Help State and county permitting contacts in Utah's oil and gas regulatory structure; asphalt shingle manufacturers and waste management companies willing to partner on feedstock supply chains; roofing industry associations that could structure take-back programs; and road construction OEMs that could close-loop recovered bitumen directly into paving operations. ## Utah Context PR Spring sits in the Uinta Basin in eastern Utah — the same region that contains Utah's oil sands and some of its most contested energy development history. Utah's regulatory environment for oil and gas is generally permissive, but social license for oil sands extraction in the basin has a fraught history that predates Sky Quarry. The Woods Cross headquarters places the company in the North Salt Lake / Davis County industrial corridor adjacent to refineries and heavy industry — appropriate for a company whose products are bitumen and road-grade asphalt. ## Evidence - [Official Website: Sky Quarry](sky-quarry-official-website.md) ## See Also - [Ionic MT](ionic-mt.md) — another Utah materials company with a domestic supply chain thesis and an eastern Utah resource base. ## Open Questions - Has the PR Spring recycling permit been approved since the June 2025 application? - What are ECOSolv's independently verified material recovery and solvent recycling rates at operational scale, as opposed to company-reported figures? - How does the oil sands extraction volume compare to the shingle recycling volume in the facility design, and what is the revenue split? - What is the current share float, market cap, and runway for a small-cap public company at this development stage? - Does Sky Quarry have binding shingle feedstock supply agreements, or is the waste supply chain still uncontracted? - The placeholder hero should be replaced with a cleared facility or process image when rights are confirmed.