Abstract: An oil reclamation process wherein oil containing liquid contaminants, principally water, in both a free and dissolved state is passed through a vessel maintained under vacuum where it passes over a dispersing material to increase its surface area and such exposure to vacuum within the vessel increases the vapor pressure of the water contained in the oil such that steam is generated through evaporation, the decontaminated oil and the steam generated then being separately removed from the vessel where the steam is then condensed and the water so produced is discharged to waste.