drilling waste Articles
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HD#9 - BioLogix in High Temp High TPH Environment - Case Study
Summary In the Summer of 2019, Delta Remediation was contracted to treat drilling waste and centrifuge cake that had been delivered to a treatment pad in Southern Alberta Canada. The materials were high inorganics which has begun to degrade causing an exothermic reaction with temperatures measured in excess of 45degrees which can be a limiting factor for microbial growth and survival. The ...
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5 Leading Drilling Waste Management Companies
Drill cutting waste management as a separate niche has gained a lot of traction in recent times. This is true because post Shale Revolution, the hunt for oil and gas is on the rise and with it drilling waste disposal has become quite important. According to the American Petroleum institute, “Approximately 1.21 barrels of drilling waste is produced for every foot drilled in US”. If ...
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Oil and Gas Development - Onshore Industry - Pollution Prevention Guidelines
Introduction Pollution Prevention Guidelines to provide technical advice and guidance to staff and consultants involved in pollution-related projects. The guidelines represent state-of-the-art thinking on how to reduce pollution emissions from the production process. In many cases, the guidelines provide numerical targets for reducing pollution, as well as maximum emissions ...
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Hydraulic properties of a sandy loam soil following spent drilling mud application on native prairie
Water-based drilling mud (WBM) systems are used by the petroleum industry during drilling of oil and natural gas wells. Provincial regulations in western Canada allow disposal of spent WBM on cropland and sometimes native prairie at low rates. There is concern, however, that application of drilling waste on native prairie in semiarid climates may alter soil properties, which may adversely affect ...
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Machining processes of tungsten Ⅱ
Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with the symbol W and atomic number 74. The most important properties of tungsten are high melting point and high density. Meanwhile, the hardness is high and its ductility is poor to other refractory metals. All the properties make tungsten metal hard to be machined, here we will introduce the machining process for tungsten tube & crucible, Plate, ...
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Proof That Bacteria Degrade Oil
There has been a lot of publicity and ‘noise’ around the ability of bacteria to degrade oil, especially following BP’s Gulf of Mexico incident. However little has been shown to prove that biological remediation is an effective means of treating oil contamination. Over many years CBIO have worked to develop a range of a microbial products that have proven to be able to ...
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How Sinopec Turns Truckloads of Drilling Mud into Profit
Discover how China's largest drilling company makes money from oily waste. Previously, Sinopec had to constantly move their highly contaminated drilling waste to a centralized treatment site and deal with demanding environmental regulations. Now, all oil waste is treated on-site, right where it is produced — resulting in sellable hydrocarbons, reusable water and clean solid effluent. ...
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VaCure Mercury stabilisation by Mobile Units
For metallic mercury separated from various different waste streams Spent catalyst from the oil & gas industry, spent activated carbon, residues from former chlorine-alkali production, drilling wastes, fluorescent lamps powder. They all have one thing in common: Elemental mercury is separated during thermal treatment. econ industries´ competence to provide solutions to deal with various ...
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Remediation of hydrocarbon contaminants from oil lagoons and refinery waste - case study
In 2007 econ delivered an indirectly heated thermal desorption plant to a client in Kuwait. The plant is de-signed to treat various types of waste with hydrocarbon contaminant content. In particular refinery waste, oil lagoons and down hole drilling waste. The aim is to recover the waste hydrocarbons from the soil/sand and remediate the lagoons of their contaminants. Due to the natural ...
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The Application of Waste Solids Management Vertical Cuttings Dryers as an integral element of a successful Solids Control System
In Elgin’s last White Paper, “Common Challenges Relative to the Use of Decanter Centrifuges for Barite Recovery in the Oil & Gas Industry,” a detailed discussion was offered about the complexities involved in achieving effective solids control when deploying a dual-centrifuge “barite recovery” system. As noted in that report, when centrifuges are properly used, ...
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Packaged Polymer Injection Dewatering System - Case Studies
Case Study Number 1 Industry: Oil & Gas, Mining and Civil Waste Management Application: Treatment of Waste Drilling Fluids for Recycling Location: Brisbane, Australia Configuration: 20’ Explosion Proof HMI Dewatering System with VFD Driven EE-1448HD Centrifuge. Objective: Wastewater Treatment Sludge Dewatering in Order to Facilitate Landfill Disposal or Reuse. Results: In the ...
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Avoiding Common Mud Mixing Mistakes
This January will mark 40 years of experience of working with drilling fluids and drilling fluids recycling equipment for this author, and yours truly could write a book on drilling fluids mixing errors made by both vertical and horizontal directional drilling contractors. Drilling contractors should expect a return on their investment in products such as soda ash, bentonite, polymers and ...
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Common challenges relative to the use of Decanter Centrifuges for barite recovery in the oil & gas industry
When centrifuges are properly deployed, they can have dramatic effects on drilling performance. In fact, without them, many of the advances made in drilling would not have been considered achievable. Classically, we believe that centrifuges can achieve two common goals: Reduce the content of drilled fines, specifically colloidal solids, and Perform barite recovery in order to reduce drilling ...
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Properties and Behavior of Inorganics in Contaminated Soil
Often, specific technologies may be ruled out, or the list of potential technologies may be immediately narrowed, on the basis of the presence or absence of one or more of the chemical groups. The relative amounts of each may tend to favor certain technologies. Metals may be found in the elemental form, but more often they are found as salts mixed in the soil. At the present time, treatment ...
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The Mixing Process - Case Study
Claytek operates several patented shear mixing systems, each of which can be adapted to the clients needs. In general, one system has a throughput of 25 m3/hr. Both portable or stationary options are ...
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Separation and recovery of oil from oily waste materials using anaerobic thermal desorption unit technology
RLC Technologies, Inc.’s Anaerobic Thermal Desorption Unit (ATDU) is an exsitu, non-incineration technology designed to separate hydrocarbons from various matrices including oilfield waste, soil, sludge, sand, filter-cake, tank and tanker bottoms, organic-based hazardous waste and contaminated soil in a non-oxidizing atmosphere without destroying the hydrocarbons. This paper briefly ...
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Veolia Environmental Services Construction and Demolition Waste Landfill, Quebec City, Canada – Case Study
Summary Biorem's biogas desulphurization product is providing very high removal efficiencies at a landfill site in Quebec. Despite the highly variable concentrations and low winter temperatures, the system has achieved an average removal efficiency of 97%, and has maintained outlet nydrogen sulphide concentration below target consistently. As a result, the customer has realized a significant ...
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Groundwater Exploration in South Sudan - Case Study
Purpose The Radler Foundation, Water Harvest International, and East African Ministries are humanitarian organizations working to bring water wells to villages in rural areas of Africa. In February 2015, they wanted better information about where to drill a well in the Yeri Mozo Village in South Sudan in order to provide access to safe and clean water—and improve the quality of ...
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Drilling oil recovery from drill cuttings - Case study
Recovery of drilling oil and drilling fluids from different drill cuttings Drill cuttings are an increasing waste stream worldwide, econ industries addressed the challenge by developing a process that cleans the waste and at the same time recovers valuable drilling oil. The VacuDry® plant started the successful processing of drill cuttings in autumn 2013. Our client, a medium-sized ...
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Principles of HDD Solids Control & Buyers Guide
Relative to the use of drilling fluids within the oil & gas industry, the use of drilling fluids within the horizontal directional drilling (“HDD”) industry, is new. As the use of HDD technology did not become mainstream until the 1980’s, it took another decade before drillers started to consider the use of basic drilling fluids. Even today, the amount of research and ...
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