Treating Produced Water Articles

Creating a diversion - creating a bypass to treat produced water

ProblemAn oil company needed to repair its water treatment equipment without curtailing oil production. SolutionCETCO Oilfield Services created a bypass that allowed the oil company to continue operations during repairs. Here’s what we did: Identified an accessible section of piping upstream of the equipment to be repaired. Made 4 hot-tap ...

Mar. 24, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

Validation of Salt Water Disposal Well Treatment Plants with Handheld Oil in Water Sample Analyzer

Salt Water Disposal (SWD) well operators often dispose a substantial volume of oil inadvertently when injecting salt water, thereby losing the opportunity to sell the oil on the market and potentially reducing the ability to inject water in the well. Injection facilities are typically operated with minimal instrumentation or system optimization, which means the operators don't know how much, or ...

Jan. 15, 2018

By Turner Designs Hydrocarbon Instruments, Inc.

Toxicity assessment of oil field produced water treated by evaporative processes to produce water to irrigation

During the productive life of an oil well, a high quantity of produced water is extracted together with the oil, and it may achieve up to 99% in the end of the well's economical life. Desalination is one of mankind's earliest forms of saline water treatment, and nowadays, it is still a common process used throughout the world. A single-effect mechanical vapor compression (MVC) process was tested. ...

Aug. 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing

Test & treat - treating hydrostatic test water

A pipeline company in Iowa conducted a hydrostatic test of its pipeline, producing 39,000 barrels of fluid for treatment. The hydrostatic test water was to be discharged in accordance with a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. The permit required that discharge of the treated test water could not exceed a period of 14 days from the date the test was conducted. Fluid ...

Mar. 27, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

Produced Water Case Study

Challenge Managing the increasing volumes of produced water associated with oil & gas production as well as sourcing water for operations is becoming more challenging for E&P companies. Handling oily wastewaters with high and variable contents of O&G and TSS requires complex and costly treatment trains with conventional technologies. To evaluate akvoFloat ’s ...

Aug. 16, 2016

By akvola Technologies

Shell - produced water treatment

Client: Shell Auk CETCO Oilfield Services mobilised an 18” diameter twin vessel CrudeSep® test skid and a RFV 3000 adsorption skid comprising of dual sock filter pods and two vessels holding adsorption media canisters. The CETCO equipment was tied in downstream of the existing WEMCO and hydrocylones and successfully treated produced water at a variety of rates. Samples were taken from a variety ...

Mar. 25, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

Water treatment technology for produced water

Large amounts of produced water are generated during oil and gas production. Produced water, as it is known in the oil industry, is briny fluid trapped in the rock of oil reservoirs. The objective of this study was to test produced waters from a Montana USA oilfield using a mobile station to design a plant to cost efficiently treat the produced water for agricultural irrigation. We used combined ...

Nov. 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing

How to Treat Water and Remove Arsenic

Arsenic is a naturally occurring element from the earth’s crust. Around the world, many countries have groundwater that is steeped in arsenic. Until recently, governments haven’t realized just how bad arsenic was for people, even in minute concentrations. In 2001, the US Environmental Protection Agency felt it necessary to lower the drinking water arsenic standard from 50 parts ...

Jul. 25, 2017

By Adedge Water Technologies, LLC

Treating Industrial Water with Membrane Technology

A variety of industries are finding that it makes sense to reevaluate the way they treat industrial process water, both to improve the quality of their products and increase the efficiency of their processes. Purification systems utilizing crossflow membrane filtration, such as reverse osmosis (RO), nanofiltration (NF) or ultrafiltration (UF) can be a good alternative to traditional filtration ...

Jan. 1, 1995

A pilot study of a subsurface-flow constructed wetland treating membrane concentrate produced from reclaimed water

A pilot study was conducted for 7 months for the City of Oxnard, California, on the use of constructed wetlands to treat concentrate produced by microfiltration and reverse osmosis (RO) of reclaimed wastewater. The treatment performance of a transportable subsurface-flow wetland was investigated by monitoring various forms of nitrogen, orthophosphate, oxygen demand, organic carbon, and selenium. ...

Jul. 16, 2015

By IWA Publishing

<italic>In vivo</italic> genotoxicity of treated water containing the cylindrospermopsin-producer <italic>Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii</italic>

In vivo genotoxicity of treated water containing the cylindrospermopsin-producer Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii

Cylindrospermopsin (CYN) is an alkaloid commonly produced by some cyanobacteria that has been implicated in outbreaks of human illness. The aim of this study was to investigate the genotoxicity of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii cellular content (including CYN) and its byproducts resulting from chlorination during water treatment. DNA damage in blood and liver cells was analysed by the comet ...

Sep. 25, 2014

By IWA Publishing

RO Feedwater: Treat It Right

Summary Crossflow membrane filtration systems, such as reverse osmosis (RO), nanofiltration (NF) or ultrafiltration (UF), are good alternatives to traditional filtration and chemical treatment. However, to get the best performance from them, careful attention must be paid to feedwater conditions. Pretreating feedwater can lengthen the life of membrane elements, improve the quality of the ...

Apr. 1, 1995

By SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions (formerly GE Water & Process Technologies)

Tofu Producer Wastewater Treatment

Industrial Wastewater Treatment Success Stories Tofu Producer Waste Water Treatment Astounding Results of Tofu Producer Jar Test A sample of Tofu ...

Mar. 30, 2009

By Integrated Engineers Inc.

Harpersville town water treated with eco-friendly scalewatcher

The population of the small Alabama town of Harpersville is enjoying improved water quality, with less limescale corroding pipework and water-fed equipment, following the installation of the award-winning ScalewatcherÒ computerized, electronic water conditioner. Within two weeks of the industrial Scalewatcher system being installed, local residents were contacting Harpersville Water ...

Dec. 21, 2011

By Scalewatcher North America Inc.

Minnesota makeover - treating hydrostatic test water

A pipeline company in Minnesota conducted a hydrostatic test of its pipeline, producing approximately 320,000 barrels of fluid for treatment. Fluid was pumped from the pipeline into three storage tanks located at the pipeline’s tank farm. Fluid was then pumped from the storage tanks directly to CETCO Oilfield Services onsite equipment. On average, CETCO Oilfield Services treated the fluid at a ...

Mar. 27, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

BP Petrojarl Foinhaven - produced water treatment

Client: BP/PGS Petrojarl Foinaven - UK CETCO were approached by BP/PGS regarding potential fluids handling problems on the Petrojarl Foinaven FPSO when bringing on two new wells during September 2001. CETCO mobilised a RFV 4000 DF Adsorption Skid containing CETCO’s patented CrudeSorb® media to treat the oily water phase of the well returns for discharge directly overboard. During a two week ...

Mar. 24, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

Oil Field Produce Waste Water Treatment

Oily Waste Produce Water Treatment Oil Field Produce Waste Water Treatment Testing Produce Water Oil Field Production The oil industry has been ...

Jan. 30, 2009

By Integrated Engineers Inc.

Cities are finally treating water as a resource, not a nuisance

From Houston to Melbourne, the surprising ways urban areas are dealing with water woes Memorial Day barbecues and parades were thwarted this year in Houston when a massive storm dumped more than 10 inches of rain in two days, creating a Waterworld of flooded freeways, cars, houses and businesses, leaving several people dead and hundreds in need of rescue. ...

Sep. 1, 2015

By Ensia

Oil field Produce Water Treatment Case Study

Produce Water Treatment Oil Drilling Produce Water Treatment Produce Water Produce water is generated from the oil field production of natural gas and ...

Jan. 16, 2009

By Integrated Engineers Inc.

Talisman - produced water treatment to <30 ppm

Client: Talisman Buchan Alpha - UK Following successful trial work, CETCO supplied a single 48” CrudeSep® vessel skid to treat produced water for discharge overboard. Talisman then purchased a second 48” CrudeSep vessel skid to further reduce its overboard oil in water discharges in line with regulations. CETCO’s CrudeSep system treated approximately 12,000 bbls/d of produced water on the Buchan ...

Mar. 25, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

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