Drilling Water Recycling News on Environmental XPRT

Frac water recycling

GE (General Electric) have introduced a mobile evaporator which is specifically designed to help natural gas producers recycle untreated waters resulting from hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The evaporator is energy efficient, fully transportable, cost effective and will enable onsite frac water recycling. There are massive amounts of natural gas and oil buried deep below the Earth's surface in ...

Oct. 9, 2010

Structure and Applications of Drilling Mud Desander

The desander is the two-level solids control equipment used for drilling fluids treatment. As one of the indispensable and important devices for stabilizing and regulating those technical indicators of the drilling fluids, the drilling mud desander has also been extensively used in the purification of the ...

Jan. 12, 2015

(More oil and gas drillers turn to water recycling

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - When the rain stopped falling in Texas, the prairie grass yellowed, the soil cracked and oil drillers were confronted with a crisis. After years of easy access to cheap, plentiful water, the land they prized for its vast petroleum wealth was starting to dry up. At first, the drought that took hold a few years ago seemed to threaten the economic boom that arose from hydraulic ...

Nov. 11, 2013

By Associated Press

More oil and gas drillers turn to water recycling

When the rain stopped falling in Texas, the prairie grass yellowed, the soil cracked and oil drillers were confronted with a crisis. After years of easy access to cheap, plentiful water, the land they prized for its vast petroleum wealth was starting to dry up. At first, the drought that took hold a few years ago seemed to threaten the economic boom that arose from hydraulic fracturing, a ...

Nov. 11, 2013

By Associated Press

Chevron meets new, voluntary shale drilling rules

Chevron has become the first energy company to meet a new set of voluntary shale gas drilling standards that aim to go beyond existing state laws in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, the Pittsburgh-based Center for Sustainable Shale announced Thursday. The center is a partnership between major energy companies, environmental groups and charitable foundations. Its certification process ...

Sep. 18, 2014

By Associated Press

ES-KSN vertical cutting dryer used in drilling

ES-KSN cuttings dryer is about to be on Display in CIPPE 2014.You are very welcome to visit us at E2160! Xi’an KOSUN Machinery Co., Ltd.(KOSUN for short) would like to invite you to join them at CIPPE 2014, which is being held from Mar. 19th to 21st at the New China International Exhibition Center ...

Jan. 27, 2015

Kroff, Inc. to Offer Expertise on Safe Water Reuse in Marcellus Drilling at Pittsburgh Chemical Day

Kroff, Inc., one of the fastest-growing water treatment companies in the United States, is pleased to announce that Kevin Flaherty, account manager for Kroff Well Services (KWS), Inc., will serve as a featured speaker during the 45th Annual Pittsburgh ...

Sep. 11, 2012

By Kroff, Inc.

ProWater Expands Into Bakken Shale, Drills State of the Art Saltwater Disposal Well

Sustainable Environmental Technologies Corp.'s ("SET Corp") (OTCQB: SETS) (PINKSHEETS: SETS) wholly owned ProWater subsidiary has begun drilling saltwater disposal well (SWD) CL 11-2 in the midst of one of the Bakken Shale's hotbeds for new shale oil wells. CL 11-2 is the first in a ...

May 30, 2012

International Association of Drilling Contractors to Host Conference Addressing Environmental Impact

Improving environmental performance and the impact of shale gas exploration, along with other environmentally relevant topics to the oil and gas industry, will be discussed at IADC’s annual Environmental Conference and Exhibition, 8-9 April in New York City. A lineup of industry speakers will address new technologies and advances in emissions controls, water recycling and drilling waste ...

Mar. 29, 2013

By International Association Of Drilling Contractors

Recycle of Produced and Flowback Water in Eagle Ford Shale Texas Picks Up Momentum with Omni Water Solutions and Dow Water & Process Solutions

Together, Dow Water & Process Solutions (DW&PS), a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, and Omni Water Solutions have treated more than 245,000 barrels of flowback and produced water from Texas’ Eagle Ford ...

Nov. 19, 2013

By Dow Water & Process Solutions

EPA seeks more information from natural gas drilling operations to ensure safety of wastewater disposal

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today directed six natural gas drillers to disclose how and where the companies dispose of or recycle drilling process water in the region. EPA continues to work with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) to ensure that natural gas production takes place safely and responsibly. These actions are among the ongoing steps EPA is ...

May 12, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

GE to Help Natural Gas Producers Treat Shale Gas Frac Water at the Well Site - New Mobile Evaporator Enables Producers to Recycle Water, Meet New Discharge Regulations and Lower Costs

TREVOSE, Pa.- Further advancing a solution for unconventional gas production, GE (NYSE: GE) today introduced a mobile evaporator, specifically designed to help natural gas producers recycle untreated waters that result from the hydraulic fracturing process at the well site. GE’s new, completely mobilized evaporator is energy efficient, fully transportable, cost effective and will enable ...

Sep. 30, 2010

By GE Water & Process Technologies

Toward cheaper water treatment

Original story at MIT News Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” produces a lot of wastewater. Drilling one well requires millions of gallons of water that’s injected into the ground to loosen rocks and release oil. While some is reused, much of the produced water is discarded into deep injection wells, and ...

Jul. 15, 2015

By MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gas drillers draw less water, but concerns linger

The gas drilling industry in Pennsylvania is recycling more and more water and one river basin commission now reports drillers there are drawing less freshwater than in the past. Water use by the natural gas industry in the Susquehanna River Basin peaked at about 3.8 billion gallons in 2011 and that figure declined to about 3.1 billion gallons in 2013, Andrew J. Gavin, deputy executive director ...

Sep. 27, 2014

By Associated Press

Increasing water supplies - reuse of treated wastewater

Reusing wastewater, particularly for agricultural purposes, plays an increasingly important part in water management, particularly in areas of low rainfall. A recent study of the Apulia region in southern Italy shows that wastewater can be used to meet agricultural water needs. The Apulian water agency (AQP) runs the largest aqueduct system in Europe, importing water from neighbouring regions and ...

Nov. 12, 2008

By European Commission, Environment DG

Study finds contaminants in California public-water supplies

Nearly one-fifth of the raw groundwater used for public drinking water systems in California contains excessive levels of potentially toxic contaminants, according to a decade-long U.S. Geological Survey study that provides one of the first comprehensive looks at the health of California's public water supply and groundwater. One of the surprises in the study of 11,000 public supply wells ...

Jul. 15, 2015

By Associated Press

Sionix Corporation Signs Water Treatment Agreement in the Williston Basin of North Dakota

Sionix Corporation (OTCBB: SINX) ("Sionix" or the "Company"), a designer of patented water treatment systems, announced today that it has entered into a Water Treatment Agreement ("WTA") with McFall Incorporated, a Carnation, WA-based construction and logistics firm operating under a Master Service Agreement with a major oil and gas exploration and production company in the Williston Basin. ...

Mar. 5, 2012

By Sionix Corporation

R3 Fusion Selected to Demonstrate Frac Water Treatment Technology

R3 Fusion, Inc., a clean technology company based in Rensselaer Technology Park, announced that it has executed a contract to demonstrate its patented SPaCeR™ technology on the treatment of flowback water generated in hydraulic fracking operations. Unconventional gas reserves in shale deposits have greatly extended the fossil fuel reserves available to the ...

Apr. 2, 2012

By R3 Fusion

The North American Market for Produced Water Treatment Equipment

Until renewable, sustainable sources are fully developed, the demand for fossil fuels will continue to grow. According to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) most recent World Energy Outlook, the production of conventional crude oil, the largest single component of the global oil supply, will remain at current levels before declining slightly, to 68 million barrels per day, by 2035. To ...

Nov. 19, 2012

Global Resource Corporation Files Patents for Water Desalination and Purification

MORRISVILLE, NC - Global Resource Corp. (PINKSHEETS: GBRC), a developer of patented energy-efficient renewable microwave-based technologies for recycling tires, upgrading petroleum products and converting other materials to higher value hydrocarbon-based fuels or carbon materials, today announced the company has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the ...

Nov. 8, 2010

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