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Frac Water Recycling White Paper
Balancing the risk of well damage with the economic benefits of frac wastewater reuse can be difficult. In conjunction with Environmental Daily Advisor, Anguil Aqua Systems has sponsored a detailed report which answers some of the tough questions about fracking and water use. Minimizing Operator Risks While Implementing a Frac Water Recycling Program Why Recycle? Why isn't recycling a ...
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Water Use in the U.S. Fracking Boom
A pumpjack removes oil in West Texas’ Permian Basin. Fracking, a method of loosening oil and gas from rock, is using up large amounts of fresh water in the productive region. Water reuse and desalination stand to decrease depletion of freshwater resources The Permian sedimentary basin, which covers much of dry West Texas and overlaps the southeastern corner of New Mexico, is ...
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Electrical control valve actuators on oil and gas production separators
Overview Wherever there are oil and gas production facilities there is one specific piece of equipment that is almost always present, the separator. Depending on the nature of the reservoir, oil, gas and water are present in varying proportions. The first stage of any hydrocarbon production process once the product has started to flow from the well is to separate the gas from the liquids and the ...
By Rotork plc
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The value of fracking wastewater treatment and recycling technologies in North Dakota
The oil boom in North Dakota is aided by hydraulic fracturing, often referred to as fracking. Fracking uses a pressurized water, sand, and chemical mixture to break through layers of rock and release oil and gas. This procedure produces hundreds of truckloads of wastewater for each fracked well. In this study, we analyze the financial feasibility of a system of wastewater recycling and reuse to ...
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How Fracking Affects Water Quality
Fracking – or hydraulic fracturing – is one of those topics that’s constantly in the news because of controversies surrounding its impact on the natural environment and our reliance on fossil fuels in the face of climate change, driving the need to start operating more sustainably, supported by renewable energy sources. The technique itself involves drilling down into the earth ...
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Produced Water - What You Need to Know
Extracting oil and gas comes with various challenges, one of which is how to deal with the produced water that comes with the oil and gas. In this article, we are going to take a look at produced water: What is produced water Produced water treatment How to dispose of produced water Produced water fracking We’re also going to have a closer look at the pumps that handle produced ...
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Fracking wastewater treatment at collection facility
Abstract Engineering company operates a wastewater collection and treatment facility for their clients in Myton, Utah. The facility receives fracking and produced wastewater from various pumping stations, and then treats the water for disposal at the injection well located on site. Electrocoagulation followed by two clarifiers and 5 micron filter was used. Since many particles float or just ...
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Hydraulic “Fracking”: Are surface water impacts an ecological concern?
Use of high‐volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) in unconventional reservoirs to recover previously inaccessible oil and natural gas is rapidly expanding in North America and elsewhere. Although hydraulic fracturing has been practiced for decades, the advent of more technologically advanced horizontal drilling coupled with improved slickwater chemical formulations has allowed extensive natural ...
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Oklahoma Oil Industry Eyes Produced Water Reuse Strategies
As the scale of fracking increases, states and operators are rethinking produced water management Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique for stimulating production in an oil or gas well by injecting large quantities of pressurized fluid, which creates fissures. Each well is different, but according to StateImpact Pennsylvania, fracking requires an average of 4.4 million gallons of ...
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High Efficiency Softening Process (HESP) for Frack Flowback - produced water treatment study for City of Grand Prairie, TX
Barnett Shale play in Texas, the natural gas economy According to Potter, the 5,500 wells currently pumping gas in the Barnett Shale play will ultimately generate on the order of $35 billion for their owners. As those companies pay taxes and wages, and as their employees and contractors in turn spend their money, there is an economic ripple effect, creating an overall value of about $100 ...
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Recovering Lithium From Mining and Oil & Gas Wastewater
New membrane process could be a game-changer in lithium extraction efficiency Lithium-ion batteries power a wide variety of electronic devices, including mobile phones, laptops, and even electric vehicles, which could account for 60% of new auto sales by 2030. So, they will likely play an important role in the reduction of dependence on fossil fuels. Unfortunately, lithium mining can have ...
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U.S. desalination industry grows since 2000; seen as essential to meeting supply needs
With supplies of clean water becoming more scarce in certain areas and demand increasing, desalination is on the rise in the United States, water professionals told BNA. Half again as many municipal desalination plants were built between 2000 and 2010 as were built in the preceding three decades, according to research by water sector consultant Mike Mickley that was published in 2012 in the IDA ...
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Guardian Double Containment at CAES Facility Case Study
Ajoint venture between ACI Energy, Inc., an investment holding company, and Altela, Inc., a water desalination company, Clarion Altela Environmental Services (CAES) opened in November 2012 to recycle frac water* from the Marcellus and Utica Shale Basins, which stretch across much of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The CAES facility treats the frac water and ultimately turns it into clean distilled water ...
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Case Study - ADC (Eastanglia) Ltd.
Key facts Company ADC (Eastanglia) Ltd. Location Bonnets Lane, PE188JE Wisbech England Web www.adceastanglia.co.uk Simon Moos solution AVC/DOD - On-site dewatering Customer profile ADC (East Anglia) Ltd. is based with their head office near Wisbech in the UK. ADC provide specialist drainage services to customers such as the En¬vironment Agency throughout the whole of East Anglia and the ...
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BioLargo (BLGO) is a Bargain at Current Levels - Green Technology Investments
BioLargo Inc. (OTCQB: BLGO), developer of Nature's Best Solution - a proprietary version of iodine - formed to help solve a variety of common problems around the world, appears to be a bargain at current levels. From pet supplies like those sold at PetSmart Inc. (NASDAQ: PETM) to household brands like those sold by Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX), the company is targeting a number of different ...
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DFM 5.0 doppler flow meter for frac sand slurry flow monitoring - Case Study
CanFrac Sands Ltd. of Lloydmister Saskatchewan (Canada) needed a flowmeter that could accurately measure sand slurry flow without being damaged by this highly abrasive product. They selected the Greyline DFM 5.0 Doppler Flow Meter with a clamp-on ultrasonic sensor mounted on the outside of a pipe. CanFrac produce “fracturing sand” used by the oil and gas industry. This special type ...
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Oil in frac water testing
The amount of water used in and produced by hydraulic fracturing of shale gas wells is in the millions of gallons per well. Whether the water is going to be taken off site for disposal or reused for re-injection, the flowback or produced water needs pretreatment to remove any residual oil from the wa-ter. Waiting for remote laboratory results can take several days to a week. The InfraCal TOG/TPH ...
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Case study - Shale gas extraction: frac water treatment
The client The Client is a company which makes part of a Group based in the Eastern Europe and specialized in drilling activities and well services for the exploration/extraction industry. The Client’s needs Shale is a sedimentary rock that is predominantly comprised of consolidated clay-sized particles. Shale gas is produced from organic-rich shale formation, that typically function as ...
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Falling Oil Price Forces Operators to Find Cost Savings in Water Management
When oil prices were 80 to 100 dollars per barrel, water management costs were high, but they were tolerable when money was flowing profitably. However, as today’s falling price nears 40 dollars, water related costs are still high and only exacerbate widespread industry losses. The 150 US-based companies tracked by Oil & Gas Journal and Oil & Gas Financial Journal reported that ...
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Kroff Chemical Company Continues Growth with Two New Appointments
Kroff, Inc., one of the fastest-growing water treatment companies in the United States, is pleased to announce the addition of two individuals to Kroff Chemical Company, Inc., a division of Kroff, Inc., that provides custom-blended chemicals and processes for water and wastewater treatment: Jim Skiba has been appointed senior account executive. In this role, he will be responsible for ...
By Kroff, Inc.
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