This presentation will review the exploration and production of oil and gas in the US, with a focus on the treatment and disposition options for the 5 to 10 barrels of water produced along with each barrel of oil. It will consider the membrane and advanced treatment options for minimizing waste and maximizing beneficial reuse....

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TENORM (Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occuring Radioactive Materials) are naturally occurring radioactive material whose radionuclide concentrations are increased by or as a result of past or present human practices. These materials can be generated as part of Oil and Gas exploration and production activities or any other industrial process t...

Current applications of membrane technology have demonstrated their high potential for meeting petroleum industry needs and their feasibility for treating produced water for reuse or safe environmental discharge. Selection of an optimal membrane material, form factor and modes of operation are critical for successful implementation. Oranic metal co...

This presentation describes the development and startup of a 6,000 barrels per day (bpd) mobile demonstration system for treating wastewater generated by hydraulic fracturing. The system is a cooperative project involving a Houston-based oil company, two universities, a ceramic membrane manufacturer, and a system integrator. Included in the prese...

Advanced wastewater process technologies offer power companies a feasible approach to compliance with national and state regulations. This paper presents alternative scenarios where an ultrafiltration (UF) process is applied after a biological treatment process to polish water prior to discharge. We present how the UF process enables the power comp...

A newly built zero-liquid discharge industrial wastewater treatment plant for the treatment of groundwater flow from a railroad tunnel provides an excellent example of an elegant solution to a highly constrained challenge. The lessee of the one-hundred-year-old Moffat Tunnel in the Rocky Mountains was newly required to treat the water flowing from ...

Enviro Water Minerals Company?s (EWM) Full Recovery DesalinationSM is a revolutionary and environmentally friendly approach to fresh water production. Full Recovery DesalinationSM extracts the dissolved solids contained in a variety of water sources for beneficial use, leaving potable water for municipal and other uses. Utilizing proven, commercial...

In this work, a full-scale 2.9 MGD open-platform (UF) system was implemented as pretreatment to an RO system for selenium removal from a mine-influenced surface water. Multiple concepts are analyzed including (1) the importance of pretreatment chemistry and understanding contaminant speciation, (2) the value and practical considerations of open-pla...

Membranes are being considered for more offshore applications as water quality requirements become more stringent. Space, weight and cost are concerns as is reliability. Membranes have been used for many applications offshore but there's a move to use them in much more challenging applications....

The Antapaccay mine is a copper producing facility operated by Glencore in southern Peru. In 2016, this facility had two sources of water, one from the ?Rio Salado? and the second from wells which are made up of dewatering of the south and north antapaccay copper cut. In order to reduce the use of water from the Rio Salado, the mine approved a pr...

The water requirements of industry are rapidly evolving. Many areas where natural resources are being developed are both remote and water scarce. This, coupled with increasing water needs as well as stricter environmental regulation, is creating significant challenges for industries such as mining and O&G Exploration. This discussion will focus aro...

Bureau of Reclamation has been making investments in research in the area of produced water for over a decade. There area various lessons learned and results in this area of research that are currently informing our current research programs. There are gaps and needs being identified and moving forward this impaired water source is becoming a key p...

Ceramic membrane is a proven technology to recycle O&G produced water as well as tailing pond effluent from the mining industry. Several case studies will be detailed. A 50,000 bpd produced water reclamation facility has been in operation since 2012 using CeraMem membranes. A Lithium mine in Australia selected CeraMem to treat a 150 m3/h tailing po...

This presentation will address the use of a proprietary direct organic solvent extraction technology for the desalination of high salinity oil and gas produced water. The topics include an overview of the market application, a description of the treatment technology, cost figures, and current state of development....

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This presentation discusses the existing and potential implementation of membrane technology in Oil and Gas field applications. It mainly focuses on the upstream drilling water treatment and produced water treatement. Special membrane and element material properties that are desired to solve real field water treatment needs for drilling and recycli...