UPSTREAM O&G PRODCUDED WATER TREATMENT
The Problem
Water management is a huge and ever increasing issue in Oil & Gas production. Millions of barrels of Produced Water are generated by Oil & Gas wells. Disposal options are becoming more restricted at an ever increasing expense. Conventional oil/water separation technologies are inefficient and lack the capability to remove 100% of hydrocarbons from produced water.
In addition, millions of barrels of water are needed for production and EOR. Operators throw away millions of barrels of Produced Water wastewaters which when properly treated, can be REUSED as a sustainable water source. This is critically important in water scarce areas.
The Solution
GES’s focus is on produced water recycling, treatment for disposal, and commodities recovery from hydraulic fracturing, and produced waters. Extensive experience in filtration, hydrocarbon recovery, remediation, and cutting-edge electrochemical water treatment technologies, allows the oil and gas division to offer unique solutions.
Customers include:
- Saltwater disposal well operators
- Large oil producers
- Pipeline operators
- Oilfield service companies
GES RESIDUAL CRUDE OIL RECOVERY TECHNOLOGY
GES’s oil recovery approach is simple, straightforward, and a leap forward in technology compared to what is on the market today.
- Nearly 100% of all valuable materials are recovered from waste produced water.
- When used in conjunction with separators, Gas Float, and even walnut shell filters, induced gas systems, and other technologies, the GES produced water recovery system yields the highest levels of hydrocarbon recovery in the market.
- Providing new, or retrofitting existing, filtration and oil separation steps with our technologies makes us unique in the market today.
Produced Water Hydrocarbon Recovery
Step 1-Particulate Removal
Step 2-Free and Emulsified Oil Removal
Step 1-Particulate Removal
- Advanced filtration removes particulates protecting a resin-based media bed.
- Fully automated operation
- Reduces disposal costs
- Each filtration system is integrated with our patent pending operating software, which is fully automated, turn-key and remotely monitored.
About GES Filters
Step 2-Free and Emulsified Oil Removal
Step 1-Particulate Removal
A patented self-cleaning technology that takes Filtration to the next level.
- Ultrasonic cleaning
- No chemicals needed
- NO DISPOSABLE FILTERS
- High velocity cross-flow design
- High flux and anti-fouling
- Low energy needed
- No moving internal parts
- Microfiltration to Ultrafiltration,
20-.003 Micron
Step 2-Free and Emulsified Oil Removal
Step 2-Free and Emulsified Oil Removal
Step 3-Hydrocarbon Capture and Polishing
The filtrate moves to an oleophilic cation resin-based media bed that has a high affinity for oil droplets and emulsions.
- Packed bed coalescing material
- Fully automated operation
- Captures small oil droplets, converts to large drops to separate by density for sale
- In fact, all oil droplets are captured regardless of size.
Step 3-Hydrocarbon Capture and Polishing
Step 3-Hydrocarbon Capture and Polishing
Step 3-Hydrocarbon Capture and Polishing
After the oil recovery media, adsorptive media can be used for dissolved and light hydrocarbon capture, ensuring nearly 100% recovery of all valuable materials from waste produced water.
- Adsorptive macroporous media captures dissolved hydrocarbons
- Regenerated onsite with steam
- Hydrocarbons recovered in condenser in free product form
- Treated water polished to non-detect for hydrocarbons
Targeted Contaminant Removal
Step 3-Hydrocarbon Capture and Polishing
Produced Water Treatment for Reuse
The picture of the filtration skid is an example of targeting a specific material. This system component removes Radium at a production site in the Marcellus Shale in the USA. The effluent can then be safely disposed of by evaporation.
Produced Water Treatment for Reuse
Step 3-Hydrocarbon Capture and Polishing
Produced Water Treatment for Reuse
- Why use groundwater, desalinated water or other sources for production and EOR when the REUSE of Treated Produced Water Wastewater is available onsite?
- Produced Water is complex containing many contaminants for removal including suspended solids, organic compounds, heavy metals, and radionuclides.
- The treatment of Produced Water to Fit-For-Purpose Applications is available to our Clients achieving various treatment goals using multiple treatment technologies.
Advanced Treatment Options
Breakthrough-Plasma Electro Coagulation
Breakthrough-Plasma Electro Coagulation
Breakthrough-Plasma Electro Coagulation
- A leap forward in water treatment technologies. Combines traditional ElectroCoagulation (EC) with advanced Plasma technology.
- More efficient than EC
- Cost-effective, reliable alternative or compliment to traditional chemical addition technologies
- High runtime, consistent performance and a small footprint (e.g. less space, higher water recovery)
Target contaminates
Breakthrough-Plasma Electro Coagulation
Breakthrough-Plasma Electro Coagulation
- Organics/Hydrocarbons
- Suspended Solids
- Biological life
- Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD)
- Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)
- Soluble chemicals
- Advantages
- Highly effective and efficient
- No chemical usage
- Durable
- Relatively simple compared to traditional technologies
- Low maintenance
Plasma Water Treatment-Results
Plasma Water Treatment-Results
Plasma Water Treatment-Results
- Metals: 100% removal of multiple species, Zinc, nickel, cobalt, iron, mercury, etc.
- TSS and turbidity: Reductions up to 99+%, Turbidity <1 NTU
- BOD/COD: Reductions of 90+%
- Total Nitrogen § 85+%
- Phosphorous § 99+% with EC
- Oil and Grease: 95+%
- Bacteria/biological kill
- Complete elimination of all detectable life
- Luminultra ATP test (oil industry standard)
Plasma Water Treatment-Results
Plasma Water Treatment-Results
Plasma Water Treatment-Results
· Lower power consumption than EC
· More efficient reactions than external plasma
· Fast reaction time (short retention time in reactor)
· Immediate, large, filterable floc
· Minimal heat generated
· Low operating expense
· Generate reactive species in situ as compared to shipping chemicals
· More stable effluent = filterable