Equipment and systems used to separate oil from produced water on offshore platforms
There has always been a need to separate produced water from oil and to treat the separated oil to a specified quality. On the other hand, the need to treat oil from produced water to very stringent levels is a relatively new development in the history of production facilities. With the growth of environmental concerns in the late 1950's and early 1960's the oil industry began to voluntarily install more elaborate water treatment equipment offshore. The first dissolved gas flotation units were installed in the mid-1960's. With time regulations were promulgated in the Gulf of Mexico, and eventually throughout the world, requiring treatment and setting criteria for allowable levels of oil and grease in the discharged water. These developments coupled with the growing need onshore to treat produced water for waterflooding and to create steam for thermal floods led to the development of new techniques and equipment for treating oil from produced water. This paper describes these new technology and equipment systems.
- OSTI ID:
- 6068728
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-870323-
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Institute of Chemical Engineers spring national meeting, Houston, TX, USA, 29 Mar 1987; Other Information: Technical Paper 88 INTRO
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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