Produced Water Treatment

 

The maturing of global reserves coupled with more stringent environment discharge legislation is increasing the dependence of operators on their Produced Water Treatment process to maintain their production targets. This is no trivial task when many offshore operators of mature assets may be processing many more water than oil.

 

The key to successful and reliable Produced Water Treatment is to have a number of processing elements from Primary (bulk oil removal) to Tertiary (water polishing) rather than relying on one single element. As the oil content in the produced water decreases, it becomes increasingly more difficult and expensive to reduce it further. It is a fact for every current produced water treatment technology that the less oil contamination at inlet, the less the residual oil in the water outlet – in other words: less oil in = less oil out. Therefore, for most applications, a primary bulk oil removal step is essential for unloading the duty of a secondary water polishing system if the water discharge quality is to be maximised.

 

For offshore applications particularly, Cyclotech have recognised that the equipment must also be compact as well as performance efficient.  Typically, every tonne of process plant requires approximately three tonnes of super and sub structure to support it and thus process equipment space and weight are key commercial drivers.

 

Cyclotech has developed a range of innovative technologies for each step of the treatment process to provide a solution that is compact, targeted, robust, flexible, and most importantly meets the discharge requirements of a specific application:

 

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SECONDARY