Flowback Water Management

Fracking companies across the nation use a multitude of methods for disposing of the flowback water they produce.

Flowback water management.

The fluid produced during this phase is a mixture of crude oil natural gas water and sand. Diagnose and profile with certainty. Our water treatment team utilizes a spectrum of bio control and recycling technologies to prepare source water to go down hole on the fly or tie flowback water back into frac supply for reuse. And because miox technology operates with salt water and electricity there are virtually no health safety or environmental concerns at the drill site or down hole.

Well testing enables making key production measurements such as flow rate fluid properties and composition pressure and temperature at. But in general flowback water is less saline and contains chemicals that are used as part of hydraulic fracturing fluids. Our mobile miox frac water unit offers an efficient effective low cost solution for treating high volumes and high rates of flowback water with superior bacterial kill. Flowback water the second type of water results from the fracture stimulation frac the process whereby freshwater is pumped into the wellbore under extremely high pressure to fracture subsurface rock formations to release hydrocarbons from the producing zone.

Millions of gallons of water along with hydrochloric acid and other chemicals are injected during a frac job. Water treatment and recycling has the ability to decrease operator costs while sustaining and expanding water sources and supporting an environmentally. Flowback typically lasts between 30 and 120 days. One cubic meter 6 3 bbl of water requires 3 3 gj 2 2 million btus of energy to evaporate however the value of energy known as exergy depends on its temperature.

Based upon the needs of your sand challenge enercorp will combine different cyclone and filtration technologies to meet your needs. Deep well injection open air pits or treatment and reuse of the water. Flowback is necessary for initial well cleanup to remove fluids that were introduced to the well and any debris that accumulated in the wellbore. Dependent on each state s regulations for disposal energy companies often have three different methods to choose from.

The water becomes murky because of the abundance of suspended particles. Flowback is a water based solution that flows back to the earth s surface after completing the hydraulic fracturing of a shale gas reserve. This water based solution consists of chemical additives mud clay dissolved metal ions and tds total dissolved solids. The flowback phase sand management configuration illustrated here is an example of a potential wellsite layout.

It may only make sense to spend this energy if a waste heat source or a low temperature heat source is available such as waste heat from reciprocating engine jacket cooling exhaust or waste gas that is flared.