SAS Drill Cuttings Treatment Process
Challenges in Treatment
The treatment of liquid oil waste from drilling and cleaning operations is often challenging. Whether the waste is oil slops, flowback, well washing or pit washings, the nature of the waste with solids, oil and water tied up in an emulsion makes the waste hard to treat.
In many situations attempts are made to treat this waste by using demulsifiers, which cause some water to be removed but creates a hard to treat thick sludge as an end product. Alternatively, this waste is mixed with drill cuttings and treated via some kind of thermal treatment system. This thermal approach is slow and obviously has a substantial carbon footprint.
The SAS Process - What It Is
At SAS Environmental Services we have developed a process that allows these liquid wastes to be treated fast and effectively compared to thermal treatment or de-watering attempts. The SAS-ES process and approach is unique and has a proven track record in use around the world since 2002. We work with our clients to optimise their drilling waste management. Prevention is always better and by collaborating with our clients we first of all identify where changes can be made to the current process that will reduce drilling waste volumes.
The SAS Process - What Happens
In the SAS-ES process oil and water are recovered. The water is re-used in drilling, exploration, production or disposed of in an injection well. The solids are the only waste part and can often go to landfill without further stabilizing or treatment required. Based on projects from 2002 – 2019 waste reduction is on average 70% – 97%.
The SAS-ES process can include engineering equipment already in place, locally sourced equipment or our in-house developed MIST systems for slops treatment. It is the combination of the right engineering with our unique chemistry and our expertise of decades in drilling waste treatment and management that brings the value to our clients.
Your Waste - Our Solution
If you are dealing with drilling waste such as slops, mud waste or drill cuttings and you are looking to improve your process by increasing the throughput of your process, lowering the carbon footprint or acquire the capability to reduce liquid slops waste in volume by 80% - 90%, you should give us a call. Alternatively email us and we will get back to you within 24 hours.
A brief 20 minute conversation is normally enough to establish if our process and approach will deliver the outcomes you need.