 EARTH (Canada) Corporation

EARTH (Canada)
Corporation
&
Weatherford

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Solutions for a Cleaner Planet !
An Answer to Today’s
Produced Water
Treatment Challenges
and Opportunities

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The TORR Technology
Cutting Edge Technology
in Produced Water Treatment

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Self-contained, Self-cleaning, Simple & Cost
Efficient Technology

Design Features:

• Removes non soluble oil emulsions 2 m.

• Oil discharge concentrations well below 5ppm*
(free oil & emulsified oil).
• One single pass will reduce oil concentration
• Can handles variable inlet oil concentrations during upset
conditions.
• Built-in continuous oil separation & recovery.
• O.5% BSW can be achieved.
• Discharge concentrations not affected by shock loads
of oil at the inlet.
(*) Depends on the water conditions and each sites are different.
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Results of a field trial (1/2)

Oil Concentration (ppm )at Operating Flow Velocities

(*) API/Density : 0.89

10000.00
Flow Velocity
20 m/hr 30 m/hr 20 m/hr 30 m/hr
1000.00 Discharge: 0.29 ppm 0.23 ppm
Concentration (ppm)

100.00

10.00

1.00

0.10
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Example 1/2 Stages

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Results of a field trial (2/2)
Water Characteristics

15 microns
N: 5000, Inlet oil concentration : 1917 ppm

51.7%

2 microns microns
12 microns

Here you see that all oil particles of <15 microns represents 163 ppm (8.5% of 1917 ppm)
which tell you that not only the TORR was able to recover 1754 ppm (all oil particles of 15 to
78 microns size) but it was also able to recover down to <1ppm all oil particles less than 15
microns and as low as 2 microns.
Example
With 2//2of the oil particles that are <12 microns this means that this a very difficult water to
51.7%
treat.

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Self-contained, Self-cleaning, Simple &
Cost Efficient Technology

Design Features:

• No added chemicals or thermal energy

• Required for oil separation.
• Flow capacity up 30MBPD.
• Pressure vessel (150-300psi).
• Operating pressure as low 20-25psi.
• Low Pressure drop.
• Small footprint.
• Low & easy maintenance.

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Self-contained, Self-cleaning, Simple & Cost
Efficient Technology.

Treatment Capabilities

• Oil emulsions  2 microns.

• Discharge concentrations not affected by
shock loads of oil at the inlet.
• Not affected by dissolved solids.
• TSS 25 m.
• Density  12.
• Oil viscosity up to 100,000cSt.
• Operating temperature up to 100°C.
• pH 3-11..

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The RPA® Technology

RPA® Filter Media

• Backbone of the TORR™ System

• TORR™ incorporates RPA® that acts
as a self-cleaning filter (no backwash required)
• Allows almost complete recoverability of sorbed oil
(free floating and emulsified oil)
• Can be incinerated safely in-situ, therefore little or no
disposal costs involved
• RPA® is highly economical and environmentally friendly

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The TORR Module

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Principle of the TORR Process

Recovered oil / water

RPA
Coalescing
Filter

A Emulsified
Bed

Oil
Oil

Flow

Drain pipe

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Environmentally Friendly Technology!

• Heat & Chemical Free Process.

• Low to No Energy Consumption.
• No Sludge or Waste Generated.
• Re-use & Recycling of Recovered Oil.
• Minimum yearly disposal of RPA® Filter Media.
• No waste by-product  no secondary environmental impact

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Oil Water Separation Technologies

OIL DROPLET
SEPARATOR TYPE TECHNOLOGY
REMOVAL RANGE
API Gravity 150 m
CPI, VTC Coalescer 20 m-50 m
DAF / IGF Air Bubbles/Gas Down to 25-30 m
Hydrocyclone Centrifugal Force Down to 15 m
Centrifuge Centrifugal Force Down to 5 m

TORR RPA® Technology  2 m

G.A.C Adsorption 2 m
U.Filtration Membrane 1 m
Source from Frankiewicz (2001) 13
 Typical Produced Water Treatment Line

Well Pumps Primary Sep. Secondary Sep. Tertiary Sep. Filtration Disposal

F.W.K.O. Liquid/Liquid Floatation Nutshells

Hydrocyclone/
Heater Treater IGF Sand
Degasser.
CPI, API

Outlet <1000ppm
- Overboard
- Reinjection
- Other

TORR  Solutions

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Factors for choosing the TORR™ Technology

1. Well Intervention Costs

2. Lost Oil (Recycle)
3. Facility Bottlenecks
4. Boiler Feed Water Preparation
5. Chemicals (None)
6. Thermal Energy (None)
7. Extended Economic Life
8. Electricity (Very little)
9. Labour and other fixed costs (Low)
10. Environmental Discharge (Below actual regulations)

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TORR Mobile Unit for Offshore & On shore
Field Tests

Cartridge

Container

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The TORR Technology Recognition
2004 HART’S Meritorious Award for
Engineering Innovation

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State of the Art Technology for Oil and Solids
Characterization.
To better understand the behavior of Produced Water and help design better
Systems, EARTH acquired an on-line image analysis video microscopy to
provide size and concentration information on multiple particle and droplet
populations simultaneously.

- Allows real monitoring and control

of oily water separation process
stages.
ViPA
Technology
-Capable of providing true oil
droplets sizes distributions (which is
unaffected by solids.
- Measures and predicts future
concentrations for discharge
monitoring and droplet sizes,oil and
solid concentrations for produced
water injection
Helps prevent prevent pump and
formation damage as well as control
discharge

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