Flowback Water Management

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.

Flowback water management.

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. But in general flowback water is less saline and contains chemicals that are used as part of hydraulic fracturing fluids. Deep well injection open air pits or treatment and reuse of the water.

This water based solution consists of chemical additives mud clay dissolved metal ions and tds total dissolved solids. 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. The fluid produced during this phase is a mixture of crude oil natural gas water and sand.

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. The distinction between flowback water and produced water can be subjective. The water becomes murky because of the abundance of suspended particles. Millions of gallons of water along with hydrochloric acid and other chemicals are injected during a frac job.

The flowback phase sand management configuration illustrated here is an example of a potential wellsite layout. Fracking companies across the nation use a multitude of methods for disposing of the flowback water they produce. 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.

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. 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. After a well has been drilled the casing cemented the shale fractured the pad laid and the piping and production equipment installed the flowback phase begins. Based upon the needs of your sand challenge enercorp will combine different cyclone and filtration technologies to meet your needs.

Flowback is a water based solution that flows back to the earth s surface after completing the hydraulic fracturing of a shale gas reserve.