Tag: Oil & Gas
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Indian oil and gas firm opts for desalination
Indian gas and oil firm ONGC has opted to build its own Rs 439 crore (US$ 66 million) reverse osmosis desalination facility as it faces uncertainty over provision from the local water supplier according to Times of India.
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Indian oil firm builds effluent treatment plant to cut freshwater use
Indian Oil’s Gujarat refinery is investing Rs 160 crores (US$ 24.1 million) in setting up a reverse osmosis (RO) plant at its 13.7 million-tonnes-a-year refinery.
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Venezuelan oil firm ups desalination to offset drought
Amid a persistent severe drought, Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA’s Paraguaná refinery has upgraded its desalination facility to increase output by a third following investment in plant of some US$ 250 million.
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Analyst forecasts near doubling of water reuse in fracking industry by 2020
Only 2% the US fracking industry’s US$ 6 billion plus outlay on water management in 2014 was spent on treatment of the 70,000 Ml of contaminated water the industry produced according to a report by market analyst Bluefield Research. But the volume of reuse will almost double by 2020.
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IDE supplies evaporators to groundbreaking Chinese project
Bomo Environmental Engineering has purchased two evaporators from IDE Technologies as part of China’s first produced water treatment plant. The facility in Karamay, Xinjian will be the first in China to operate under a Build Operate Own (BOO) model. The win marks IDE’s bid to raise its profile in the oil and gas sector, the…
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Aquarion in tie with mining cleantech player
Ottawa-based cleantech company, BluMetric Environmental, has teamed up with Swiss water technology firm, Aquarion, in a technology, business, and project development agreement with an industrial wastewater focus.
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Microbes could improve fracking clean-up
Research findings by the US Geological Survey (USGS) have indicated that bacteria in produced water could improve the way fluid from shale gas operations is handled and reused.
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Energy Recovery trials its pump-guarding fracking system
Liberty Oilfield Services is to conduct trials of Energy Recovery’s Vor Teq hydraulic pumping system for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) at US well sites. The system is based on Energy Recovery’s PX Pressure Exchanger technology which is deployed in more than 15,000 desalination installations worldwide according to Energy Recovery.
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Oil and gas player commissions produced water treatment plant
Encana Oil and Gas has designed and commissioned a reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant to treat produced water from its oil sand wells in the Moneta Divide, Wyoming. It has since sold the plant along with all its Moneta Divide assets to Aethon Energy.
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STW puts zero liquid system on show
STW Water Process and Technologies, this week will hold demonstrations in the Texas state capital, Austin, of a zero liquid discharge (ZLD) thermal water processing technology it licences from Salttech under an exclusive agreement.