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News Release from: Surface Active Solutions | Subject: Disposing of oil wastes
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 June 2004
Benefits for operators disposing of oil
wastes
Offshore operators and contractors seeking to reduce the costs from the disposal of contaminated waste products annually can now save millions of pounds thanks to a Scottish based technology company
Offshore operators and contractors seeking to reduce the costs from the disposal of contaminated waste products annually can now save millions of pounds thanks to a Scottish based technology company Logistics, shipping and transportation costs set to tumble as oil industry waste recycling minimises ecological and environmental risk
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 3 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Offshore operators and contractors seeking to reduce the burden of logistical, shipping and transportation costs from the disposal of contaminated waste products annually can now save millions of pounds thanks to a Scottish based technology company.
Operators can also benefit in meeting toughening environmental legislation.
With global estimations for the treatment and disposal of drill cuttings and waste emulsion slops running into millions of tons per annum, the rising costs met by the major contractors and operators forced to ship thousands of tons of oil industry waste bi-products to an on-shore treatment plant or landfill site currently runs into millions of pounds every year.
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However, this will be reduced significantly following the development of a breakthrough treatment process recently launched by an Edinburgh, Scotland micro-emulsion technology specialist, Surface Active Solutions Limited.
The company is rolling out worldwide a portfolio of surfactant and micro-emulsion waste treatment products for use in environmental and industrial clean-up operations across the Oil and Gas sector that are designed to clean a vast range of waste products from mud tanks to drill cuttings.
These water-based, micro-emulsion forming surfactant products will, for example, clean cuttings to below 1 percent wt oil and therefore enable the disposal of cuttings at sea in line with current environmental legislation and can separate emulsion slop wastes into reusable oil, clean water and clean solids.
The micro-emulsion treatment systems enable both the oil and surfactant to be recovered after the separation processes.
Furthermore, they have low energy requirements, emit low emissions, have high process throughputs and the surfactant products used are both biodegradable and non-toxic.
John Harrison, managing director of Surface Active Solutions Ltd commented; "There are many logistical problems encountered by offshore operators in containing and transferring solid and liquid wastes currently produced by drilling and completion processes to treatment and disposal, storage or recycling facilities onshore.
Our surfactant technologies have a wide range of applications for the industry that increase safety, improve operational efficiency, minimise waste volumes and environmental impact and drastically cut operating and production costs.
In trials treating slop wastes it has been demonstrated that we can reduce the volume of waste to landfill produced by certain cleaning applications by over 70%.
One of the key elements in keeping costs down across the industry is to cut down on the necessary disposal of oil contaminated industry bi-products created from day to day operations.
Using our micro-emulsion surfactant technology, we now have the ability to separate solids from fluid, clean tooling and drilling equipment and save the global industry millions of dollars annually.
This can all be carried out on site, greatly reducing the costly transportation overhead.
More importantly the technology can be used for cleaning applications without resulting in the production of large volumes of emulsion (slop) waste in the first place.
In this fashion SAS has created the first ever integrated chemical technology solution that provides for zero waste production at source".
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