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Compact Flotation Unit

The recent advances in compact floatation technology allow multiple treatment stages to be combined into a single unit, providing key benefits like lower weight and footprint. Compact floatation units from Cameron can reduce oil-in-water content from 1000 ppm to below 10 ppm through multiple stages within one vessel. Their compact water knockout unit can also efficiently remove water from produced fluids at high water cuts.

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Compact Flotation Unit

The recent advances in compact floatation technology allow multiple treatment stages to be combined into a single unit, providing key benefits like lower weight and footprint. Compact floatation units from Cameron can reduce oil-in-water content from 1000 ppm to below 10 ppm through multiple stages within one vessel. Their compact water knockout unit can also efficiently remove water from produced fluids at high water cuts.

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Surprising Advances in

Compact Floatation Units

The recent advances in floatation technology are and exceed the overboard, disposal well or re-
welcome development for everyone dealing with injection requirements. Technology selection may
produced water. The ability to combine performance require dissolved hydrocarbon removal in addition to
of several technologies into one unit is great news free and dispersed hydrocarbon removal.
met with so much anticipation. IQPC’s Darwin
Jayson Mariano recently spoke with Mike Conventional offshore and onshore treatments of
Bhatnagar, Sr. Product Manager – Produced Water produced water have involved the use of multiple
at Cameron, a leading provider of flow equipment stages of water treatment to meet the required
products, systems and services to worldwide oil, gas discharge concentrations. Once water breakthrough
and process industries, to shed light on this topic. occurs the water cut increases with time. Total
volume of oil produced tends to drop over time. Most
What are the common technical challenges faced mature oil production facilities produce considerably
today when it comes to managing produced more water than oil in volumetric terms and for
water? How do you think this can be addressed? certain wells the water cut may be high as 95 - 99%.
These facilities will require efficient produced water
Over the life of the oil well, the volume of water treatment equipment to meet current discharge
produced will exceed the volume of oil produced, constraints; equipment upgrades and in some cases
creating three crucial challenges to operators: additional equipment to meet the production needs.
maintaining efficient environmental practices, Increased total fluid volume passing through the PW
meeting environmental regulations and handling train may be the bottleneck and create poor
large volumes of produced water efficiently and performance.
effectively.
Tie-in of new fields increases total volume to be
As environmental polices of regulatory authorities treated. The hydrocarbon resource becomes more
and operators become increasingly more stringent, valuable and recovering additional oil even at the
there is a need to develop high efficiency systems ppm level from large volumes of produced water can
that can meet boost the overall production rates. There exists a

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“As environmental polices of regulatory authorities
and operators become increasingly more stringent,
there is a need to develop high efficiency systems
that can meet and exceed the overboard, disposal
well or re-injection requirements. “

need to have systems with smaller foot print, smaller


weight requirements that can be retrofit into existing
systems in order to meet these demands.

What interesting technologies or innovations do


you see lately in produced water management?
How will it affect/help key stakeholders?

There are two things that come to mind:

1. The next generation compact flotation system


that can combine the performance of several
technologies into one unit. Photo courtesy of Cameron
2. The compact water knock out unit that can
remove water from the bulk fluids from the wells
at high water cuts. lower weight, has a smaller footprint, is less
dependent on chemicals and can potentially replace
Please tell us more about the latest multiple produced-water treatment stages. The TST-
developments in compact floatation units? What CFU™ units are available in flow rates of 750 to
key benefits does it provide? 100,000 BWPD (5 to 700 m3/hr.) and provide distinct
benefits for offshore installations as compared to
Cameron’s high-efficiency compact flotation system traditional technologies.
is used to remove oil from produced and waste
waters. The TST-CFU™ technology has been Complimenting the TST-CFU, Cameron’s high-
developed to meet the need for a high-performance, efficiency compact Water Knock Out unit is used to
multistage single vessel for treatment of produced remove water from the well stream. The TST-
water in the oil and gas industry. The TST-CFU™ is WKO™ technology has been proven to offer distinct
the next-generation compact flotation unit that uses advantages that enhance the performance of
gas flotation combined with centrifugal forces to traditional separators, which include, improved
separate and remove hydrocarbons as liquid and performance in providing high cut water levels,
gas, aromatic compounds, hydrophobic substances reduced maintenance costs due to no moving parts
and small solid particles from produced water. The internally and lower operating costs by not requiring
TST-CFU™ system requires less equipment, has a an external power supply, among others.

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Can you talk about Cameron’s solutions/product The TST-WKO™ can handle over 10% oil in water
lines that can help address key concerns in concentrations and reduce it to less than 300ppm
produced water management? O/W through a single unit that can be further treated
by a three stage single vessel TST-CFU™ to bring
The TST-CFU™ with its unique performance meets the OIW level to less than 20ppm. The water content
these challenges and delivers a powerful advantage in the reject oil from the TST-WKO™ was reduced to
compared to traditional designs. The unit can handle 10-20% and routed to the separator. This has
high O/W content (1000 ppm) and can achieve resulted in drastically improving the operating
below 10 ppm O/W through multiple stages within capacity of the separator.
one vessel. As a polishing vessel, it has shown
reduction in O/W content from 20-25 ppm down to 1
ppm.

Photo courtesy of Cameron

Learn more about Utilising the Latest Technologies for Water


Minimisation,Separation, Treatment and Reinjection at Produced Water
Management 2013

To find out more, visit www.producedwaterevent.com

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