Chairs:  Shaya Movafaghian, CETCO Energy Services;  Paul Evans, Chevron;  Jinxuan Hu, Select Water Solutions

A panel of experts will discuss challenges around water injection and disposal of oilfield brines in a wide array of topics ranging from well design, economics of disposal, operational issues to alternatives and regulatory pressures.

Panelists:

Laura Capper, Energy Makers Advisory Group
Mark Kidder, ALL Consulting
Kristie Mclin, ConocoPhillips
Michael Skarke, Select Water Solutions
Bill Curry, ExxonMobil

Chairs: Rick McCurdy, Select Energy Servies; Paul Barbour, Devon Energy

The interest in the potential to recover some volume of a "clean" water capable of being beneficially used outside of the oil and gas industry continues to increase with several states having formed produced water consortiums focused on verifying this concept. This session will focus on current status of those efforts as well as updated status of one or more field pilots of beneficial reuse technologies.

Speakers:

Beneficial Reuse: Shedding Light on the "Unknowns"
Adrianne Lopez , Texas Pacific Water Resources           

New Mexico Policy in the Making, Produced Water Reuse
Andrea Felix, New Mexico Oil and Gas Association       

Lessons Learned from Securing TCEQ TPDES Permits for Desalinated Water          
John Christiansen, TetraTech

Chair: Mike Hightower, New Mexico Produced Water Research Consortium;  Caleb Bloyd, Chesapeake Energy

A produced water management technique to reduce produced water disposal include recycling and/or volume reduction.  This session will highlight emerging technologies being developed to enhance produced water evaporation or vaporization from storage ponds or pits without the common environmental, ecological, and operational impacts identified with the use of more traditional evaporation technologies and approaches.

Speakers:

Salt Dispersion and VOC Emission Control During Surface Evaporation of Produced Water          
Mark Patton, Hydrozonix    

Efficacy of Rotary Atomization for Produced Water Evaporation         
Ed Butler, e3 Solutions       

Contained Assisted Produced Water Evaporation with Water Recovery         
Tony Haag, Strongbox Solutions

Enhanced Evaporation for Induced Seismicity Volume Reduction:  Permian & Delaware Field Case Studies
Robert Ballantyne, RWI Enhanced Evaporation

 

Chairs: Wally Georgie, Max Oil Consultancy; Bulent Izgec, Hess   

Across the Globe, efforts are underway to move to more carbon-neutral energy sources and to remove existing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere through efforts such as carbon capture and underground sequestration (CCUS). This session seeks to explore the water requirements for those efforts from a quantity and quality standpoint and to determine if produced water could be used to offset freshwater needs especially in areas historically prone to regional water stress. Regardless of the technology deployed, if produced water is used, it will be critical to remove hydrocarbons from the produced water prior to treatment and an excellent technology for that aspect will be addressed in this session as well.

Speakers:

An Operator’s Perspective on System Design and Operation – Exploring Common Issues and Future Considerations
Graeme Smith, Murphy       

Optimizing Performance of OiW Analysis by Fluorescence – Lab and Flow Loop Testing
Simon Ivar Andresen, Technical University of Denmark

An Integrated Approach to Offshore Produced Water Management     
Srinivas Valle and Jim Ross, BW Energy  

GoM Deepwater Produced Water Management Case Study      
Nan Zhang and Paul Clare, Hess