Post on 07-Sep-2018
InPro Services
Turnkey and innovative environmental solutions
Inpro Systems was established in 2012, providing water and solids clean up solutions for
the energy sector by optimising proven technologies to create an integrated delivery
solution.
The global market is changing significantly in water and solids clean-up, where many
regions are tightening their environmental specifications in the Oil and Gas market. Under
OSPAR the requirements will be reduced to 15ppm in 2017.
The intended clean-up will be focused on water over-boarding, drilling cuttings and well
services (workovers).
Utilising Aiken Groups specialist knowledge of project management in the construction of
containerised modules, for both onshore and offshore applications, and their expertise in
the global market, InPro Systems can deliver bespoke, fit-for-purpose, turnkey systems.
Introduction
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InPro Systems are a bespoke solution provider.
Our focus is on slops & oily water, mud slops, frac flow-back waters and waste drilling
fluid treatment systems for the Oil and Gas upstream sector, we also offer oily water,
wastewater, process & cooling water and effluent treatment to various markets and
industry sectors.
We currently cover the following main markets:
• Oil and Gas
• Process/Manufacturing
• Decommissioning
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Oil & Gas
Clean-up and
hydrocarbon recovery
from waste streams.
Modular/scalable systems
to treat upstream and
downstream wastes and
recover hydrocarbons.
Our Business
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Our Business
Oil & Gas
Clean-up and
hydrocarbon recovery
from waste streams.
• Groundwater, closed
drain interceptors
• Oily water, slop water,
mud slops
• Produced water
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Oil and Gas Industry Market Drivers
Regulatory
• Changes to legislation & legal
framework
• International treaties,
discharge/disposal limitations
• Environmental discharge
consent limitations
• Enforcement
Industry challenges
• Maturity, effects of mature production &
enhanced recovery techniques -
(increase use of chemicals /water,
production water and workovers)
• Changing requirements relative to current
end-of-life treatment plant
• Costs for local containment, transportation
and disposal (skip and ship)
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Market opportunities – ‘3Rs’ Oil & Gas
• Regulations are becoming tougher – are the agreed discharge rates being met?
• Reservoirs and subsea are increasing in complexity, requiring more water and
chemicals
• Remediation of fluid and solid cleanliness impacting both onshore and offshore
Challenges – Oil & Gas Globally
Reservoir:
• Drilling activities
• Chemical injection for well management is
increasing
• Water injection is increasing:
− Extended reach drilling
− Water flooding
− Fracking water pressurisation
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Upstream
• Process water from aqueous
cleaning/washing of drill
cuttings using hydrodynamic
cavitation
• Hydraulic fracturing flowback
water
• Drilling slops
• Enhanced recovery –
treatment of water for injection
• Produced water
Transportation
• Oil tanker ballast and tank clean down
waste water
• Tank farm contaminated surface water,
tank bottom sludges
Midstream
• Refinery and petrochemical plant effluent,
tank bottom sludges, contaminated surface
water
Challenges – Oil & Gas Globally
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Turnkey Solutions
Physical
Electro-chemistry
Biological (not
offshore)Chemistry
Mechanical
• No single technology fits all
• Integrated systems approach is required
• Solutions can be permanent or mobile
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Typical Solutions
• Electrocoagulation and Advanced Electrochemical Oxidation, electrochemical
processes for treating diverse wastewater streams
• Cavitation Scrubbing of Solids, stripping gases from liquids and other applications
• Natural Biostimulants and their application to bioremediation and wastewater
treatment
• AquaPurge; an Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) using ozone and UV to treat
produced water and other wastewater streams
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The Process – Using Proven technologies
• Crushing to break up/grade contaminated solids below a maximum size for optimum
processing
• Cavitation scrubbing to hydrodynamically generate cavitation vapour bubbles and
harness the energies released when these bubbles collapse to separate oils and
hydrocarbons from solid particulates
• Oil separation to recover the majority of the released hydrocarbons
• Electrocoagulation to continuously treat and recycle all process water to remove
dispersed/emulsified hydrocarbons, larger organic molecules and polymers,
suspended particulates, heavy metals, alkaline earths
• Optionally ultrafiltration, high pressure reverse osmosis and vacuum effect evaporation
to remove salts washed from drill cuttings, e.g. to comply with current Canadian
legislation
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Technology – Hydrodynamic Cavitation Scrubbing
• This process utilises the energy release and intense pressures produced by
hydrodynamic cavitation bubble collapse to separate the hydrocarbons from the solid
particulates
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Solid Decontamination System - Process
Tilted plate separator
Buffer tank
High pressure
pump
Contaminated solids
Two-stage cavitation scrubbing
unit
Enclosed screw conveyor
Chemical addition
Cleaned solids
Pump
Polymer
Dissolved air
flotation tank
Screw blender
Buffer tank
Pump
Pump
System make-up water
Low pressure
sprayUpward current
separator
Recovered hydrocarbons
Water overflow with fine particulates + remaining oils
Wash water from cleaned solids
with fine particulates + hydrocarbons
Recovered
hydrocarbons
Pump
Discharge of dewatered flocs and sediments
Sludge
pump
Filter or rotary press
Flocs and sediments
Dewatering screen
Low pressure
spray
Global Advantech Resources’ Packaged Water Treatment System modules installed depend upon local consents for discharge to the environment
Pump
Discharge of treated water
Contaminated solids are prepared and broken down to
a maximum size, e.g. 10mm using a cone crusher.
Next the solids are loaded into the scrubbing unit, which
uses hydrodynamically generated cavitation to separate
adhering oils/hydrocarbons from solid particulates
Separated materials and process water are ejected into
the separator cyclone, which in turn overflows into the
oil/fines separator units, where the oil/hydrocarbons are
collected
The separated solids are discharged from the underflow
of the separator to a screw elevator/ dryer for discharge
into skips
Prior to recirculation or discharge the process water is
treated to remove suspended ultra-fines, dissolved/
emulsified oils and heavy metals using
electrocoagulation systems
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Previous HCS Projects
Location Client Details
Alberta, Canada Syncrude Design and supply of hot water hydrodynamic cavitation scrubbing system for the recovery of heavy crude oil from tar sands
Angola Drill cuttings cleaning, oil contaminated sand
Russia - Siberia Yukos Two systems – drill cuttings cleaning and oil contaminated sand
Isle of Grain – UK NATO Oil contaminated sand/soil
Winkleworth Coking Works - UK Environment Agency Coal dust and coal contaminated sand/soil
Glasgow Coal dust and coal contaminated sand/soil
Venezuela BP Drill cuttings cleaning, oil contaminated sand
UK HM Coastguard Marine Pollution Control Unit
Two systems (70 tonnes per hour and 25 tonnes per hour) mobile systems for cleaning crude oil from beaches – One system featured on UK television programme “Tomorrows World” successfully cleaning oily sand on beach at Caister in Norfolk
Australia Oil contaminated sand
Mexico Pemex Oil contaminated sand
Brazil Petrobras Oil contaminated sand
UK-USA Mobile drilling waste processing system
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Cavitation Scrubbing in Soil Remediation
• Mobile and static plant use cavitation scrubbing to separate and recover hydrocarbons
from sand, soils and sludges
• Environmentally effective, reduces residual hydrocarbon contamination of solids to 1.0-
0.05% depending porosity of the substrate and the contaminants
• Process solution is treated and recycled to remove emulsified oils, hydrocarbons,
BOD, COD, suspended solids and heavy metals
• Cavitation systems proven in the clean-up of old industrial sites, e.g. Isle of Grain oil
refinery (UK) – two previous generation systems supplied to UK Maritime and
Coastguard for emergency response use
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Water Flow
Electrochlorinator
1st
electrocoagulation
stage
2nd
electrocoagulation
stage
Ultrafiltration
stage
Typical analysis:>>3000mg/L hydrocarbons
Typical analysis:5-10mg/L hydrocarbons( fully compliant with current and future maximum permitted discharges)
Water flow through the treatment process with influent and discharge/re-use results
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Water Treatment System – Process Flow
4. Ultrafiltration to remove remaining
hydrocarbons, organics, suspended
solids prior to discharge to sea
5. Flocs and sediments removed
dewatered using filter press
6. Inline automatic analyser for influent
produced water and multiple
automatic analysers to check that
treated water from discharge to sea
meets permitted criteria
1. Electrochlorination – generate
sodium hypochlorite to oxidise
and remove sulphides,
especially hydrogen sulphide
2. 1st stage of electrocoagulation
(iron electrodes) to remove the
majority of hydrocarbons,
organics, suspended solids,
heavy metals, etc.
3. Optional 2nd stage of
electrocoagulation (aluminium
electrodes) to reduce remaining
hydrocarbons, organics,
suspended solids, heavy metals,
etc.
pH check
Polymer pH
adjustment
Electrocoagulation cell Media
filter
Tilted-plate dissolved gas
flotation/sedimentation tank
Post-hydrocyclone
produced water for treatment
Discharge of flocs
and sediments
Filter press
UltrafilterTreated
water for discharge
to sea
Residual
crude oil hydrocarbons
Inline water
analyser
Coil
filter
Sodium hypo-
chlorite dosing
Inline water analyser
pH check
Polymer pH
adjustment
Electrocoagulation cell
Tilted-plate dissolved gas flotation/sedimentation tank
Inline mixer
Filteredseawater
NaOCltank 2
NaOCltank 1
Heat
exchanger + chiller
Electro-chlorination
cell
Electrochlorinator
Second electrocoagulation stage where required
Primary electrocoagulation stage
Ultrafiltration
stage
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Multi-stage Water Treatment
1. Electrochlorination – generate sodium hypochlorite to oxidise and remove sulphides,
especially hydrogen sulphide
2. 1st stage of electrocoagulation (iron electrodes) to remove the majority of
hydrocarbons, organics, suspended solids, heavy metals, etc.
3. Optional 2nd stage of electrocoagulation (aluminium electrodes) to reduce remaining
hydrocarbons, organics, suspended solids, heavy metals, etc.
4. Ultrafiltration to remove remaining hydrocarbons, organics, suspended solids prior to
discharge to sea
5. For produced water: inline automatic analyser for influent water and multiple automatic
analysers to check that treated water for discharge to sea/local environment meets
permitted criteria
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Haliburton Reference
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Previous Project – Wastewater and Slops
Onshore Rainforest Drilling Wastewater and Slops Treatment System in Papua New
Guinea
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Track Record – Other Projects
• System to treat used oil emulsion cutting fluids and process wash effluent prior to
discharge at a major car manufacturer – Italy
• System to treat drilling slops – UK
• System to treat contaminated groundwater and effluent at a major tank farm prior to
discharge – Europe
• System to treat effluent a major refined products distribution depot – Italy
• System to clean crude oil storage tanks at production site – Europe
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InPro Systems Vision
To be your environmental partner, providing ‘fit for
purpose’ integrated turnkey solutions’; using proven
technologies.
Way forward
• Share with us your challenges
• Engage with us to screen the potential solution
− enable us to demonstrate how we can add
value by working together
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Contact Details
Contact Details:
Sales Enquiries – sales@inpro-systems.com
Technical Enquiries – technicalqueries@inpro-systems.com
Tel: +44 (0)1224 244 300
www.aikengroup.com