Smart water treatment: It's not a bomb

摘要

A treatment platform enables significant improvements in operational safety and reliability. Microbial control is a primary concern for completion water, and the industry is currently split right down the middle on how to solve it. Half of the industry uses oxidizers for a low-cost, fast bacteria kill. The other half uses preservative chemistry as their only tool. This includes glutaraldehyde (glut), quaternary ammonium compounds (quat) and glut-quat blends. Preservative chemistry is very good at holding water biostatic for longer periods of time but is more expensive and slower at the initial kill. But many HSE departments have blocked the oxidizers because the most pervasive oxidizer in upstream water has been chlorine dioxide, a volatile, flammable gas that represents a significant exposure hazard and has caused numerous accidents at well pads and water treatment operations.