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09/04/201707/20/2020

Drilling Waste Management Equipment and System

Recently,international community is paying more and more attention to environmental protection and customers have seen practical economic benefits brought by drilling waste management equipment. Drilling fluid recycled each day can save tens of thousands of US dollars for customers. More and more new and regular customers write to KOSUN to ask about our technologies and equipment related to drilling waste management.

What is drilling waste?Drilling waste means cuttings, waste mud and waste water mixture generated during the drilling process. These wastes can cause serious environmental pollution, and if being directly discharged, they will do great harm to soil and water resource, making covered earth surface barren.

Drilling Waste Management System and Equipment-KOSUN

In order to protect the environment in which we live, recycle drilling fluid and save more cost for customers, KOSUN sets up “Xi’an Oil & Gas Drilling Waste Management Engineering Center” and develops vertical cuttings dryer, Hi-G dryer, centrifuge, screw conveyor, screw pump and other first-class high-performance drilling waste management equipment, taking “zero discharge of drilling waste” as the drilling waste management standard.

Nowadays, KOSUN has completed the production and packaging of a batch of shaker screens for vertical cuttings dryers and is ready to ship them to Africa. These screens will serve as replacements of Vertical Cuttings Dryer screens active in Africa for drilling waste management. This set of KOSUN drilling waste management system has been used by turns at several African drilling sites after being sold to Africa in March 2014. Customers highly praised treatment result of the equipment.

KOSUN can not supply drilling waste management equipment,but can also provide solids control equipment,such as shale shaker,desander,desilter,drilling decanter centrifuge,desilter cone,mud agitator,etc.

Kosun- Solids Control Company/ Drilling Waste Management Company

08/23/201710/23/2017

Which manufacturer is the best in Drilling Waste Management in China?

Drilling waste management manufacturer – Kosun, from China, are searching drilling mud treatment and disposal methods for 25 years, manufacturing quality drilling cuttings waste management system and serving the clients around the world.

The advantages of Drilling waste management are:

-It is good for the environment and saves energy.

-It reduces the cost of operation as we get to reuse the materials.

In the process of drilling a water or oil hole, the solids that are obtained and the drilling fluid get mixed. This is called drilling waste. This waste must first be separated for proper management.

After separation of the mixture, the drilling fluid that is obtained can be reused. But for the solids that are obtained, proper measures need to be taken so that there is minimum wastage and no harm is caused to the environment.

The first step is to take care that the waste which is generated is as minimum as possible. This can be done by slightly changing the way, the hole is drilled. That is instead of conventional drilling other drillings options must be considered like;

1] Directional Drilling: Here instead of going directly vertical, drilling is done by taking angles while going down. Its variations are extended reach drilling, horizontal drilling and multiple laterals.

2] Drilling holes with small diameter: Technologies used to obtain holes with smaller diameter are slim hole drilling and coiled tubing drilling.

3] Techniques in which less drilling fluid is required like pneumatic drilling.

The second step is to use those fluids that does not harm our environment. Examples of such fluids are Synthetic Based muds (SBM) that biodegradable, does not accumulate and digs clean holes and has almost no toxicity.

Third is that, the wastes that are obtained must be reused as much as possible. The fluid that is obtained can be reused again as a drilling fluid. The solid cuttings that are obtained can be reused by spreading it on road and preventing road erosion or using it as a construction material.

Lastly, proper care must be taken for those solids that cannot be used and needs to be disposed. For pits may be build or may be dumped as landfills, where another layer of soil or other material.

Kosun- Solids Control Company/ Drilling Waste Management Company

08/22/201710/23/2017

Drilling Waste Management Company-Kosun

Drilling waste management is the name of a major headache for the companies involved in drilling in different gas and oil mines. Due to the increased awareness of people regarding environment, drilling companies have to perform an extensive procedure before disposing the drilling waste. It is a very complex process in which the intervention of the professionals is required. So, drilling companies must seek the expertise help from a waste management engineer in order to ensure the proper disposal of shale shaker generated waste without disturbing the environment.

Drilling waste management entails all processes and precautions required or recommended to ensure a safe environment. Drilling waste contains spent fluids and drilling cuttings that result from the drilling process. The spent fluids and drilling cuttings that are referred to as drilling waste have no use in the ensuing drilling process therefore must be disposed of. However the disposal of this waste requires that the set environmental management standards and regulations are adhered to for the maintenance of a safe environment and also in order to avoid legal disputes and penalties.

Drilling waste management therefore is concerned with using materials, substances and facilities in the drilling process that minimize drilling waste while at the same time employ proper disposal of waste in a manner that reduces toxicity.

Drilling waste management company – Kosun, from China, are searching drilling mud treatment and disposal methods for 25 years, manufacturing quality drilling cuttings waste management system and serving the clients around the world.

Kosun- Solids Control Company

08/18/2017

TOP brand Drilling Waste Management Companies

TOP brand Drilling Waste Management Company-KOSUN, founded in 1992, is the leader Company in China’s solids control industry, and specialize in drilling waste management related machines, construction machines and environment production machines. such as solids control equipment, centrifuges, HDD machine, pumps, shakers, and etc., including 25 categories of products. and can also customize packaged design and matching products.

Drilling waste management company – Kosun, from China, are searching drilling mud treatment and disposal methods for 25 years, manufacturing quality drilling cuttings waste management system and serving the clients around the world.

1.Mud agitator manufacturer – Kosun producing the drilling mud agitator mainly used to agitate and mix the drilling mud to prevent solids particles from depositing in the circulating tank and to stabilize the performance of drilling fluids.

2.Screw Conveyor:KOSUN screw conveyor (Auger)can be used in drilling waste management projects, providing an effective and low-cost drilling cuttings transport system for offshore and onshore drilling rigs. Adopting a multi-sectional composite structure with each section of 12 feet (3.66m), the screw conveyor can be flexibly assembled on different drilling sites, with characteristics of simple operation, stable structure, strong adaptability and high safety, significantly improving the operating efficiency of equipment and reducing the cost and resources. The flights of screw conveyer adopt wear-resistant material to ensure its service life.

The screw conveyor is designed based on strict safety standards. The U-shaped trough is equipped with grid shield to prevent foreign matters from entering and guarantee the safety of operators. The frame at the bottom can protect and support the screw conveyor, ensuring its structural stability.

3.3 phase Decanter Centrifuge: 3 phase decanter centrifuge can be used in following cleaning, solid remove and impurity remove 3 phase separation field: tar, pesticide, oil filed recovered oil, used oil, waste oil & fat from restaurant, palm oil, oil tank cleaning, oil refining sludge, oil station cleaning sludge, olive oil, orange oil, gas floating sludge, food waste sludge.

4.Kosun machinery (KOSUN) waste drilling fluid production of cuttings dryer for oil-based mud, by centrifugal separation principle, can effectively recover the cuttings in liquid phase composition, the solid phase becomes very dry, the drilling mud in the recovery, reduce the cost of drilling operation, but also reduces the the pollution of the environment, in accordance with international emission standards and environmental protection requirements. It can be used for drilling cuttings in land and ocean drilling.With the continuous improvement of environmental protection requirements, the major oil fields are faced with the problem of drilling wastedisposal.

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08/03/201707/20/2020

The newest drilling waste treatment equipment-Kosun

The main components of the drilling waste(drilling waste treatment) are cuttings, excess drilling fluids, hydrocarbons and water and are mostly categorized as hazardous waste.The disposal of these wastes are, in most locations around the world, highly regulated. The solids in the drill cuttings are usually separated and the cleaned off drill mud residue, as well as the produced water are usually cleaned at considerable costs.

drilling waste treatment equipment

The first step in managing drilling wastes is to separate the solid cuttings from the liquid drilling mud. Once solid and liquid drilling wastes have been separated, companies can use a variety of technologies and practices to manage the wastes. For some applications, drilling wastes are solidified or stabilized prior to their ultimate management practice. The management technologies and practices can be grouped into three major categories: waste minimization, recycle/reuse, and disposal.

The Following information is more about Kosun drilling waste treatment equipment：

–Vertical Cuttings Dryer( Vertical Centrifuge) can perform solid/liquid separation through centrifugal separation. The vertical cuttings dryer can effectively recover the liquid phase in drilling cuttings, making the solid phase become very dry. It is suitable for water-base mud, oil-base mud and synthetic base mud. By recovering the mud in drilling cuttings, the vertical cuttings dryer can reduce the drilling cost and cut down environmental pollution. With handling capacity of 40-60 T/h, the oil on cuttings (OOC) of drilling cuttings can be reduced to lower than 5% (w/w) after treatment, meeting the international emissions standards and environmental protection requirements. The vertical centrifuge can also be applicable for drilling waste management in onshore and offshore drilling.

–Hi-G Dryer is used to recover the mud from drilling cuttings,so as to reduce the liquid/oil content in drilling cuttings to as low as about 10%(w/w) and recover part of the drilling mud,so that the drilling cost can be reduced and the drilling waste volume can be cut down,for the purpose of reducing environmental pollution.The Hi-G dryer suitable for both of WBM and OBM.

-DC Series Decanter Centrifuge is used in separating suspension of solids phase with particle ≥2μm in diameter for drilling mud and fluids handling.

-Screw Pump is an ideal pump used to feed drilling fluids to decanter centrifuge since drilling fluids is pushed to proceed along axial direction evenly. Therefore, the inner flow speed is kept low, volume unchanged and pressure stable so that vortex and agitation are prevented. Screw Pump is useful for wet mud drilling mud waste management and cuttings transportation.

–Screw conveyor (Auger) can be used in drilling waste management projects, providing an effective and low-cost drilling cuttings transport system for offshore and onshore drilling rigs. Adopting a multi-sectional composite structure with each section of 12 feet (3.66m), the screw conveyor can be flexibly assembled on different drilling sites, with characteristics of simple operation, stable structure, strong adaptability and high safety, significantly improving the operating efficiency of equipment and reducing the cost and resources. The flights of screw conveyer adopt wear-resistant material to ensure its service life.

Kosun- Solid Control System Company

07/13/201707/13/2017

Drilling Waste Management System – Containment and Handling

Drilling Waste Management

Drilling waste management is more and more important. The necessity of energy is increasing relentlessly. People are becoming more and more power hungry. With the increase in the demand, drilling companies are trying to cope up with the ever increasing demand by setting up new drilling sites.

A major issue that any drilling company has to handle is how to manage the drilling wastes generated from shale shaker cuttings. Drilling waste management companies are trying to sort out the most environment friendly method for the waste management.

A major step of drilling waste management plan is managing the containment of the wastes generated by shale shaker. A discussion about the issue is given below.

How the drilling waste is contained and handled: The first issue that should be consider in containing and handling drilling waste is the geographical features of the certain drilling sites.

Containment and handling of drilling wastes are no longer to simply on shore based as more and more companies are engaging in off shore drilling for new source of oil and gas. The most common way of managing shale shaker generated drilling wastes is building and using sumps.

Different types of drilling wastes including cement returns drilling wasted and drilling cuttings are contained in a sump. The sumps that are used to contain drilling wastes should not be built in non – polluted area of surface.

A sump inspection must be performed by experts right before the waste disposed in it. A waste tracking system for the drilling wastes must be developed to control the flow of wastes in the sumps.

A regular and efficient inspection schedule must be maintained by the employees in order to ensure that waste contamination sumps are in subtle condition. Another important issue for handling and contamination of drilling waste is decommissioning the sumps. When any sump is decommissioned, drilling authority must ensure that there is zero possibility of further contamination.

07/06/201711/01/2017

How to Optimize the Performance – Drilling Waste Decanter Centrifuge

Drilling Waste

A centrifuge is a device that works on the concept of centrifugal force. The centrifuge makes an object rotate around its own fixed axis, making a circular motion at a very high speed. A decanter centrifuge does the work of separating the mixture of solid and liquid in industries.

In a decanter centrifuge , when the mixture if fed, the centrifuge is rotated at a very high speed. As the centrifuge spins in a circular motion, perpendicular force is exerted on the mixture. This causes the denser substance in the mixture to move out in a radial direction, that is, towards the surface of imaginary circle, while the substance that is less dense moves inside radially, that is at the center.

In drilling waste management in industries, this process helps in separating solids from liquids like oil, so that the oil can be recycled and reused, thus protecting our precious natural oils.
As a decanter centrifuge is used in many industries like Food Processing industries, oil industries, waste water treatment plants and chemical industries , it is very important to optimize its performance so that there is minimum wastage and maximum efficiency.

Criteria for improved performance of drilling waste decanter centrifuge:
   Before feeding the mixture to the decanter centrifuges , the mixture should preferably fed to a shale shaker. This shale shaker will separate big solids from the mixture. Then the resulting mixture must be fed to the decanter for further filtration. This will reduce the wear and tear of the decanter.
   Right amount of centrifugal force must be applied.
   The Speed of the decanter must be optimal so that the solids in the mixture are safely transported out of the machine.
   The decanter centrifuge is prone to abrasion as the solids in the mixture may rub against the walls of the device. So proper care must be taken by using abrasion resistant material especially at the input zone and at the solid output zone.

07/06/201707/06/2017

Drilling Waste Cuttings Treatment – Pit Less Mud System

Drilling Waste

Oil and gas drilling is one of the most prolific business now a days. A very complex mechanism is used to drill oil and gas from the mine. A very common equipment that is seen in oil and gas drilling area is a shale shaker.

There are two basic approaches of drilling using a shale shaker .
The first one is the solid control system which is very popular for drilling now a days.
The second approach is the pit less mud system for drilling. Today the focus will be given on the pit less mud system for drilling.

What is pit less mud system for drilling: The pit less mud system for drilling is basically a process in which no pit is dug on the surface while for collecting cuttings from drilling.

In pit less mud system for drilling waste cuttings treatment , a very important thing that is required to maintain is a proper integration between the waste management system and solid maintaining process. When the waste cuttings are taken out from shale shakers , two particular equipments named G force drying shaker and vertical cutting dryer are used to extract the liquid and to make the cuttings drier.

After that, the dry cuttings are transported from the shale shaker unit to the disposal unit. In that stage, the waste cuttings can be disposed on the surface without digging any pit. In many oil and gas drilling sites, a more environment friendly approach is taken to dispose drilling waste cuttings.

In that case, the drilling waste cuttings are taken to another unit for the final processing. In this unit, the waste cuttings are processed via solidification process. Waste cuttings can also be processed by thermal desorption machine. Thus, the drilling waste cuttings become contamination free and environment friendly. Then, the waste cuttings can be disposed without any fear.

07/05/201707/20/2020

Drilling Mud Waste Management System of Kosun Strategies

Drilling Mud Waste Management

Drilling Mud Waste management is one of the major concerns for the drilling companies all around the world. It is simply impossible to avoid pollution while shale shaker perform drilling. The main sources of drilling waste are the fluid removed drilling cuttings that are cut by the shale shaker.

Drilling companies are undergoing through an extensive pressure from various environment activists all around the world. So, an environment friendly waste management system is a prime requirement for the drilling companies. Several waste management strategies are taken into action for different types of waste while drilling. Here is a discussion about different types of drilling waste management strategies.

Different approaches for waste management: In order to manage the waste of a drilling site, the first step is to set up necessary solid control equipment like shale shaker. Till now the most popular drilling waste management strategy that is used is dilution. In the dilution process for controlling solids, a certain amount of fluid is extracted from the cuttings and are gathered into a pit. The rest of the cuttings are transformed into a concentrated solid after another extraction of fluid is executed to those by adding any liquid like water or oil.

After this, the drilling wastes become ready to be disposed. In the next step, it is imperative to determine the surface area and the amount of waste that is required to handle. While disposing the wastes, drilling companies can use G force drying shaker to make the wastes radiation and contamination free. Another consideration in drilling waste management is managing the cement returns.

Sometimes cement returns are simply disposed by following the mix bury cover system. In this process, the drilling waste with cement returns is gathered altogether and transformed into hard cement pit. Then, the hard pits of cement returns are grinded into small pieces. After that, the grinded cement pits can be disposed. The whole process of management must not take more than a year.

07/03/201711/01/2017

Drilling Waste Cuttings Treatment of Pit Less Mud System

Drilling Waste

Drilling waste cuttings treatment of Pit Less Mud Systems are also known as closed loop systems. In this closed loop systems solid control equipment are used to minimize the wastage of natural oils used in drilling. The solid control equipment that are used in pit less mud system are:

1) Shale Shaker :
This is the first equipment in solid control equipment for drilling waste cutting. It consists of s screen that does the work of separating the solid and liquid from the mixture. The screen comprises of mesh clot that is attached to a frame using tension. This is usually used for separating very large solids from the liquid. The slurry that is obtained is stored into a tank and then again sent for further filtering to a mud cleaner.

2) Mud Cleaner :
A mud cleaner combines two processes of desanders and desilters. Here they use a device that separates sand and silt particles from the drilling fluid. As these sand particles are fine, they cannot be removed by a shale shaker. Desander is used for removing solids that are abrasive in nature and dedilters are used to remove silts. The resultant mixture is then sent to a Decanter centrifuge.

3) Decanter Centrifuge :
It is a fast rotating device that uses centrifugal force and sedimentation principle to remove the solid particles from the drilling fluid. Here the machine is rotated very fast so that the solid which is of high density is forced to go out and the liquid which is of less density is forced to go at the center.

After the mixture is separated, the drilling fluid that is obtained can be reused as a drilling fluid. This not only saves the cost but also helps to prevent the wastage of our limited natural resource.

Also the solid that are obtained are first dried before disposing them or resuing thwm for some special purposes.
Thus some part of the drilling waste cuttings is reused and some part of it properly disposed in an ecofriendly manner.