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05/17/202405/20/2024

How To Effectively Deal With Drilling Waste？

How to effectively deal with drilling waste？KOSUN gives you the answer!

Drilling waste/mud is one of the major sources of pollution in the oil and gas industry. Due to engineering requirements, drilling mud is often mixed with substances such as oil, water, and organic clays. In recent years, the use of oil-based mud, water-based mud, and composite-based mud has increased, leading to escalating costs and environmental pollution issues.

The emergence of mud treatment systems has successfully addressed the challenge of inefficient and environmentally friendly treatment of drilling waste. The main processing process of Xi’an KOSUN’s drilling waste treatment system refers to the harmless treatment of drilling waste from the wellhead before landing. The waste mud in the waste mud pool can also be diluted and then classified and utilized for treatment, realizing the mobilization of drilling environmental protection devices. Mud that has been effectively treated can be reused, reducing frictional resistance, lowering accident rates, and improving wellbore quality.

Drilling cuttings treatment method:

Different from traditional methods, the mud system transforms the treatment of waste mud from “end-of-pipe treatment” to “whole-process control”. The waste mud is diluted, coagulated, and separated into cuttings, mud cakes, and water. Solid substances in the mud are treated through washing, coagulation separation, and chemical reaction to meet discharge standards. Harmful substances and chloride ions in the mud are dissolved into the water, which is then dehydrated into mud cakes by vacuum adsorption or squeezing. Meanwhile, the centrifugally separated wastewater undergoes concentration treatment through flotation sedimentation, filtration systems, and reverse osmosis systems. The treated wastewater meeting standards can be reused for drilling circulation.

Steps for drilling mud waste treatment:

Waste materials separated from drilling waste, such as cuttings, can be purified, dried, and recycled as concrete materials.

The mud water produced from washing cuttings can be chemically treated, destabilized, coagulated, and separated into mud cakes, which can be mixed with clay or shale in proportion for brick making.

The separated filtrate undergoes pretreatment processes such as destabilization, coagulation, flotation, oxidation, and adsorption filtration to remove major pollutants. It can be used for oilfield reinjection, safe strata reinjection, or discharged up to standards. After treatment by the sewage treatment system, wastewater can achieve standard discharge.

Considerations for drilling mud waste treatment:

Xi’an KOSUN’s drilling waste treatment system is the only environmentally friendly device in China that truly achieves harmless and green treatment of drilling waste mud, combining the most advanced mud purification and drying treatment technology at home and abroad, and after three years of research and multiple improvements and upgrades. The use of the mud treatment system eliminates the need to transport solid waste from the wellsite for centralized treatment, saving transportation costs and processing space, and making environmental protection efforts more effective.

05/16/202405/16/2024

Drilling fluid vibrating screen is a solid control equipment in drilling mud solid phase control system

Xi ‘an KOSUN oil solid control drilling fluid vibrating screen is the primary solid control equipment in the drilling mud solid phase control system. It separates a large amount of drilling cuttings carried by the mud from the well sheet so that the mud can enter the secondary separation equipment. The screen can be used alone, or can be used in double or multiple pairs.

Xi ‘an KOSUN oil solid control drilling fluid vibrating screen is a high frequency linear vibration machine, it is equipped with three screen frames and two vibration motors, and has the characteristics of manual adjustment of screen frame angle (AWD) during drilling, LS583 vibrating screen can be operated between -1° and +5° adjustment screen frame angle. Thanks to structural design innovations, drilling fluid shakers can efficiently separate cuttings. The vibration motor is fixed to the screen frame with a high-strength support beam and positioned on the screen bed. By positioning the vibration motor in this way, the vibration force (G-force) can be directly applied to the screen. The vibration isolation device can protect the base frame from the vibration of the screen frame. The mud is fed through the feed box into the shaker.

The main components of Xi ‘an KOSUN oil solid control drilling fluid vibrating screen include screen frame, vibration motor, screen tensioning system, AWD Angle adjustment system, locking device, feed box, electrical system, etc.

Xi ‘an KOSUN drilling fluid vibrating screen is widely used in oil drilling, trenchless horizontal directional crossing, coalbed methane drilling, shale gas drilling, river sludge environmental protection and other mud purification treatment fields.

09/13/202309/12/2023

An Overview of the Drilling Dig Mud Tank System: Composition and Function

The components and applications of a drilling rig mud tank system may include:

Mud Tank: It is are large container used to store and circulate drilling fluids (mud) during the drilling process. It has various compartments for different purposes such as mixing, settling, and storing mud.
Shale Shaker: It is a vibrating screen that separates large solids and cuttings from the drilling mud. It helps in maintaining the consistency and quality of the mud.
Mud Agitators: These are mechanical devices that stir the drilling mud in the tanks to prevent settling and maintain a uniform mixture. They ensure the mud remains well-mixed and homogeneous.
Desander and Desilter: These are hydrocyclone units used for removing finer solids, sand, silt, etc. from the drilling mud. Desander removes larger particles, while desilter removes smaller particles.
Centrifuge: It is a machine that uses centrifugal force to separate the components of liquid and solid particles or a mixture of liquid and liquid.
Mud Pumps: The mud pumps are used to circulate the drilling mud from the mud tanks down the drill string and back up to the surface. They provide the necessary pressure to enable drilling operations.
Vacuum degasser: The vacuum degasser is usually used to remove gases, such as methane and other harmful vapors, from the drilling mud. It helps in maintaining the safety and stability of the drilling process.

The main applications of a drilling rig mud tank system include:

Controlling and maintaining the properties of drilling mud, such as viscosity, density, and pH.
Removing solid particles and cuttings from the drilling mud to ensure proper drilling performance.
Recycling and reusing the drilling mud to minimize waste and reduce costs.
Managing and disposing of drilling waste in an environmentally responsible manner.
Providing a safe and efficient drilling operation by controlling the drilling fluid properties.

Drilling rig mud tank system plays an important role in oil drilling and other industrial fields. It stores, blends, agitates and mixes mud, performs filtration and solid-liquid separation, and controls mud circulation and circulation parameters. The application of a drilling rig mud tank system not only improves the efficiency and safety of drilling operations, but also plays a positive role in environmental protection.

KOSUN- China Solids Control Leader&Drilling Waste Management Expert
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08/11/202308/11/2023

Water-based Drilling Mud Treatment Process

The solid control system is an indispensable system function module in oil drilling operations, the traditional solid control system is usually composed of a circulation tank, shale shaker, cleaner, centrifuge, etc., with a high cost of purchase and subsequent use, high energy consumption, low reliability, in order to meet the zero discharge environmental regulations need to support the corresponding drilling mud treatment system and other drawbacks. To this end, we have proposed an integrated solution to replace the traditional water-based waste mud treatment system and drilling waste system based on years of practical experience. It has been successfully applied to an oilfield drilling site in Changqing and has achieved good economic and energy-saving environmental benefits.

Water-based drilling waste disposal process

Wellhead return mud discharge to circulation settling tank;
The mud in the circulating settling tank is settled step by step by way of high overflow and then pumped back to the solid control system with the submersible sludge pump for reuse, and the solid phase is transported to the broken rubber tank with the excavator;
Three agitators are installed on the rubber-breaking tank, and the materials entering the rubber-breaking tank are added to flocculate;
The filter press slurry pump suction broken glue tank flocculated material to the filter press for filtering;
The clear liquid after pressing and filtering can be continuously transported to the storage tank;
The solid phase after filtration is transported to the buried tank through the belt conveyor;
Use the excavator to transfer the solid phase of the buried tank.

09/22/202009/22/2020

Features and advantages of KOSUN drilling waste management system

The main equipment of KOSUN drilling waste management system includes: shale shaker, vertical cuttings dryer, drilling fluid centrifuge, screw conveyor, screw pump and other equipment.

Technical features and advantages of KOSUN drilling waste management system:

– Using advanced mud slurping technology, the useful liquid phase in drilling cuttings can be recovered effectively, achieving high efficiency curing treatment.

– Low moisture content of the treated useless solid phase makes it easy to transport.

– Extremely effective for cuttings drying of oil – and composite – based mud.

– Modular design, moving transportation convenient and fast.

– Simple and practical processing flow, large processing capacity.

– The whole set of equipment is easy to operate, low cost of use and maintenance.

Mud zero discharge system, also known as drilling waste management system. With the improvement of environmental protection requirements, higher requirements have been put forward for cuttings disposal in drilling site. KOSUN drilling waste management system not only can solve the environmental problems, at the same time secondary recycling the waste of the solids control system, reduce on-site damage to the surrounding environment.

KOSUN- China Solids Control Leader&Drilling Waste Management Expert
Email: sales2@adkosun.com
Wechat:+86 18792396268
Contact person: Lily Wang
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07/29/202007/29/2020

Drilling mud cutting waste treatment and management system

Drilling mud cutting waste treatment and management system equipment:

Vertical Cuttings Dryer is a components for the cuttings drying by centrifugal G force. Dewatering Unit provides a process of chemically enhanced configuration to remove the fine solids less than 5 microns from the water based drilling fluids.In a result to reduce the waste based mud waste. High G drying shaker is a simple and econonic way to reduce the fluids on the drilling cuttings.Waste decanter centrifuge is to separate the fine solids in the drilling waste. Screw Conveyor is the product for transfer the drilling cuttings or drilling waste. Centrifuge feed pump include the screw pump and vertical centrifugal slurry pump for different applications. Drilling Cuttings Transfer Pump is a vacuum pump for transfer drilling cuttings and waste.

KOSUN provide the full line of Drilling mud cutting waste treatment and management system for the pitless drilling, with KOSUN Solids Control products, operators is able to run the closed loop mud circulation system to reduce the cost for drilling waste disposal. KOSUN Drilling mud cutting waste treatment and management system is a packages system for the drilling rig to dry the OBM, SBM or WBM drilling cuttings and recycling the drilling fluids after cleaning by the decanter centrifuge.

Formation drilled cuttings can be handled by various methods, depending largely on environmental requirements, geographic location, and geological conditions. Cuttings must be transported and prepared prior to final disposition, which may include reinjection into subsurface formations. Optimal drilling waste management demands high performance in surface and subsurface engineering analysis and unparalleled diagnostic expertise—before, during, and after the operation.

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09/14/201707/20/2020

Features of Drilling Waste Management System

KOSUN is the professional Drilling Waste Management Manufacturer and exporter. KOSUN can design and produce the Drilling Waste Management system and Drilling Waste Management equipment as requirment of customers.

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 system, taking “zero discharge of drilling waste” as the drilling waste management standard.

Drilling waste management has put forward higher requirements with the constant improvement of the environmental protection requirement. It can not only be very good to solve the environmental problems, but also can do recycling to the waste of the solids control system. While drilling cutting management system maximize retains the useful mud, and it concentrated solidify after processing of drilling cuttings. That helps to reduce the destruction of the environment in oil filed worker.

In the process of oil and gas drilling, general shallow wells would use water-based mud, and deep wells would use oil-based mud, that makes conventional solids control equipment work effectively on recovery of heavy metal and stone and useful drilling fluid. However, these cutting fluids containing heavy metals and solids (presumably oil content at 12%~18%) would caused great damage on nearby vegetation, soil, groundwater and other natural environment building and human living environment if they are not managed to emissions.

Features of Drilling Waste Management System:

Good Result of Water-based Mud: 6%-10% Water Content.
Overwhelmingly overcomes the difficulty in disposing the waste all or disposing them effectively, which combines the technology brought from Italy with advantages of the same products abroad.
Stable Performance:KOSUN Drilling Waste Management is to control the volume of water containing in the drilling mud and stabilize the liquid performance, which achieves the purpose of managing the drilling waste and recycle the drilling mud without damaging the water performance.
Environmental and Economical: This cutting dryer system realizes the social value of environmental protection, maximizing the usage of drilling fluid economically.

Kosun- China Solids Control Leader&Drilling Waste Mangemnet Expert

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

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.

07/06/201707/06/2017

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.