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World Oilfield Forum
I have heard about a technology going into use up in the Williston Basin in which they combine what was described to me as fly ash, with the cuttings, in order to make a concrete hard solid in the pit system. It is supposed to be combined with an auger style mixing process, then allowed to harden by a chemical reaction of sorts. Very similar to casing cement I assume, little of this, little of that and it gets warm, makes some steam from the pile and then it hardens.
Supposed to be able to put it into the pit, and within a few hours it has "kicked off" and will harden to nearly a cement texture. After a few years this will degrade, decompose, rehabilitate itself and is from what I hear environmentally safe, sound and clean. I have been told that the state of ND is requiring this for reclamation of drilling sites, and is having a hard time finding equipment, man hours, etc. to have this process done.
Sounds to me like they collect cuttings from the shaker with a bobcat or the rigs payloader, put it into some kind of a hopper and it discharges either right into the pit or use bobcat to haul it to the pit system and dump it in. Couple of guys work round the clock and play a bunch of cribbage when building the curve because there are not many cuttings to rehabilitate at that time.
Just wondering if anyone has this type of set up, has heard about it, knows the regulations surrounding it or anything else that would be helpful.
Tags: Bakken, Basin, Cuttings, Drilling, Rig, Williston
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Permalink Reply by Kurt Little on 
Permalink Reply by Paul Tinnes on What rig do you work on, for what company are you drilling and what is your overall view of the operation? Thanks for the quick reply, but I am looking for specifics about this including a "name" for the operation.
Everyone knows what a centrifuge does to the mud by name, what is this process even called?
Permalink Reply by Shawn Kern on Solids Control hands keep up with most of it the pits that are being used in ND especially are only for cuttings there is suppose to be no fluid in these pits as far as regs go.
Permalink Reply by Shawn Kern on Permalink Reply by Shawn Kern on The process of using a centrifuge and mixing cuttings is called "Solids Control" hands mix the cuttings with fly ash and dry the cuttings up enough to be hauled away in a tractor trailer. It goes to a reclamation center and they take it from there. This process of using a Closed Loop System is an up and coming thing and will probably be used on all locations from ND to TX and From NM to PA as far as I hear.
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