Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Produced Water -- BR -- October 6, 2020

This phenomenon was brought to my attention by a reader about a year ago, maybe two years ago. Time flies when having fun.

The well:

  • 34058, 541, BR, Kermit 8-8-32MBH, Pershing, t8/18; cum 241K 8/20; fracked 7/1/19 7/9/19; 7.1 million gallons of water; 87.7% water by mass;

Look at the rate of produced water in this well (see this post): 

BR pumped 169,000 bbls of water down this well for fracking. Look how slowly BR allowed "produced water" to return to the surface. This is simply incredible. After the frack:

  • month 1: 7K bbls
  • month: 2: 10K
  • month 3: 7K
  • month 4: 6K
  • month 5: 5K
  • month 6: --
  • month 7: --
  • month 8: 3K
  • month 9: 9K
  • month 10: 2K
  • month: 11: 5K
  • month 12: 0K

Compared to what I'm seeing by most operators, this is absolutely incredible.

An unintended (positive) consequence: a lot less "craziness" with regard to taking all that produced water away in the first six months; BR "flattens that curve" over two years. 

3 comments:

  1. You ever hear of black walnut shells used as a separating media for produced water? I used to work for a firm that sold these separating systems to the SAGD oilfields in Canada and kern river operations in CA.

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    1. You know, there's some irony or something there. In fact, I do remember black walnuts, or my mind is playing games with me, but I do vaguely remember that for some reason now that you bring it. But on a multiple choice exam or a matching test I never would have gotten the answer correct. LOL.

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    2. Wiki has an entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_shell_filter.

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