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WATER QUALITY

The waste water from gas well drilling can be and usually is salty, and contains various hydrocarbons which can create health problems

Throughout the lower-48 states, more than half of all onshore gas wells are classified as low-volume stripper wells. On average, each of the more than 191,000 US wells in this category produces about 16,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day.

Together the wells account for about eight percent of US gas production, but their numbers are growing.

In the last seven years, some 30,000 gas wells have been reclassified as stripper wells. As their production declines, many are being plugged and abandoned.

The cost of waste water disposal is a major factor in the economic "tightrope" that many of these well's operators must walk.

As the flow of gas declines, the influx of water into these wells increases. Gas producers often must truck the waste water to disposal wells that can be several miles from the production site.

Excluding trucking costs, waste water disposal can cost as much as $2 per barrel, costs that must be absorbed in the overall economics of a gas field.

NOTE: for the entire article go to http://www.fossil.energy.gov/news/techlines/2000/tl_stripgas3.html

Because of the nature of the beast (Waste from drilling operations) ASEI has compiled and tested a method to gather, separate, and recycle the vast majority (up to 95%) of the water waste from a oil / gas drilling operation.

Utilizing technologies gleened from the US Military combined with reclamation and recycling systems that have proven themselves, we have successful tested our method of water recovery. (see photo) The dark (dirty) water is from a active drilling operation in Arkansas, the clearer water is the result of our ability to separate the materials.

Our final separation system will be able to take (dirty) water and return it to at a least the MINIMUM of the drinking water, and at best to obtain a rate of NO MORE than .02 ppm (parts per million) of contamination.

Injection wells in petroleum production

What are they and what do they do?

Steam, carbon dioxide, water, and other substances can be injected into an oil-producing unit in order to maintain reservoir pressure, heat the oil or lower its viscosity, allowing it to flow to a producing well nearby.

The water used for water injection is usually some sort of brine, but it can also be made up of other sources that are treated. For example, in some reservoirs water is produced with the hydrocarbons, removed from the production and re-injected into the formation.

source: Schlumberger

While production wells can be converted into injection wells, water-injection wells are also drilled specifically for this purpose. Water is then pumped into the reservoir, or gravity can help to push the liquid into the formation. This solution positions water tanks on hills or somewhere above the well, and the water simply is fed into the wellbore.

source: Schlumberger

Injection wells have been involved in a number of controversial lawsuits and permit battles, as well as high-profile groundwater contamination cases, usually resulting from improper handling of the waste at the surface prior to injection.

Other Oil and Gas Industry Impacts

The EPA estimates that about one million tons of hazardous waste is produced each year in American oil fields. The disposal of this waste has the potential to affect groundwater. Until 1969, oil companies typically disposed of salt water and chemicals in open pits, creeks and roads. The chemicals used during the oil-well drilling process and disposed of in these pits include such highly toxic elements as barium, arsenic and cadmium.

ASEI put a solution on the table.

Through our process Injection well water can be recycled for safe use or disposal using no toxins or contaminates in the process.

Small process... big results.

Contact ASIE for details

Well water rig sample provided by PetroHawk Energy Corporation