World Bank reports that there is approximately 9 billion metric tonnes of oil sludge on the planet. This oil sludge is generated as a by product of the oil drilling and refining process, and consists of water, oil, solids and a range of chemicals that may have been introduced to the sludge at some point in the process.
Topics: Oil Sludge Treatment, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Industry News, oil recovery, treating oil sludge
The MIST 323 system is used in both oil slops treatment and oil sludge treatment, and is capable of treating both solid waste and liquid waste. Solid waste including drill cuttings, oil sand, and heavy oil sludge. Liquid waste including oil slops, oil based mud waste, decommissioning waste, well washings, and refinery waste.
Topics: Oil Sludge Treatment, oil recovery, oil slops treatment, oil waste treatment process, MIST systems
January is MIST month at SASES. No better time to go back in time and see how it all started. We have now treated over 60,000 tons of crude oil sludge and slops at the Grangemouth refinery and recovered over 12,000 tons of high quality crude oil. Somewhere over 80,000bbl of crude recovered over a 10 year period. How did we do it?
Topics: oil recovery, Refinery waste treatment, oil sludge
SASES was supplied with a sample of oil slops waste (pictured right) from operations in Texas, USA where an effective chemical dosing and separation process was being sought. For this project, SASES were set the task of maximising oil and solids recovery so that the clean water fraction could be recovered for polishing and safe disposal via salt-water disposal wells. This would require SASES products to effectively split the waste into three distinct phases of oil, water and solids, in order to maximise the recovery of clean oil thus retaining a high water quality for disposal.
Topics: oil recovery, oil slops treatment, oil slops waste
I’d like to share a recent experience I had in Malaysia as an opportunity to introduce oil sludge from another source that we have not yet covered: the international shipping industry.
Topics: oil recovery, oil sludge, malaysia, south east asia
SASES recieve many oil sludge waste samples, for this particular project the sample provided was black, oil coloured and contained a high oil content. The sample had been recovered from tank bottom sludge from a crude oil storage tank and sent to us by one of our customers to try and create a three phase split of oil, water and solids.
Topics: Oil Sludge Treatment, oil recovery, tank bottom sludge
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Topics: oil recovery, oil waste treatment, waste management, Refinery waste treatment, oil sludge
If you’re involved in treating oil-contaminated slops and sludges, it’s likely you use a centrifuge in your treatment process.
Topics: oil recovery, waste management, OIil Slop Treatment, oil sludge
If you’re involved in treating oil-contaminated slops and sludges, it’s likely you either use, or have considered using, chemicals in your treatment process.
Topics: Oil Sludge Treatment, oil recovery, oil waste treatment, oil sludge
SAS Environmental Services helps refineries and waste management companies save millions of dollars every year by maximizing oil recovery and minimizing hazardous waste volumes.
The MIST system (Microemulsion Injection & Separation Technology) and the SAS-ES chemistry effectively split even the toughest oil sludge into its main parts of oil, water and solids without the need for costly heating or multi-million dollar engineering systems.
When using the SAS-ES MIST system to treat oil sludge and refinery waste, the recovered oil is of extremely good quality and can be immediately returned to the refinery or sold on the open market. The resulting solid phase is a fraction of what it normally would be and contains only small amounts of oil and water, significantly reducing disposal costs.
Topics: oil recovery, oil waste treatment, waste management, Refinery waste treatment, oil sludge