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Overview of Environmental Management by Drill Cutting Re-Injection Through Hydraulic  Fracturing in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry

Overview of Environmental Management by Drill Cutting Re-Injection Through Hydraulic Fracturing in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry

Full Title: Overview of Environmental Management by Drill Cutting Re-Injection Through Hydraulic  Fracturing in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry
Author(s): Mansoor Zoveidavianpoor, Ariffin Samsuri and Seyed Reza Shadizadeh
Publisher(s): Intech
Publication Date: January 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):

For the reason of worldwide increased activities of upstream oil and gas industry for  future energy demands which will be associated with more waste generation, zero  discharge is considered an environmentally friendly approach of complying with  environmental legislations. Drilling is one of the major operations in upstream oil and gas  industry that can potentially impact the environment through generation of different  types of wastes. The drilling process generates millions of barrels of drilling waste each  year; primarily used drilling fluids and drill cuttings especially oil-contaminated drill  cuttings. In the early years of the oil industry, little attention was given to environmental  management of drilling wastes. The rapid development of drilling operation in order to  fulfill the global energy demands and so the drilling environmental regulatory  requirements have become stricter, drilling and mud system technologies have advanced,  and many companies have voluntarily adopted waste management options with more  benign environmental impacts that those used in the past. Moreover, it is crucial to find  out why drilling wastes are important nowadays, how they generated and by which  means those waste could be disposed off with higher efficiency and acceptable HSE and  economically concerns. Drill Cutting Re-Injection (DCRI) is one of the processes that  developed as an environmentally friendly and zero discharge technology in upstream oil  and gas industry.

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