Produced Water
As oil fields mature, enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods such as polymer, surfactant-polymer, and alkali-surfactant-polymer flooding is used to produce oil not recoverable by conventional methods. MYCELX REGEN media increases production up to 30% over nutshell filters while protecting downstream equipment.
Up
to98%
Oil Recovery
<10PPM
Oil Discharge
0
Chemicals Required
Designed to handle EOR back-produced water, the REGEN system significantly outperforms nutshell filters in oil and solids removal while protecting downstream equipment.
Regenerative Media Filter
Applications
Different EOR methods inject different fluids into the reservoir, each creating its own produced water treatment demands downstream.
The most widely used EOR method, injecting water to maintain reservoir pressure and sweep oil toward production wells.
Polymer, surfactant, and alkali agents mobilize residual oil unreachable by waterflood alone, producing complex, difficult-to-treat produced water.
Treated water is returned to the reservoir across all EOR methods, cutting freshwater demand and disposal costs.
Performance Benefits
Every MYCELX deployment is engineered to maximize production uptime and minimize the total cost of cEOR water management.
Enables assets with substantial remaining oil reserves to keep producing competitively in challenging economic climates, extending field life and ROI.
Reliably treats produced water to meet reinjection specifications, eliminating costly production shutdowns caused by water quality excursions.
The REGEN process requires zero water treatment chemicals, eliminating chemical procurement, handling, and disposal costs from the operational budget.
Operators can reliably forecast and reduce costs associated with cEOR production — no unexpected chemical uplifts or media changeouts driven by polymer breakthrough.
Efficiently removes free and emulsified oil droplets along with suspended solids, protecting injection well injectivity and downstream equipment from damage.
Unlike walnut shell and traditional media, REGEN media does not remove production polymer from the back-produced water which results in cost savings for the producer.
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