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The Facility, Part 11: Produced Water
The online oil-in-water analyser and the laboratory disagree while an injection pump is down. Follow an ageing field’s water through droplet settling, hydrocyclones, flotation and polishing. Sampling methods, discharge monitoring, reinjection, scale, corrosion and bacteria show why the measurement location is an engineering decision. Part 11 of 16 in The Facility. Corran Point, its characters, companies and story figures are fictional and illustrative.
Chapters
00:00:00 Cold open: two numbers that should agree
00:03:15 Why the water keeps coming
00:04:53 What is actually in produced water…
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