As oil prices have increased, interest in downhole oil-water separators (DOWS) has returned after a 2-year lull caused by a low oil price and the nervousness of operators to install relatively ...

Saudi Aramco confirmed that inlet distributor design on an existing low-pressure degassing tank (LPDT) was the root cause of poor water separation at its gas-oil separation plant (GOSP). Despite the ...

Named after the two-faced Roman god Janus to reflect its dual-purpose design, researchers present a novel membrane system – a Janus channel of membranes (JCM) – capable of simultaneously separating ...

Oil spills and oily industrial wastewater are a nightmare for factories, the environment, and public health. Separating oil from water might sound simple, but in reality it's one of the toughest jobs ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Aerogels, sometimes called frozen smoke, are nanoscale foams: solid materials whose sponge-like structure is riddled by pores as small as nanometers across. They can be made from ...

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Objective: Convert the incoming multiphase wellstream into saleable crude oil meeting export specs while routing gas, produced water, and solids to their respective handling systems—safely, ...

In industrial oils, contamination of water can create major problems with regard to machinery parts. This is because water will not only change a lubricant’s viscosity, but would also lead to chemical ...

Researchers reported the findings of an experiment in which they used a material produced by the bacteria Gluconacetobacter hansenii as a filter to separate water from an oil mixture. Researchers have ...