Southern Pacific will employ in-situ recovery methods for the thermal project.
The initial deoiling step includes treatment of produced water from oilfield operations with Veolia’s AutoFlot induced gas flotation technology.
Following initial treatment, an HPD evaporation system will treat the de-oiled produced water from the 12,000bbl/d operation, and the treated water will serve as feed for the drum-type boilers to generate steam for the the steam assisted gravity drainage process.
The evaporator system will employ the proprietary Silica Sorption process that operates at a lower pH, and an additional crystallizer will be used to further reduce waste volumes, achieve higher water recovery, and approach zero liquid discharge.
Veolia’s technical subsidiaries, Whittier Filtration, HPD, and Crown solutions will provide the deoiling technology, evaporation system, and the source water treatment plant respectively.
Veolia will also supply a source water treatment facility that will treat raw water for additional use in the plant.
The resulting waste stream will be fed into the produced water treatment system, thereby minimizing waste from the process.
