Baker Hughes Offers Mobile Drilling Waste Recycling Facility
Baker Hughes’ Eco-Centre CR, a mobile and portable onshore waste facility, offers operators a one-stop solution to processing a wide range of drilling fluids and solids in close proximity to shale formations. This eliminates the need to take waste to separate facilities while reducing environmental impacts and transportation risks.
“Operators are facing water shortages and increased restrictions on raw water use and disposal in many areas of the world. Our portable Eco-Centre CR can be located where operators need it, reducing costs and efficiently recycling drilling waste for future use,” says Scott Schmidt, Baker Hughes’ President of Drilling and Evaluation. “This mobile facility allows operators to process a greater variety of drilling waste streams with a higher throughput, while reducing the impact on the environment. We manage the drilling waste process, from generation at the well-site to ultimate and environmentally compliant disposal.”
This new processing center, which has been used in the Marcellus Shale, is modular in design and uses the best available technology to deliver a 100% reusable, recycled fluid. The system works by destabilizing the fluid, the solids then are brought together and separated out using a centrifuge that allows for maximum return of the solids-free liquid to the fluid system.
“Our Eco-Centre CR offers an overall service that provides the desired effluent quality with a more efficient process,” Schmidt adds. “The equipment and treatment is easy to operate and can be adapted to meet the requirements of each of our customers. While this is one-stop processing, it is a technology that goes beyond one-size fits-all. We can accept and process many types and volumes of waste through our Eco-Centre CR.”
The Eco-Centre CR centralized recycling waste management service offers the best available technology to:
- Reduce the amount of water pulled into the waste stream, avoiding unnecessary trips to stream or well.
- Lower the cost of transporting fluids and drilling waste based on central location.
- Decrease the amount of waste that has to be sent to disposal. All recycled water can be reused in other operations.
