Slop Water
Slop Water is the water collected from the various drains onboard a rig. This is a mixture of rain water, water containing oil or water-based drilling mud from the drains at the drill floor, soap and dope from cleaning of pipe threads at deck, mud and chemical residuals from the mud pump room and mud mix room, or even water mixed with hydraulic oil from any leakage. In all cases the Slop Water is collected at a tank – or several tanks, and shipped onshore at a very high expense for the oil company. For decades there have been attempts to treat this water offshore at site, but as the chemical composition of the water changes from hour to hour no such applicable, successful method has yet been developed. All slop water - in Norway alone several hundred thousand m3, with the exception of the rigs that inject such water to dedicated wells - is being sent onshore for final treatment. It is accounted for as special waste in environmental reports. For operators, large volumes of slop water result in several hundred million NOK annually in disposal costs which can be avoided if treated at site offshore with proper technology. Prior to Sorbwater’s innovative, environmentally friendly solution to the problem, such technology has not been available. Sorbwater Technology AS has developed proprietary state of the art robust solutions meeting real Zero Discharge limits. Our systems can be implemented as module based or containerized packages.
Sorbwater delivers complete process systems of the above Product portfolio in order to meet the client’s most stringent cleaning levels from 5000ppm OiW down to less than 1ppm OiW, and doing so we have a unique process opening up a huge market for water reuse technology, and the combination of chemicals and innovative hardware is needed to achieve the required level of treatment.
Sorbwater delivers complete process systems of the above Product portfolio in order to meet the client’s most stringent cleaning levels from 5000ppm OiW down to less than 1ppm OiW, and doing so we have a unique process opening up a huge market for water reuse technology, and the combination of chemicals and innovative hardware is needed to achieve the required level of treatment.