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The drilling waste management systems developed by KOSUN are very popular among domestic and foreign customers.

By integrating both domestic and foreign advanced solutions and experience in well drilling and completion waste management, KOSUN has laid down an integrated solution for drilling waste treatment after repeated researches and experiments, which goes through four steps as reducing waste discharge at source, recycling wastewater, recovering drilling mud, reprocessing waste by means of four-stage solids control system before realizing zero discharge of waste, offering high-quality drilling waste treatment services for projects. Reducing waste discharge at source: It means beginning with the moment when drilling fluids starts circulating. The Company has already begun its integrated solution for drilling waste management. KOSUN Solids Control System will connect directly to the overflow, and

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Zanganeh said that Iran will fully develop the South Pars gas field in 2020

Zanganeh, Oil Minister of Iran, said on Tuesday that the 27-phase offshore portion of the South Pars oilfield will be fully developed in the first half of 2020. He said that the Phase 11 development plan of the South Pars will be launched before the end of the Iranian calendar year (until March 20, 2020), and the 14th phase of the gas field will be put into operation in 2021. He said that they have made great progress in the South Pars gas field. They originally planned to cooperate with Total to build the supercharged platform technology during the 11th phase of the project, but unfortunately, Total and PetroChina withdrew from the project due to U.S. sanctions. He added that they terminated the contract in a friendly manner and Iran has no disputes with them in this regard. The sanctions

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New Environmental Protection Law Triggers Implementation of “Drilling Waste Zero-Discharge Treatment Equipment and Process Technology While Drilling”

Implementation of the new Environmental Protection Law has been increasingly pressuring on domestic oil companies. For better waste treatment while drilling and effective protection of ecological environment at well site, CNPC has introduced private capital to jointly develop drilling waste zero-discharge treatment equipment and process technology while drilling, and has purchased services in some oilfields to allow private enterprises for centralized treatment of drilling waste. Zero drilling waste discharge technology process while drilling includes three units, including waste collection unit, gel breaking and destabilization unit and solid-liquid separation unit . In waste collection unit, mud generated during drilling process is collected and passes through HGD high frequency shale sh

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Current status and prospects of drilling waste management industry in China

With Chinese oil industry development and drilling fluid technology update in rent years, more and more oilfields are using oil-based drilling fluid, which brings great benefits to drilling engineering, but poses a series of problems at the same time, that is, how to manage the used drilling waste? China had put forward very strict requirements on oilfield environmental protection for while-drilling waste treatment, which is rarely seen from the national legislative level. This means that Chinese drilling waste service market has been opened now. Nowadays, there has been a great demand for drilling waste management in every oilfield. KOSUN has received related consultations from many oilfield customers. We also sent persons to visit these customers to know their current conditions and dema

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Development and application of new drilling fluid system

Development of drilling fluid system and additives is facing new breakthroughs to adapt to requirements of deep well, ultra deep well and complex formation drilling and increasingly valued environmental requirements, as well as further reduce drilling cost. New treatment agents have to adapt to ultra deep well requirements with stable temperature resistant performance and environmentally friendly, preventing formation damage and later environmental problems. New synthetic base drilling fluid will have further development. With deepening of environmental protection philosophy, environmentally friendly drilling fluid is leads the development trend. Low toxicity and non-toxic oil-based drilling fluid is given more attention. Due to rapid development of synthetic base drilling fluid, it has be

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Future Development Direction for New Technologies of Drilling Fluids

The importance attached to unconventional oil and gas resources, especially shale oil and gas development through horizontal well, shows unique advantage of oil-based drilling fluid on shale formation. It is proved that oil-based drilling fluid is the prime choice for shale gas horizontal well construction. It is clear that oil-based drilling fluid ushers in a new development opportunity. Although oil-based drilling fluid has been developing rapidly for the past two years, it is still less competitive compared with the foreign one and there is much room for improvement. Next emphasis is how to strengthen additives and theoretical research by virtue of successful foreign experience and preliminary domestic experience, focusing on demand for oil-based drilling fluid. Perfect supporting oil-b

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A gas field over a hundred billion cubic meters discovered in Tarim Oilfield

Recently, the Bozi No. 9 Well of PetroChina Tarim Oilfield Company was successfully tested, and it has obtained high-yield industrial oil and gas flow with a daily natural gas of 418,200 cubic meters and the condensate oil of 115.15 cubic meters. It is another 100-billion cubic meters gas field discovered in the southern part of Mount Tianshan in the Tarim Oilfield within one year, which marks the birth of the second trillion-cubic meters gas area in the Tarim Basin. The Bozi No. 9 Well is a pre-exploration well in the Kelasu tectonic zone of the Kuqa Depression in the Tarim Basin. Its spud-in was in October 2017 and the drilling was finished in March 2019. It is an ultra-deep well with a depth of 7880 meters. Tian Jun, deputy general manager of Tarim Oilfield Company, said that the succes

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