New Project!
Pilot Testing: Pretreatment Options to Allow Re-Use of Frac Flowback and Produced Brine for Gas Shale Resource Development
Texas A&M's Desalinaion team has been awarded a new contract by the DOE  to identify reliable cost-effective pre-treatment methodology for use in processes employed to treat and re-use oil field produced brine and fracture flowback waters. Our specific objectives are (1) to develop a mobile, multifunctional field water treatment specifically for “pretreatment” of oil field waste brine, (2) conduct field demonstrations of specific technology, and (3) createa communication and outreach network to provide reliable information to regulatory agencies and to thepublic on industry efforts to develop unconventional resources. http://www.gpri.org/