Produced Water: Environmental Risks and Advances in Mitigation Technologies

by Kenneth Lee

Book Overview

A state-of-the-art review of scientific knowledge on the environmental risk of ocean discharge of produced water and advances in mitigation technologies.

In offshore oil and gas operations, produced water (the water produced with oil or gas from a well) accounts for the largest waste stream (in terms of volume discharged). Its discharge is continuous during oil and gas production and typically increases in volume over the lifetime of an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489997296
• ISBN13: 9781489997296
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"