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InPro Services

Turnkey and innovative environmental solutions

Inpro Systems was established in 2012, providing water and solids clean up solutions for

the energy sector by optimising proven technologies to create an integrated delivery

solution.

The global market is changing significantly in water and solids clean-up, where many

regions are tightening their environmental specifications in the Oil and Gas market. Under

OSPAR the requirements will be reduced to 15ppm in 2017.

The intended clean-up will be focused on water over-boarding, drilling cuttings and well

services (workovers).

Utilising Aiken Groups specialist knowledge of project management in the construction of

containerised modules, for both onshore and offshore applications, and their expertise in

the global market, InPro Systems can deliver bespoke, fit-for-purpose, turnkey systems.

Introduction

Your Environmental Solutions Partner

InPro Systems are a bespoke solution provider.

Our focus is on slops & oily water, mud slops, frac flow-back waters and waste drilling

fluid treatment systems for the Oil and Gas upstream sector, we also offer oily water,

wastewater, process & cooling water and effluent treatment to various markets and

industry sectors.

We currently cover the following main markets:

• Oil and Gas

• Process/Manufacturing

• Decommissioning

InPro Systems


Oil & Gas

Clean-up and

hydrocarbon recovery

from waste streams.

Modular/scalable systems

to treat upstream and

downstream wastes and

recover hydrocarbons.

Our Business


Our Business

Oil & Gas

Clean-up and

hydrocarbon recovery

from waste streams.

• Groundwater, closed

drain interceptors

• Oily water, slop water,

mud slops

• Produced water


Oil and Gas Industry Market Drivers

Regulatory

• Changes to legislation & legal

framework

• International treaties,

discharge/disposal limitations

• Environmental discharge

consent limitations

• Enforcement

Industry challenges

• Maturity, effects of mature production &

enhanced recovery techniques -

(increase use of chemicals /water,

production water and workovers)

• Changing requirements relative to current

end-of-life treatment plant

• Costs for local containment, transportation

and disposal (skip and ship)


Market opportunities – ‘3Rs’ Oil & Gas

• Regulations are becoming tougher – are the agreed discharge rates being met?

• Reservoirs and subsea are increasing in complexity, requiring more water and

chemicals

• Remediation of fluid and solid cleanliness impacting both onshore and offshore

Challenges – Oil & Gas Globally

Reservoir:

• Drilling activities

• Chemical injection for well management is

increasing

• Water injection is increasing:

− Extended reach drilling

− Water flooding

− Fracking water pressurisation



Upstream

• Process water from aqueous

cleaning/washing of drill

cuttings using hydrodynamic

cavitation

• Hydraulic fracturing flowback

water

• Drilling slops

• Enhanced recovery –

treatment of water for injection

• Produced water

Transportation

• Oil tanker ballast and tank clean down

waste water

• Tank farm contaminated surface water,

tank bottom sludges

Midstream

• Refinery and petrochemical plant effluent,

tank bottom sludges, contaminated surface

water

Challenges – Oil & Gas Globally


Turnkey Solutions

Physical

Electro-chemistry

Biological (not

offshore)Chemistry

Mechanical

• No single technology fits all

• Integrated systems approach is required

• Solutions can be permanent or mobile


Typical Solutions

• Electrocoagulation and Advanced Electrochemical Oxidation, electrochemical

processes for treating diverse wastewater streams

• Cavitation Scrubbing of Solids, stripping gases from liquids and other applications

• Natural Biostimulants and their application to bioremediation and wastewater

treatment

• AquaPurge; an Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) using ozone and UV to treat

produced water and other wastewater streams


The Process – Using Proven technologies

• Crushing to break up/grade contaminated solids below a maximum size for optimum

processing

• Cavitation scrubbing to hydrodynamically generate cavitation vapour bubbles and

harness the energies released when these bubbles collapse to separate oils and

hydrocarbons from solid particulates

• Oil separation to recover the majority of the released hydrocarbons

• Electrocoagulation to continuously treat and recycle all process water to remove

dispersed/emulsified hydrocarbons, larger organic molecules and polymers,

suspended particulates, heavy metals, alkaline earths

• Optionally ultrafiltration, high pressure reverse osmosis and vacuum effect evaporation

to remove salts washed from drill cuttings, e.g. to comply with current Canadian

legislation


Technology – Hydrodynamic Cavitation Scrubbing

• This process utilises the energy release and intense pressures produced by

hydrodynamic cavitation bubble collapse to separate the hydrocarbons from the solid

particulates


Solid Decontamination System - Process

Tilted plate separator

Buffer tank

High pressure

pump

Contaminated solids

Two-stage cavitation scrubbing

unit

Enclosed screw conveyor

Chemical addition

Cleaned solids

Pump

Polymer

Dissolved air

flotation tank

Screw blender

Buffer tank

Pump

Pump

System make-up water

Low pressure

sprayUpward current

separator

Recovered hydrocarbons

Water overflow with fine particulates + remaining oils

Wash water from cleaned solids

with fine particulates + hydrocarbons

Recovered

hydrocarbons

Pump

Discharge of dewatered flocs and sediments

Sludge

pump

Filter or rotary press

Flocs and sediments

Dewatering screen

Low pressure

spray

Global Advantech Resources’ Packaged Water Treatment System modules installed depend upon local consents for discharge to the environment

Pump

Discharge of treated water

Contaminated solids are prepared and broken down to

a maximum size, e.g. 10mm using a cone crusher.

Next the solids are loaded into the scrubbing unit, which

uses hydrodynamically generated cavitation to separate

adhering oils/hydrocarbons from solid particulates

Separated materials and process water are ejected into

the separator cyclone, which in turn overflows into the

oil/fines separator units, where the oil/hydrocarbons are

collected

The separated solids are discharged from the underflow

of the separator to a screw elevator/ dryer for discharge

into skips

Prior to recirculation or discharge the process water is

treated to remove suspended ultra-fines, dissolved/

emulsified oils and heavy metals using

electrocoagulation systems


Previous HCS Projects

Location Client Details

Alberta, Canada Syncrude Design and supply of hot water hydrodynamic cavitation scrubbing system for the recovery of heavy crude oil from tar sands

Angola Drill cuttings cleaning, oil contaminated sand

Russia - Siberia Yukos Two systems – drill cuttings cleaning and oil contaminated sand

Isle of Grain – UK NATO Oil contaminated sand/soil

Winkleworth Coking Works - UK Environment Agency Coal dust and coal contaminated sand/soil

Glasgow Coal dust and coal contaminated sand/soil

Venezuela BP Drill cuttings cleaning, oil contaminated sand

UK HM Coastguard Marine Pollution Control Unit

Two systems (70 tonnes per hour and 25 tonnes per hour) mobile systems for cleaning crude oil from beaches – One system featured on UK television programme “Tomorrows World” successfully cleaning oily sand on beach at Caister in Norfolk

Australia Oil contaminated sand

Mexico Pemex Oil contaminated sand

Brazil Petrobras Oil contaminated sand

UK-USA Mobile drilling waste processing system


Cavitation Scrubbing in Soil Remediation

• Mobile and static plant use cavitation scrubbing to separate and recover hydrocarbons

from sand, soils and sludges

• Environmentally effective, reduces residual hydrocarbon contamination of solids to 1.0-

0.05% depending porosity of the substrate and the contaminants

• Process solution is treated and recycled to remove emulsified oils, hydrocarbons,

BOD, COD, suspended solids and heavy metals

• Cavitation systems proven in the clean-up of old industrial sites, e.g. Isle of Grain oil

refinery (UK) – two previous generation systems supplied to UK Maritime and

Coastguard for emergency response use


Water Flow

Electrochlorinator

1st

electrocoagulation

stage

2nd

electrocoagulation

stage

Ultrafiltration

stage

Typical analysis:>>3000mg/L hydrocarbons

Typical analysis:5-10mg/L hydrocarbons( fully compliant with current and future maximum permitted discharges)

Water flow through the treatment process with influent and discharge/re-use results


Water Treatment System – Process Flow

4. Ultrafiltration to remove remaining

hydrocarbons, organics, suspended

solids prior to discharge to sea

5. Flocs and sediments removed

dewatered using filter press

6. Inline automatic analyser for influent

produced water and multiple

automatic analysers to check that

treated water from discharge to sea

meets permitted criteria

1. Electrochlorination – generate

sodium hypochlorite to oxidise

and remove sulphides,

especially hydrogen sulphide

2. 1st stage of electrocoagulation

(iron electrodes) to remove the

majority of hydrocarbons,

organics, suspended solids,

heavy metals, etc.

3. Optional 2nd stage of

electrocoagulation (aluminium

electrodes) to reduce remaining

hydrocarbons, organics,

suspended solids, heavy metals,

etc.

pH check

Polymer pH

adjustment

Electrocoagulation cell Media

filter

Tilted-plate dissolved gas

flotation/sedimentation tank

Post-hydrocyclone

produced water for treatment

Discharge of flocs

and sediments

Filter press

UltrafilterTreated

water for discharge

to sea

Residual

crude oil hydrocarbons

Inline water

analyser

Coil

filter

Sodium hypo-

chlorite dosing

Inline water analyser

pH check

Polymer pH

adjustment

Electrocoagulation cell

Tilted-plate dissolved gas flotation/sedimentation tank

Inline mixer

Filteredseawater

NaOCltank 2

NaOCltank 1

Heat

exchanger + chiller

Electro-chlorination

cell

Electrochlorinator

Second electrocoagulation stage where required

Primary electrocoagulation stage

Ultrafiltration

stage


Multi-stage Water Treatment

1. Electrochlorination – generate sodium hypochlorite to oxidise and remove sulphides,

especially hydrogen sulphide

2. 1st stage of electrocoagulation (iron electrodes) to remove the majority of

hydrocarbons, organics, suspended solids, heavy metals, etc.

3. Optional 2nd stage of electrocoagulation (aluminium electrodes) to reduce remaining

hydrocarbons, organics, suspended solids, heavy metals, etc.

4. Ultrafiltration to remove remaining hydrocarbons, organics, suspended solids prior to

discharge to sea

5. For produced water: inline automatic analyser for influent water and multiple automatic

analysers to check that treated water for discharge to sea/local environment meets

permitted criteria


Haliburton Reference


Previous Project – Wastewater and Slops

Onshore Rainforest Drilling Wastewater and Slops Treatment System in Papua New

Guinea


Track Record – Other Projects

• System to treat used oil emulsion cutting fluids and process wash effluent prior to

discharge at a major car manufacturer – Italy

• System to treat drilling slops – UK

• System to treat contaminated groundwater and effluent at a major tank farm prior to

discharge – Europe

• System to treat effluent a major refined products distribution depot – Italy

• System to clean crude oil storage tanks at production site – Europe


InPro Systems Vision

To be your environmental partner, providing ‘fit for

purpose’ integrated turnkey solutions’; using proven

technologies.

Way forward

• Share with us your challenges

• Engage with us to screen the potential solution

− enable us to demonstrate how we can add

value by working together


Contact Details

Contact Details:

Sales Enquiries – [email protected]

Technical Enquiries – [email protected]

Tel: +44 (0)1224 244 300

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