United vs. salt water disposal.
Get paid for recovered product.
With salt water disposal, valuable crude is sent with the water and solids for disposal.
- Salt water disposal. The producer pays for transport, for liquids disposal and for solids disposal. Simple gravity separation is commonly used, and much of the oil is still sent downhole.
- The material. Higher solid and water crude, bought on a BOL and shipped to United at Baytown.
- United. The producer is paid for the product recovered and sold, with much lower equipment rental costs.
Today
Producer pays, three times.
United
Producer gets paid.
The difference
Get paid for recovered product instead of paying for disposal.
United’s reclamation benefits
- Provides producer pathways to tap into value in product that is recovered and sold.
- All material bought and shipped as an off-spec product on a BOL.
- Asset downtimes are greatly reduced: all material is shipped offsite for processing and separation.
- Low safety risk: all processing is done offsite.
- Solids and liquid residuals disposed of at an E&P disposal facility.
- Much lower equipment rental costs.
The current solution for handling higher solid and water crude oil is less than ideal. Valuable crude is sent with the entrained water and solids to the SWD for disposal.
The producer
- Pays for transportation of material from drilling site to disposal site.
- Pays for disposal of liquids at the salt water disposal well.
- Pays for disposal of solids at the disposal site.
The SWD
- Recovers the valuable crude before disposing of the water.
- Simple gravity separation is commonly used. Much of the oil is still sent downhole.
