Conocophillips Company

Travis Dinsdale

Jay Edward Locklear

Ramesh Sharma

Babajide Kolade

Amber J Taylor

Dale Lee Embry

Jonathan J Kiesewetter

James Kadar

Production equipment and methods which reduce 'gray' or off-specification production and improve central processing facility (CPF) efficiency. The process is a combination of unit operations (heat exchange, pumping, and separation) to produce an on-spec gas product, an on-spec condensate product, and/or on-spec oil product. It does so by placing the feed under pressure and heating it to the point that it can be vaporized and separated. The blended components are modulated dependent upon the composition of the produced fluids, produced gas, and off-specification fluid to efficiently produce on-specification products.

Condensate recovery unit

A method and system generate steam for SAGD operation wherein steam generator blowdown water is acidified, cooled and clarified before reuse. Acid Clarification Treatment, or 'ACT', mitigates organic fouling in Once-Through Stream Generators. Lab tests quantitatively and qualitatively show that ACT reduces Total organic carbon (TOC) and 'bad actors' TOC, respectively, in blowdown streams.

Treatment of OTSG blowdown

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Calgary, Canada

Travis Dinsdale