The Water Treatment Plant facility cleans up produced waste water (a by product from the oil production) allowing it to be reused for water flooding and steam flooding which in turn will increase oil production. The plant uses a three-phase gravity separator, induced gas flotation, and nutshell filtration to separate water from oil and to reduce entrained solids.
The recovered oil is returned to the shipping tanks and the water can then be reused for other oilfield processes. The water treatment process provides environmental protection and allows Tatweer to meet the high standards for the Kingdom of Bahrain.
The project was completed in approximately 18 months and cost $16million capital investment, and is the first of six plants currently being installed at all existing tank batteries before the end of 2012 with a further two plants being installed at the new tank batteries in 2013.
“This is one of many major projects Tatweer Petroleum is undertaking in its Major Development Plan for the development of Bahrain Field which will pave the way for increasing future oil production from Bahrain field and bring prosperity to the Kingdom in line with the Bahrain’s vision 2030 long-term economic and developmental plans,” Minister of Energy Dr Abdul-Hussain Bin Ali Mirza, in a statement said.