SPE Distinguished Lecture:
Produced Water Management Options — One Size Does Not Fit All
This lecture describes many produced water management options using the concept of a 3-tiered water management/pollution prevention hierarchy: minimize water production, recycle or reuse, and treat and dispose. This lecture offers guidance on the factors that should be considered by company managers to select the management options that are most appropriate for a particular site.
John
Veil is Manager of the Water Policy Program for Argonne National
Laboratory. He earned a BA degree in earth and planetary science from Johns
Hopkins University, an MS degree in zoology from the University of Maryland,
and an MS degree in civil engineering from the University of Maryland. Veil
served as a faculty member of the Department of Zoology at the University of
Maryland. He is the lead author of the 2004 “White Paper Describing Produced
Water from Production of Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Coal Bed Methane.”
