Tony Smith, commercial strategy manager, peel gas & oil

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Manchester Ship Canal

Water Abstraction TrialDr Tony Smith

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Agenda

▪ Introduction

▪ Trial objective

▪ Collaboration

▪ Results

▪ Learnings & conclusions

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Manchester Ship Canal

▪ 36 mile waterway linking Manchester to the

Irish Sea

▪ Construction started 1887 at cost of £15m

– estimated to be £1.65 billion in 2011

▪ Opened by HM Queen Victoria in 1894

▪ Immediately became the largest river

navigation canal in the world

▪ Acquired by Peel in 1987

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MSC Water Trial Objective

▪ Safe abstraction, processing, storage and

discharge of water from the Manchester

Ship Canal (MSC) at appropriate quality,

rate and quantity for industrial use –

including hydraulic fracturing

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MSC Water Trial Objective

Collaboration:

▪ Peel: Project sponsor, land, canal & water owner

▪ Alcumus: Safety / risk assessment

▪ Selwood: Pumps, hoses

▪ Rain for Rent: Filtration and Storage

▪ Atg uv: Water UV treatment & bacterial analysis

▪ GroundGas Solutions: Trial operator & scientific

analysis

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Simple Trial Overview

Pump

Temporary on site Water Plant

10 µm5 µm1 µm

3 stage filtration

Flow meter

UV

70 m3storage

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Project Process

▪ Planning and commissioning

▪ Water abstraction

▪ 3 stage Filtration

▪ UV Treatment

▪ Water storage

▪ Analysis

▪ Water discharge

▪ Decommissioning

▪ Reporting

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Continuous Analysis Regime

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Lab Analysis

• Heavy metals

• Hydrocarbons

• BTEX

• PAHs

• TDS

• TSS

• BOD

• COD

• pH

• Chloride

• Salinity

• Total Viable Count (TVC)

• Sulphate Reducing Bacteria (SRB)

• Total Coliforms

Chemistry and MicrobiologyNORM: High resolution

Gamma Ray Spectrometry

10Canal Perspective Water abstraction

11Pipe road crossingSelwood pump

123 stage filtration

13UV unit

14Water storage tank Water return

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Key Results: Chemistry

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Key Results: Lab Analysis

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

▪ Below Limits of detection (LOD)

▪ Pyrene detected at 0.013 µg/l

Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon (PH) and

BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene

and ‘xylenes’)

▪ Below LOD

Chloride

▪ 600~3500 mg/l due to salinity

introduced through canal lock

pH

▪ 7.4 – 7.7

TSS and TDS

▪ No change from process

Aluminium

▪ Av 77% reduction after processing

Iron

▪ Av 64% reduction

Zinc

▪ Av 67% reduction

NORM

▪ All below LOD

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Key Results: Microbiology

▪ Excellent log scale reduction in bacterial

counts from filtration and uv treatment

▪ Particularly for SRBs

▪ Filtration alone reduces bacterial counts but

major effect is in combination with uv

▪ Can consider biocide reduction or removal

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Learnings and Conclusions

Trial positives

▪ Safety and operations

▪ Successful process for industrial water

usage

▪ Effective bacterial reduction

▪ High water quality production

▪ Excellent collaboration

▪ Water can be stored for upto 3 days

without quality deterioration

Further considerations

▪ Reduce filtration?

▪ Longer time period

▪ Longer static water storage

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MSC water trial successfully proved that water

from the canal can be used

for industrial purposes – including providing

water for hydraulic fracturing without the

need for expensive potable water connections or

water trucking and potentially with no

added biocides

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Dr Tony Smith

UK Onshore Oil & Gas: Policy, Planning and Future

Developments: Birmingham March 29th 2017

[email protected]