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Water
Segment
Utilities
Main-Family
Water & Sewer
Sub-Family
Water
Physical State

Liquid

Product
Produced Water
Abbreviation
H2O
Production
Production Production  

Description

Produced water is a term used in the oil industry or geothermal industry to describe water that is produced as a byproduct during the extraction of crude oil and natural gas, or used as a medium for heat extraction. Produced water are the kind of brackish and saline waters from underground formation that are brought to the surface. Oil and gas reservoirs often have water as well as hydrocarbons, sometimes in a zone that lies under the ydrocarbons, and sometimes in the same zone with the oil and gas.

Oil wells sometimes produce large volumes of water with the oil, while gas wells tend to produce water in smaller proportion.

To achieve maximum oil recovery, waterflooding is often implemented, in which water is injected into the reservoirs to help force the oil to the production wells. The injected water eventually reaches the production wells, and so in the later stages of waterflooding, the produced water proportion ("cut") of the total production increases.

 

Source: Wikipedia, Produced water.

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Chemical Data
Chemical Formula

H2O

Molecular Weight (g/mol)
18.015
Specific Gravity
1.00
Crude Data
API Gravity
10
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Modified by UserPic   Kokel, Nicolas 4/13/2025 11:12 AM
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