WATER: TREATMENT & MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

Produced Water Treatment, Management Strategies & Practices:
– HDPE Lined Produced Water Evaporation Ponds
– Modeling groundwater vulnerability to contamination from produced water storage in New Mexico
– Get to know your smallest particles: particle imaging analysis 300nm to 30 um
– Planning, Design, and Installation of a Successful Water Management System to Support a Development Drilling and Completion Campaign
– Produced Water Recycling in the New Mexico Delaware Basin
– Bioremediation Coupled with Chemical Oxidation for Treatment of Oil-Based Drill Cuttings
– Designing Saltwater Disposal Systems for Optimal Oil Recovery and Minimal Maintenance
– Influence of temperature and light quality on growth kinetics and nutrient composition of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
– Bioslurry Injection Technology – Future for Wastewater Treatment Process
– CoVAP – Cogeneration for Industrial Waste Water Evaporation
– Water Management in the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry
– Economical and Technical Advantages of Produced and Flowback Water Reuse
– Effective Treatment of Shale Oil and Gas Produced Water by Membrane Distillation Coupled with Precipitative Softening and Walnut Shell Filtration
Beneficial Re-Use of Produced Water and Flowback Water:
– From Bane to Boon: How Alternative PW Reuse Can Supplement Freshwater in the Southwest
– Get Out! What will it take to use produced water outside of the oil and gas industry?
– Research strategies to identify and address risks from alternative management of produced water outside the oilfield

Groundwater Remediation:
– A New Tool for Determining LNAPL Volume and Extent
– Plume Stability Analysis Using SURFER and API’s Interactive LNAPL Guide
– 10 Biggest Mistakes in Groundwater Remediation
– BioTraps and Site Management Strategies for Groundwater Impacted with Chlorinated Hydrocarbons
– BioTraps and Site Management Strategies for Groundwater Impacted with Petroleum Hydrocarbons
– In Situ Bioreactors for In-Well Groundwater Remediation
– Strong Endogenous Decay Contribution During the ERD of TCE DNAPL in Bedrock Groundwater
– Avoiding a cis-DCE Stall During the ERD of TCE DNAPL in Bedrock Groundwater via Biostimulation Alone
– Poplar Tree Bacterial Endophyte Enhanced Phytoremediation of Volatile Organic Compounds- TCE and Oil/Gas-Fuels in Groundwater
– Cost-Effective Destruction of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contaminants with Expedited Residual Mass Solubilization under Anaerobic Conditions via Biostimulation
– In-Place Treatment of Hydrocarbon Releases Signals a Breakthrough in the Conservation of Topsoil & Vegetation
– New Perspectives on Horizontal Wells for Assessment and Remediation

Other:
– Horizontal Directional Drilling for Water Supply Applications

PETROLEUM ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES related to exploration & production; transportation & storage

Legal & Regulatory Issues:
– The Regulation of Oil and Gas Activities Under The Trump Administration
– World Bank/IFC Financing Environmental Issue Update
– Update on Environmental Oil & Gas Permitting and Litigation Issues with a focus on Seismic Claims
– Factors Promoting and Affecting Produced Water Recycling in Permian Basin
– Reviewing and Critiquing Environmental Regulations and Documents Workshop
– Waters of the U.S. Updates and Changes
– Pipeline Planning and Construction: Environmental Considerations
– Environmental Consideration in Various Plays within the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry

Air & Noise Emissions:
– Best Practices to Reduce Venting and Flaring with Economic Benefit
– DSI: An Alternative to Wet Scrubbing For SO2 & SO3 Removal

Waste Management & Pollution Prevention:
– Air Pollution Control Selection for Remediation Applications
– A Comparison of Drilling Wastes to Coal Ash: Potential Environmental Impact, Regulations, and Management Techniques
– Concerns Over the use of Geomembrane Liners as an Engineering Control for the Long-Term Storage of Oil and Gas Wastes
– Heat Recovery Technologies for Combined Heat and Power (CHP) in Oil Field
– Generating Clean Power from Waste Heat at Oil & Gas Sites: Policies, Incentives, Case Studies
– The Three R’s – Refineries, RCRA and Recycling
– Making Silica Dust a Thing of the Past

Risk Assessment & Risk Management: 
– UAS Applications for Environmental Monitoring, Mapping, and Survey Inspection
– ITRC’s TPH Risk Evaluation Guidance

Other:
– Ecosystem Services Gained from Interim Reclamation on Oil and Gas Well Pads in Wyoming
– LNAPL Remediation Combining Mobile Dual Phase Extraction with Concurrent Injection of a Carbon-Based Amendment
– Eliminate Flaring to Generate Green Energy
– Per-and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): An Overview
– Determining Opportunities for Combined Heat and Power (CHP) in the Oil Field
– Small Footprint LRP(R) Sucker Rod Pumping Unit
– Bacteria Behaving Badly: Are Molecular Methods a New Hope for Monitoring?

SOIL: Site Characterization & Remediation

Site Characterization & Forensic Geochemistry:
– Advances in Oil Spill Forensic using Biomarkers and Isotope Ratio Technique
– Update on Current High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) Technology, 3D Data Modeling, and Applying HRSC Data to Remedial Design
– How to Efficiently Quantify Aquifer Properties and Hydrocarbon Saturation using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Geophysical Logging in Existing Monitoring Wells
– Characterization of Groundwater Flow, Systematically Identifying Preferential Flow Zones for Pump and Treat
– Findings From a Machine Learning Approach to Site Characterization
– Are There Holes Below Us? Geophysical Assessment of Prospective Flowback Water Storage Sites for the Presence of Shallow Karst
– Why Flexible Borehole Liners Are Displacing Traditional Hydrologic Assessments
– Drone Magnetometry Applied to Detecting and Mapping Legacy O&G Wells and Pipelines
– A Geochemical Context for Investigations of Stray Gas Migration

Remediation of Hydrocarbon Spills from Exploration & Production:
– Successful On-Site Treatment of Oil Impacted Soil and Oil Sludge using STARx/Hottpad (Ex Situ Smoldering)
– Landfarming of Petroleum Contaminated Soils – What Goes Wrong

Remediation of Hydrocarbon Spills from Transportation & Storage:
– Improved Result for In-Situ Remediation Projects by Utilizing High Resolution Data, Injection, and Hydraulic Placement Treatment Methods – It’s a Contact Sport
– Using Gentle Heating to Accelerate Bioremediation and Vapor Extraction and Close a Site
– Natural Source Zone Depletion for Long Term LNAPL Site Management
– Emergency Response Results in NFA After Tanker Roll-Over

Remediation of Brine Spills:
– Update on Electrokinetic Based Soil Desalinization Field Test
– Remediation of Brine Spills – What Goes Wrong

Other:
– Two-Step Reclamation of a Polluted Site with Surfactant and ISCO Treatment Field Case Study North-West Italy
– Surfactant Enhanced Extraction to Expedite Remediation of a Carbon Tetrachloride Source Zone at an Active Grain Elevator Facility
– Opening the Pathway for Onshore Beneficial Reuse of Drill Cuttings with Bioremediation
– Effective Measurement and Monitoring of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons with Field Equipment
– Techniques and Evaluation for the Creation of Simulated Drill Cuttings for Environmental Studies

SPECIAL SESSION:

“Innovative Tools for NAPL Site Management”
Session Chairs: Mike Hawthorne & Camille Carter, GEI Consultants, Denver, Colorado, USA
– NAPL Mobility in Sediments: Categorizing NAPL Migration Potential Using a Multiple Lines of Evidence Approach
– Case Study: Accelerated Site Closure Via Multimodal LNAPL Transmissivity Testing and Plume Stability Analysis, West Texas
– Case Study for Remediation of NAPL Impacted Sediment
– Quantification of LNAPL Transmissivity in Fractured Porous Media
– Natural Source Zone Depletion Estimation for Confined LNAPL
– Environmental Data Science Innovation in the Age of Big Data