PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: M-I SWACO opens cuttings re-injection training center

M-I Swaco said Dec. 8 that it has opened the industry’s “only all-inclusive Cuttings Re-Injection Training Center in Aberdeen. A similar facility is scheduled to open at the company’s Houston world headquarters in early 2005.

The center is equipped to offer both theoretical and practical hands-on training in all aspects of the CRI process.

The 276-square-meter facility includes training rooms, two CRI training simulators, one CRI full-scale slurrification system, one Cleancut cuttings collection and transport system, a vacuum cuttings collection system and a 518 Centrifuge.

Available to M-I Swaco and customer employees, the training at the center is competency-based and will follow ISO 9001 and ISO 10015 requirements.

“Cuttings re-injection has become a widely popular drilling waste disposal option, especially in areas such as the North Sea, where it has been employed for over a decade. With this process, drilled solids are injected into deep subsurface fractures, allowing operators to move closer to their zero discharge objectives,” said Dr. R.C. Minton, vice president of Drilling Waste Management Business Development for M-I Swaco.

M-I Swaco, based in Houston, is a leading supplier of drilling, reservoir drill-in, completion and production fluids products and systems, solids control and waste management services and equipment to the worldwide petroleum industry.