Assessment of contaminants in sand production from petroleum wells offshore Sabah
Sand production remains a huge obstacle in many oil and gas fields around the world, but the hazards of contaminants riding on the produced sand are often not emphasised. Improper disposal of the sand could see the toxic leaching into the environment including the food chain, endangering all living...
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oai:scholars.utp.edu.my:339202022-12-20T03:50:27Z http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/33920/ Assessment of contaminants in sand production from petroleum wells offshore Sabah Shayuti, M.S.M. Zainal, S. Ya, T.M.Y.S.T. Abdullah, M.Z. Shahruddin, M.Z. Othman, N.H. Alias, N.H. Mohd, T.A.T. Sharudin, R.W. Sand production remains a huge obstacle in many oil and gas fields around the world, but the hazards of contaminants riding on the produced sand are often not emphasised. Improper disposal of the sand could see the toxic leaching into the environment including the food chain, endangering all living organisms. The impending sand production from an oilfield offshore Sabah also suffers from the lack of hazards identification; hence, this study was conducted to assess the contaminant on the produced sand. Sand samples were collected from multiple wells in the area, with the contaminants extracted using n-hexane and subjected to chemical and thermal analyses. FTIR and GC�MS detected traces of harmful pollutants like naphthalene, amine substances, cyclohexanol, and short-chain alkanes. It was discovered that the volatile fraction of the contaminants was able to evaporate at 33 °C, while high energy was needed to remove 100 of the contaminants from the sand. Overall, the produced sand from the oilfield was unsafe and required treatment before it could be dumped or used. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. 2022 Article NonPeerReviewed Shayuti, M.S.M. and Zainal, S. and Ya, T.M.Y.S.T. and Abdullah, M.Z. and Shahruddin, M.Z. and Othman, N.H. and Alias, N.H. and Mohd, T.A.T. and Sharudin, R.W. (2022) Assessment of contaminants in sand production from petroleum wells offshore Sabah. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85129512422&doi=10.1007%2fs11356-022-20389-6&partnerID=40&md5=816208b1828c97a7a5b9df8f7e78ee65 10.1007/s11356-022-20389-6 10.1007/s11356-022-20389-6 10.1007/s11356-022-20389-6 |
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Sand production remains a huge obstacle in many oil and gas fields around the world, but the hazards of contaminants riding on the produced sand are often not emphasised. Improper disposal of the sand could see the toxic leaching into the environment including the food chain, endangering all living organisms. The impending sand production from an oilfield offshore Sabah also suffers from the lack of hazards identification; hence, this study was conducted to assess the contaminant on the produced sand. Sand samples were collected from multiple wells in the area, with the contaminants extracted using n-hexane and subjected to chemical and thermal analyses. FTIR and GC�MS detected traces of harmful pollutants like naphthalene, amine substances, cyclohexanol, and short-chain alkanes. It was discovered that the volatile fraction of the contaminants was able to evaporate at 33 °C, while high energy was needed to remove 100 of the contaminants from the sand. Overall, the produced sand from the oilfield was unsafe and required treatment before it could be dumped or used. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. |
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