Ultrasonics Tackles Cuttings Re-injection

Article. Disposal of drill cuttings is becoming an increasing topical issue as a growing number of global and national guidelines are being implemented by governments to achieve zero discharge of oil based cuttings by the end of the year 2000. Thus, cuttings re-injection becomes a favoured environmental technique for the disposal of oil based contaminated cuttings. This article describes how ultrasonics is used to destroy the cuttings before they are re-injected as fine material into the wellbore