KOSUN VC-1000 Cuttings Dryer System can Improves Overall Cost-efficiency

Nowadays, international community is paying more and more attention to environmental protection and customers have seen practical economic benefits brought by drilling waste management equipment. Drilling fluid recycled each day can save tens of thousands of US dollars for customers. More and more new and regular customers write to KOSUN to ask about our technologies and equipment related to drilling waste management.

The national oil company in Algeria, Sonatrach, and the international operators working in the area were concerned about the environmental impact of their drilling operations and were looking for the best environmental practices to apply to their projects. They were on the look‐out for advanced technologies that would assist them in achieving their environmental goals.

In view of this kind of situation,KOSUN recommended the operator employ a specially engineered VC-1000 cuttings dryer system designed to recover and return a large percentage of invert emulsion mud to the active drilling fluid system that otherwise would be lost as a waste product. The vertical cuttings dryer features a state-of-the-art design that can process varying amounts of cuttings and fluids, typically up to 60 tons per hour. Dry solids discharged from the dryer are typically ≤5% oil content by wet weight. Economics the vertical cuttings dryer improves overall cost-efficiency, producing reduced amounts of extremely dry cuttings for disposal and recovering valuable fluid for reuse. It is effective with water-, oil- and synthetic-base drilling fluids.

KOSUN is the leader in China’s solids control industry and expert in drilling waste management. KOSUN is capable of providing customers with such four series as oil & gas drilling solids control equipment, centrifuges, drilling waste treatment equipment and drilling security equipment, including 25 categories of products, and can also customize packaged design and matching products of oil & gas drilling rigs for drilling contractors. The products provided by KOSUN are extensively used in oil & gas drilling and work over, coalbed methane drilling, shale gas drilling, water well, geothermal well drilling, trenchless horizontal directional crossing projects, mine gravel staged treatment, tailings treatment, rive dredging works, municipal environment-friendly sewage treatment, industrial wastewater, Treatment, fruit juice purification, waste oil recovery and purification treatment, etc.