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New Technology for Sustainable Petroleum Industry Waste Disposal

During exploration, drilling and hydrocarbon production a certain amount of waste is generated. In the last few decades high environmental standards and criteria have been set in general, but especially for petroleum industry. Due to those standards, safe disposal of waste, along with the limitation of world oil and gas resources, its disproportional global distribution and costs of production, has become one of the limiting factors and its impact on the future development of petroleum industry is predicted to be even greater. By injecting that waste into suitable underground geological formations, where it primary came from, petroleum industry waste is safely removed from human biosphere. For even more than half of the century implementation of this kind of technology of waste disposal has been known and used in the developed countries of the world. Due to negative publicity regarding environmental impact, gained during the past, and considering new set of environmental laws and standards, the waste injection technology could be the solution for petroleum industry to achieve sustainable waste management and to diminish its impact on the environmental balances. Furthermore by implementing this, already proven, technology the present but also the future problems of global energetic, like problem of greenhouse gasses, could also find its solutions.

waste disposal; injection technology; isolated geological structures

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