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<blockquote data-quote="okietool" data-source="post: 2721992" data-attributes="member: 6030">Heat. And that&#039;s why it&#039;s not cost effective. We can&#039;t handle the quantities we need. My company is really kind of small oil. Maybe small medium.The heat we can supply (produced gas), but the scale isn&#039;t there. And we still have to centrifuge and filter it before hand. Pump costs, labor, etc. make it a little costly now. But it has possibilities.The cost difference really is about what I posted.Our goal is to eliminate buying water by using produced water or distilling water.One point of clarification: we are distilling produced water. But if we can make that cost effective, I don&#039;t see any reason we couldn&#039;t distill used frac water. It might actually be cheaper since you start with fresh water vs brine (the produced water here weighs in about 9.5 ppg vs 8.34 for fresh water). The extra 1.16# is salt. Plus we have a delivery piping system in place to the distillery because there&#039;s also a produced water disposal well there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="okietool, post: 2721992, member: 6030"] Heat. And that's why it's not cost effective. We can't handle the quantities we need. My company is really kind of small oil. Maybe small medium. The heat we can supply (produced gas), but the scale isn't there. And we still have to centrifuge and filter it before hand. Pump costs, labor, etc. make it a little costly now. But it has possibilities. The cost difference really is about what I posted. Our goal is to eliminate buying water by using produced water or distilling water. One point of clarification: we are distilling produced water. But if we can make that cost effective, I don't see any reason we couldn't distill used frac water. It might actually be cheaper since you start with fresh water vs brine (the produced water here weighs in about 9.5 ppg vs 8.34 for fresh water). The extra 1.16# is salt. Plus we have a delivery piping system in place to the distillery because there's also a produced water disposal well there. [/QUOTE]

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