Application 01
SAGD produced water recovery
Vacuum membrane distillation handles the high silica, high TDS, and dissolved hydrocarbons that crash RO trains.
Industry · Oil & Gas
Oil & Gas
separation, end to end.
From SAGD operations in Alberta to offshore platforms in the Gulf, Petro Sep treats the brines, hydrocarbons, and complex mixtures that defeat conventional separation. We recover boiler-quality water from feeds that disqualify reverse osmosis, capture solvents that would otherwise burn off, and cut disposal costs by an order of magnitude.
What you get
Outcomes our customers see.
Specific to oil & gas. Verified on real feeds. The numbers below come from commissioned projects, not data sheets.
- Recovery on tested SAGD produced water
- 96%
- From a 15% TDS feed that pinned evaporators on energy cost.
- Solvent recovery from natural gas processing
- 99.5%
- Pervaporation systems that pay back in 18 to 24 months on solvent savings alone.
- Footprint vs evaporator-based recovery
- 1/3
- Skid-mounted units that fit existing facility envelopes without civil works.
- Disposal cost reduction
- 70 to 90%
- Closing the loop on produced water turns a per-barrel disposal cost into a recovered-water credit.
Featured case study
One project, in detail.
How the work shows up on a oil & gas site.
Applications
Where we deploy.
What we deliver.
The specific separation problems we solve for oil & gas operators.
Application 02
Frac flowback treatment
On-site treatment of mixed brines and hydrocarbons for reuse in the next stage or compliant discharge.
Application 03
Natural gas glycol regeneration
Pervaporation removes water from glycol streams without the energy cost of conventional reboilers.
Application 04
Sour water and amine reclamation
Membrane-based separation of degradation products and heat-stable salts that conventional distillation cannot remove.
Application 05
BTEX and VOC capture
Recovery of valuable volatile organics from aqueous streams, in compliance with state and provincial limits.
Technologies deployed
The right process for the fluid.
Oil and gas streams almost never look like a single problem. We pair technologies, often combining VMD on the water side with pervaporation on the hydrocarbon side, to deliver a turnkey system rather than a single unit.
VMD
Vacuum Membrane Distillation
High-recovery treatment for high-salinity and complex feeds where reverse osmosis cannot go.
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PV
Pervaporation
Selective separation of liquid mixtures, including the azeotropes that distillation cannot break.
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VP
Vapor Permeation
Vapor-phase separation for solvent dehydration and VOC recovery in chemical and pharmaceutical operations.
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ZLD
Zero Liquid Discharge
Closed-loop systems that recover water and isolate solids for industrial wastewater.
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We sign NDAs before discussing your process. We respond within one business day. If membrane separation is wrong for your problem, we will tell you.