Lloydminster Thermal Pigging Water Treatment
Zero Lost Production and ESG Win
Claytek has been working alongside the water intake group from a large producers thermal plants in western Canada
Location: Lloydminster
The Lloydminster Thermal Assets are fed water from the North Saskatchewan river via the raw water intake system.
Raw Water system Pipeline Pigging is completed annually to maintain pipeline integrity and remove debris.
Claytek has been onsite yearly since 2021 to provide robust water treatment for extremely high turbidity and iron laden water.
The challenges are to maintain iron levels to less than 1 ppm iron and less than 8 NTU all while providing the thermal boiler a supply of this water at 3.5 m3 a minute.
Claytek developed a high shear process for our CETCO RM10 flocculants to treat and separate the iron and solids from the water at a high flow with minimal equipment and filtration. The CETCO RM10 drops out the iron and solids quickly and effectively so that we can manage a consistently clean water stream to the plants as required.
Our ability to clean the pigging water as it happens and processing the water stream to the plant allows the facilities to stay online whereas they used to shut down during these pigging events.
The Claytek solution allowed the producer to keep production at some facilities at 5,000 bbls per day because Claytek’s ability to manage this water .
