Challenge: Reduce exposure of personnel to well effluents during manual water sampling for measuring salinity while conducting a long-term flowback test.
Solution: Install the AquaWater Surface water salinity sensor in series with the PhaseTester portable multiphase well testing equipment to continuously measure water conductivity for conversion to salinity as the NaCl equivalent.
Results:
- Increased the accuracy of the flow rate measurement for analyzing the flowback test by incorporating automated, continuous, high-accuracy salinity measurements.
- Decreased operating costs by eliminating manual sampling visits to the remote wellsite for the duration of the 3-month test.