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Disposal of drilling waste in salt mines in China
Tianfu Xue1, Chunhe Yang2, Yinping Li3
1State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, Hubei, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Abstract:
A lot of drilling wastes are produced during oil/gas exploration and exploitation in China. Many countries have built and successfully run projects to dispose of wastes in salt mines, which fully demonstrates the feasibility and superiority of this technology. The application prospects of using salt mines to dispose of drilling wastes is comprehensively evaluated from many aspects. It is concluded that this technology has broad application prospects in China. The scientific and technical problems that need to be solved in order to successfully use this technology are systematically summarized, and some practical suggestions are put forward to improve relevant laws and policies. Considering the geological conditions of salt mines and the requirements of laws and regulations in China, a set of perfect and more advanced Chinese schemes has been proposed.
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