Osum Oil Sands is to employ Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies' water-treatment solutions to process produced water at its Taiga project at Cold Lake in Alberta, Canada.
The company will produce bitumen using the in-situ, steam-assisted gravity drainage process (SAGD) from 2013.
Veolia will use the AutoFlot induced gas flotation and Power Clean oil removal filter technologies for the secondary deoiling process.
The deoiled water will be processed by HPD evaporators to provide water to the once-through steam generators and will treat the resulting blowdown.
The evaporator system, which is equipped with the Silica Sorption process, is expected to recover 93% of the water from SAGD operations for re-use in the process.
Osum will use high salinity water in the extraction process and plans to use onsite disposal facilities.
