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Drilling Waste Disposal-Burial in Oil & Gas Industry

Burial is the most common onshore disposal technique used for disposing of drilling wastes (mud and cuttings). Generally, the solids are buried in the same pit (the reserve pit) used for collection and temporary storage of the drilling wastes mud and cuttings after the liquid is allowed to evaporate. Pit burial is a low-cost, low-tech method that does not require drilling wastes to be transported away from the well site, and, therefore, is very attractive to many operators.

Burial is the placement of waste in man-made or natural excavations, such as pits or landfills.

Burial may be the most misunderstood or misapplied disposal technique. Simply pushing the walls of the reserve pit over the drilling cuttings is generally not acceptable. The depth or placement of the burial cell is important. A moisture content limit should be established on the buried drilling cuttings, and the chemical composition should be determined. Onsite pit burial may not be a good choice for drilling wastes that contain high concentrations of oil, salt, biologically available metals, industrial chemicals, and other materials with harmful components that could migrate from the pit and contaminate usable water resources.

In some oil field areas, large landfills are operated to dispose of oil field drilling wastes from multiple wells. Burial usually results in anaerobic conditions, which limits any further degradation when compared with drilling wastes that are land-farmed or land-spread, where aerobic conditions predominate.
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