A system for using a heated portable vacuum slurry box to efficiently store and transport material including drill cuttings from gas and oil well sites. The slurry box generally includes a vacuum tank, a structure attached to the tank, a vertical tailgate, and a hook for pulling the slurry box onto a vehicle. The features allow for the slurry box to meet space restriction requirements at a well site while functioning within the environmental conditions of winter and summer seasons. The system includes a preferred method to unload the slurry box.

A shaker assembly and method, of which the shaker assembly includes a shaker tank, a mixing tank in fluid communication with the shaker tank and positioned adjacent thereto, an overflow weir positioned between and separating the shaker tank and the mixing tank, a first shaker positioned over the shaker tank, and a second shaker. The first and second shakers are configured to operate in parallel to partially separate a solid from a liquid of a drilling waste fluid. During normal operation, at least some of the liquid flows from the first and second shakers to the shaker tank, and from the shaker tank over the overflow weir and into the mixing tank.

A removable fluid capturing system adapted for installation onto a support structure/frame located under an oil rig catwalk, said fluid capturing system comprising: an elongated trough adapted for insertion under an aperture located on said catwalk; means to secure said trough to structure of the catwalk wherein, upon use, the system is capable of collected fluid seeping from removed pipes through said aperture and directing the fluid to a catchment basin located at a position proximate said second end of the trough. Also disclosed are methods using such system.

Systems and methods are described for detecting and determining information regarding substance transfer stations and for providing the information to users of an online platform in order to permit the users to make informed choices regarding which station to visit for vehicular loading or unloading of a carried substance. The systems and methods may be suitable for detecting and determining information regarding saltwater disposal stations in an oilfield region.

Oilfield water storage systems, methods of managing the same, and film forming compositions are provided herein. In an embodiment, an oilfield water storage system includes a water storage pond, a surface spreading layer on a surface of the water storage pond, and a water outlet pipe disposed in fluid communication with the water storage pond below the surface treatment layer. The surface spreading layer includes a surface spreading agent.

A method and system of providing source water and managing produced/flowback water during a hydraulic fracturing process in an oil and gas operation. The process is an environmentally friendly method of reducing use of fresh water and recycles frac water. The net result is that a volume of frac water is properly managed. Thus, less reliance on transportation vehicles and trucks reduces costs as well as reduction of piping systems. It further reduces a threat of seismic events from disposing of produced water and flowback.

Systems, methods, processes, and/or steps for the long-term disposal of high-level nuclear and radioactive waste, along with other radioactive waste forms, is done within deep salt formation(s) of predetermined characteristics. Waste may be emplaced within a given deep salt formation and after emplacement, creep of that deep salt formation around the deposited waste may entirely entomb that emplaced waste safely for geologic time periods. To emplace the waste, wellbore(s) may be drilled from the Earth's terrestrial surface into the given deep salt formation and then either a mostly horizontal wellbore may be formed within the given deep salt formation and/or a human-made cavern may be formed down and within the given deep salt formation. After emplacement, creep of the deep salt formation will destroy the initial boundaries of the horizontal wellbore and/or of the human-made cavern. This creep sealing process may occur over relatively short time periods.

Systems and methods for exchanging fracturing components of a hydraulic fracturing unit and may include an exchangeable fracturing component section to facilitate quickly exchanging a fracturing component of a hydraulic fracturing unit. The fracturing component section may include a section frame including a base, and a fracturing component connected to the base. The fracturing component section also may include a component electrical assembly and a component fluid assembly connected to the section frame. The fracturing component section further may include a coupling plate connected to the section frame. The fracturing component section also may include one or more of a plurality of quick-connect electrical couplers or a plurality of quick-connect fluid couplers connected to a coupling plate. The quick-connect electrical and fluid couplers may be positioned to receive respective electrical and fluid connections of the component electrical and fluid assemblies and connect to other portions of the hydraulic fracturing unit.

In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a method of subsurface sequestration of CO.sub.2 in a geological basin includes identifying one or more subsurface sequestration locations in the geological basin and injecting an aqueous CO.sub.2 solution to be sequestered into the geological basin. The one or more subsurface sequestration locations are regions of deeper geological structure, relative to an adjacent shallower geological structure, into which a negatively buoyant fluid injected into the basin will sink. The aqueous CO.sub.2 solution comprises a density that is greater than the density of the water naturally present in the geological basin, such that the injected aqueous CO.sub.2 solution pools in the one or more subsurface sequestration locations.

A self cleaning leak containment apparatus for an oil drilling rig includes nozzles to direct jets of cleaning fluid into the apparatus. The self cleaning leak containment apparatus can include a tray with nozzles fed by pumps that also serve to drain the tray. A sheet-form around the tray and draining into the tray can also have nozzles directed into it.