Crude oil production contains contaminants such as water, suspended solids and water-soluble salts.  These contaminants are damaging to refinery equipment, and must be removed before crude oil can be processed into fuels and other products.  Secure’s custom treating component of the Full Service Terminals provides separation of crude oil and emulsions prior to delivery to market.

Oil that has been treated and/or delivered to a Secure FST is then transferred from storage to another transportation system, such as trucks or pipelines. The Secure FST plays an important part in the marketing and shipping of crude oil to end-users by providing access to a network of pipeline systems.

Our Full Service Terminals provide for the treatment of tank and vessel residual solids, hydrocarbon contaminated soils and drilling byproducts.  Oil that has been recovered from the processing is pipelined and marketed through a network of pipelines.  Residual treatment waters (Class Ib) are deep well injected at our onsite or pipeline connected Class Ib disposal wells, and solids are transported to a Class II Landfill.

Our Class I Landfills provide for the secure disposal of dangerous oilfield solid wastes and hazardous industrial solid wastes.

Our Class II Landfills provide for the secure disposal of non-dangerous oilfield solid wastes such as drill cuttings, drilling muds, residual solids from tank clean-outs and residual solids from treatment processes.

Our Class II Standalone Water Disposal Facilities are approved by the ERCB to dispose of the following sweet and sour Class II fluids:

Produced water associated with production of oil, bitumen, gas or coalbed methane.
Brine from salt cavern or solution mining operations.
Water based pigging fluids from cleaning of collection and injection lines.
Brine reject from backwash from water softeners associated with enhanced recovery.
Water containing polymers or other chemicals for enhanced recovery.
Waste fluids from circulation during well cementing.
CaCl2 water.

Our Class Ib Water Disposal Wells are approved by the ERCB to dispose of the following sweet and sour Class Ib fluids:

Produced water and specific common oilfield waste fluids.
Saline fluids from oilfield waste processing facilities.
Blowdown waters
Waste fluids from drilling operations and the liquid fraction of drilling muds.
Spent workover or stimulations fluids
Amine filter backwash, liquid fractions of spent sweetening agents and glycol solutions.
Acidic or alkaline, inhibitor and oxygen scavenger solutions with limited heavy metal concentrations.
All other fluids meeting specific pH, flash point, heavy metal and organic halide criteria.