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To: RSkarsten who wrote (1140)	12/18/1998 11:26:00 PM
From: grayhairs	Respond to of 15703

Hi Russ, It would take a bunch, that's for sure !! I doubt that boilers would be used for the "job". Rather, I suspect that a portion of the water is simply being dumped into a huge pit (i.e. a big hole or dugout) and gas is discharged through a pipe above the pit and burns close enough to the water to evaporate it. Not very fancy, for sure, but it'd take a several huge boilers to handle 4,500 bbls/d. The "pit" method is simplistic, and it works. Later, grayhairs

To: RSkarsten who wrote (1140)	12/19/1998 9:40:00 AM
From: Stew	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 15703

Doesn't combustion generate it's own moisture?

To: RSkarsten who wrote (1140)	12/19/1998 9:08:00 PM
From: grayhairs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15703

Hi Russ, I just reread the last article by Bob Christie at www.bakersfield.com . It included the following comment: About 9,000 barrels of water are being trucked away to disposal wells each day; the rest is mixed in the gas flare and vaporized. So, they are using a modified pit burn which would certainly yield a higher efficiency. More importantly, if I read Christie's article correctly they are evaporating as much as they are trucking away which would mean total water production is in the order of 18,000 bbls\day (not just a piddly 13,500 bbls\day !!) Have a nice evening. Later, Grayhairs