Waste oil source reduction was accomplished on remote site diesel engines by extending oil change intervals using portable field monitors. Incidents of normal and abnormal oil degradation were recorded and correlated between field and laboratory tests. A quality assurance, program evaluated data precision and accuracy.

Keywords:
source reduction, chemical use and storage, upstream oil & gas, cda response, contamination, laboratory analysis, oil degradation, laboratory, us government, spe 26012
Subjects:
Safety, Chemical use and storage
Copyright 1993, Society of Petroleum Engineers
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