Solids and Fluids DIsposal

At our Halfway Facility, located between Hobbs, NM and Carlsbad, NM, CRI disposes and recycles all types of non-hazardous oilfield waste from produced salt water to drilling mud and cuttings.  In those cases where a unique or uncommon waste product exists we can provide testing and documentation (such as a Material Safety Data Sheets, or MSDS) prior to making a decision on whether or not we can properly dispose of such waste streams. 

Solid wastes placed into our landfill disposal site.  Some solid wastes may require additional solidification prior to permanent disposal in the landfill.  Produced water is placed into our SWD system.  However, it has been our experience that water vacuumed off of a reserve pit in particular can cause significant damage to our SWD system.  Therefore, CRI finds it necessary to clearly define produced water as water generated from a completed, producing well stored in tanks on producing leases.  PW does not include fluids from workover or drilling operations, flowback, reserve pits, overflow pits, mud pits, salt-water disposals, sumps, yard pits, wash-out pits, gas plants, refineries, gathering systems, or compressor stations no matter how clear it may appear.

The following documents are the requirements and procedures for acceptance of material and waste at the CRI facility.

All material must be exempt by RCRA or tested non-hazardous.