This book provides a roadmap for sustainable development and growth of petroleum industry with respect to water usage and discharge. Water and energy are intricately tied with each other. As a major source of conventional energy, petroleum industries— upstream, midstream, and downstream—are collectively large consumers of water. Increasing water stress in major parts of the world has made the industry aware of the impact of usable water on different sectors of petroleum industry, e.g., exploration and production, refining and fuel processing. Treatment of wastewater effluents to maximize reuse is becoming a primary objective of the industry. This, coupled with the need to minimize discharge of contaminants in the effluents that affect human and aquatic life, and the environment at large at reasonable cost is emerging as an important consideration facing the petroleum industry for its sustainable development and growth in the future decades.

This book discusses in detail:

• Sources of water consumed by petroleum production and processing, and wastewater produced
• Health and environmental effects of chemicals contained in effluent streams
• Effluent treatment processes—current and new innovations, and technologies for reuse

Petroleum exploration
Petroleum production
Petroleum refining
Petrochemical production processes
Wastewater from petroleum
Petroleum wastewater
Water treatment processes
Water reuse
Water-Energy nexus
Sustainable petroleum Industry
Wastewater treatment

• Front Matter
• An Overview of Chemistry and Microbiology of Water
• Principles of Water Treatment
• Water Management in Upstream and Midstream Operations
• Water Use and Wastewater Sources in Downstream and Marketing Operations
• Wastewater Treatment—Downstream and Marketing Operations
• Water and Wastewater Treatment Process Modeling for Petroleum Industrial Operations
• Environment, Health and Safety, Security and Regulations
• Sustainability—Water Recycle and Reuse
• Conclusions and Future Direction of the Industry
• Back Matter

Jewel Innovations in Energy and Environment, Katy, USA
Somnath Basu

Global Practice and Technology, Sustainability and Wastewater, Houston, USA
Andrew R. Shaw

Process, Energy and Environmental Consultant, Andover, USA
Mudumbai Venkatesh

Book Title
Water Management in Petroleum Industries

Editors
Somnath Basu, Andrew R. Shaw, Mudumbai Venkatesh

Series Title
Water Resources Development and Management

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3159-8

Hardcover ISBN
978-981-19-3158-1
Published: 03 July 2025

Softcover ISBN
978-981-19-3161-1
Due: 17 July 2026

eBook ISBN
978-981-19-3159-8
Published: 02 July 2025

Series ISSN
1614-810X

Series E-ISSN
2198-316X

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XIX, 605

Number of Illustrations
81 b/w illustrations, 169 illustrations in colour

Topics
Pollution, general, Water, general, Earth System Sciences, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general