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One Hundred Octopi and Counting: Lessons in Online Solids Management

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

A horizontal separator is typically the first piece of equipment downstream of the wellhead choke, dividing the flow into gas, oil, and water streams based on density difference. Across today’s dominant shale plays, however, most solids flowing into surface production equipment are back-produced proppant from hydraulic fracture stimulation.