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Re:Removing oil left behind in 2.5B gallons of produced wate... by baxtr on Friday March 22, 2019 @11:27AM (#19463469)
I still don’t get it...

EDIT: the first paragraph in the linked article was very insightful

Purdue University researchers have developed a process to remove nearly all traces of oil in produced water.

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Re:Removing oil left behind in 2.5B gallons of produced wate... by howard941 on Friday March 22, 2019 @11:29AM (#19463485)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Produced_water may help?
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Re:Removing oil left behind in 2.5B gallons of produced wate... by jandrese on Friday March 22, 2019 @11:43AM (#19463638)
That seems like an overly flowery term. Why not use "oil well wastewater" that a layman would understand immediately.
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Re:Removing oil left behind in 2.5B gallons of produced wate... by dmoy on Friday March 22, 2019 @11:33AM (#19463526)
That doesn't help before you open the comments section though.
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