1 separation process to remove that gas and/or water so that you are 



2 • shipping and transporting primarily just the oil. 



3 DR. AURAND: I guess that takes are of that. Where do we go next? 



4 MR. LANE: Does 48 parts per million scare you? 



5 DR. AURAND: Also, if you were to discharge it on site, it would 



6 be probably a surface discharge; is that correct? 



7 DR. RAY: Assuming there were no stipulations on us, it would 



8 probably be right at the surface or shunted probably within 10 meters of 



9 the surface. 



10 DR. BUTMAN: What would a typical volume be? 



11 DR. RAY: The average volume across all the operations in the Gulf 



12 of Mexico is somewhere in the vicinity of 2,000 barrels a day. In a lot 



13 of areas of the Gulf of Mexico, you have big collection facilities where 



14 you have one big production platform handling the production from a 



15 large number of wells. 



16 When you have central collection facilities like that in older 



17 fields, the total discharge from a single location can be somewhere 



18 around 100 to 140 thousand barrels a day. That's the out-Iyer, but 



19 there are ^ery few of those large volume discharges; the average is in 



20 that couple of thousand a barrels a day range. 



21 DR. GRASSLE: Is there anything known about the geology up in the 



22 northeast that would suggest it would be at the high or low end? 



23 DR. RAY: Not that I know of. I don't think they have found 



24 enough oil to figure out what the produced water characteristics would 



25 be. 



26 DR. TEAL: What did they produce in Hibernia? 



27 DR. KRAEUTER: What about the larger California wells? Have you 



28 got any information on any of those? 



29 DR. RAY: I don't know what their volumes are out there. 



30 DR. BUTMAN: Is that per well or per platform? 



31 DR. RAY: Per platform. Again, I don't have the foggiest idea of, 



32 you know, if you got into a 50- or a 100-slot platform. Let's say you 



33 got lucky out there and you had a big find, you know, you've got a big 



34 field and you have a 50- or a 100-well platform. 



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