مؤسسة الشرق الأوسط للنشر العلمي
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Produced water is regarded as the largest waste stream in the oil and gas industry and has a comparatively higher concentration of organic, inorganic, heavy metal, and other contaminants. In addition, the amount of produced water generated worldwide has increased as a result of increased industrial activity and from an environmental standpoint. Moreover, deep well injection is the conventional method of disposing of produced water, but it is becoming less viable because of increased regulations, high operating costs, and limited disposal capacity. Therefore, assessing and treating the qualities of produced water is critical for reservoir and environmental management. This study is intended to determine and evaluate the physical and chemical characteristics of produced water for pits in the AL-Nafoora oil field because the total of this kind of water in the Nafoora oil field was dispelled to water pits without treatment or reused in injection and compared the result with the permissible standard of USEPA (2001), (GWPC, 2015), and NRCS (1997) for water reuse and permissible standard (WHO, 2022) for drink water. The study was carried out on the volumes of produced water from four pits, the water produced between January and December a year of 2023. Furthermore, the evaluation included the analysis of physical/chemical such as pH, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), cations, anions constituents, and heavy metals. The results obtained from this analysis showed a wide variation in the characteristics of produced water parameters from one pit to another. In addition, the majority of parameters of this type of water were higher than the permissible standard previously mentioned.