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What does is cost to make a barrel of Slop Oil?

Crude oil is currently around $40-$60/bbl. Because of poor oil and water interface/separation control, refineries
accidentally dump crude oil and/or refined product to the Waste Water Treatment System (WWTS) on a regular
basis. The Oil/Product is not actually lost but is recovered in the WWTS/API Separator. However, it is no longer
virgin Crude Oil or Refined Product - the lights have evaporated, the product has been sheared and emulsified
by pumps & contaminated with solids. In effect, it has been reduced to recovered SLOP OIL.

The typical refinery will accidentally dump 0.5% to 1.0% of its total throughput to the WWTS because of poor
interface/separation control. For a 100,000bpd refinery, this equals 500 to 1,000bpd of recovered SLOP OIL.

What is SLOP OIL worth? It is certainly no longer worth $40 - $60/bbl. Would you be willing to pay $30/bbl for
another refinerys SLOP OIL? Probably notbut for this example, lets say that it COST $20/bbl every time
you make a barrel of SLOP OIL.

Most refineries do not view SLOP OIL as costing them $20/bbl. But it is a COST and a WASTE of valuable
product and refining capacity. Refineries view it simply as a Cost of Doing Business because they have been
making SLOP OIL for the past 50 to 75 years.

In this example, a typical 100,000bpd refinery will make 500bpd of SLOP OIL. At a COST of $20/bbl, that equals
$10,000/day; or $300,000/month; or $3,650,000/year. That is a lot of money in any currency..

By installing Agar ID-200 Interface Detectors, a US refinery was able to reduce its total HC being dumped to
the WWTS by 82% with better interface/separation control (see attached Hydrocarbon Processing article). An
82% reduction in the amount of SLOP OIL being generated is equal to
$2,993,000/year in savings/additional profit. Not just for the first single
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