Servicing the Petroleum Industry - NORM & Fixed Radiation Gauges

NORM - Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material
Radiation Professionals consultants have extentisive expertise indenifying and quantifying NORM contaminated sites in the petroleum industy.

NORM is the acronym for Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material. One source of NORM is oil and gas production. While the oil and gas that is extracted from a formation is not radioactive, the water that is also present in these formations often contains low levels of the radionuclide radium-226 (Ra-226), which is of the Uranium 238 decay series. During extraction of the oil and gas, formation water is also extracted. As this water is brought to the surface, some of the dissolved radium precipitates out in solid form. Most commonly, the radium co-precipitates with barium sulfate, a hard and relatively insoluble scale deposit. While the levels of radioactivity are insignificant in the formation water, the scale build-up in the pipes concentrates the radioactivity. This process, analogous to bio-accumulation, is referred to as Technologically-Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (TENORM).
 

    

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