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TX 75083-3836, U.S.A., fax 01-972-952-9435. AcknowledgmentsThis paper is part of the output of a two year study which was funded as part of the UK Department of Trade and Industry's LINK Programme, under the Sustainable Technologies Initiative, with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), matched by industry, largely through in-kind contributions in identifying and providing data, case studies and research papers. The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge the fundors and the many people from the industry who gave of their time, without whom the project would not have been possible. AbstractThere is currently no evidence of harm to the marine environment from produced water, but a number of areas of uncertainty remain. Using a novel methodology to compare a number of different techniques of reducing produced water discharges, it is found that these techniques have significant environmental and financial implications. In the absence of evidence of actual environmental harm being caused by produced water, the current policy objective of achieving zero discharge of hazardous substances in produced water implies a relatively high social valuation of the reduction in environmental risk that this achieves.

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TX 75083-3836, U.S.A., fax 01-972-952-9435. AcknowledgmentsThis paper is part of the output of a two year study which was funded as part of the UK Department of Trade and Industry's LINK Programme, under the Sustainable Technologies Initiative, with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), matched by industry, largely through in-kind contributions in identifying and providing data, case studies and research papers. The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge the fundors and the many people from the industry who gave of their time, without whom the project would not have been possible. AbstractThere is currently no evidence of harm to the marine environment from produced water, but a number of areas of uncertainty remain. Using a novel methodology to compare a number of different techniques of reducing produced water discharges, it is found that these techniques have significant environmental and financial implications. In the absence of evidence of actual environmental harm being caused by produced water, the current policy objective of achieving zero discharge of hazardous substances in produced water implies a relatively high social valuation of the reduction in environmental risk that this achieves.