Assessment of Some Heavy Metal Concentrations in Drilling Mud samples in Az Zubair Oil Field, Basra, Iraq | ||
| Engineering and Technology Journal | ||
| Article 12, Volume 36, 1B, January 2018, Pages 68-75 PDF (1.18 M) | ||
| DOI: 10.30684/etj.36.1B.12 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Sahar A. Amin* 1; Abdul Hamid M. J. Al- Obiady2; Rana R. Alani2; Athmar A. Al-Mashhady2 | ||
| 1Environmental Research Center, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq | ||
| 2Environmental Research Center University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Analysis of eight heavy metal concentrations (Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn) of 14 drilling mud samples collected from oil well at different depths which is located in AZ Zubair oil field-Basra was done in this study . The samples were measured using atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Obtained results indicated that the heavy metal concentrations range from the lowest value of 1.66mg/kg for Cd to the highest value of 1235.86mg/kg for Fe. The abundance trend for the heavy metals concentration was in the descending order of Fe, Mn, Ni, Cu, Cr, Zn, Pb, and Cd. Four parameters: Enrichment Factor (EF), Contamination Factor (CF), Geo-accumulation Index (Igeo) and Pollution Load Index (PLI) were assessed in order to evaluate the degree of contamination. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Heavy Metals; Drilling mud; spectrophotometry; Oil Well; Az Zubair | ||
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