Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday the recommendation of 10 Abandoned Mine Lands Economic Revitalization (AMLER) Program projects, utilizing nearly $30 million in federal grant funding for economic growth at abandoned mine land sites across West Virginia, including produced water treatment project.

Senate Bill 294 is slated for two committees in the Senate before the last days of the session.

Just as natural gas pipelines have been busy expanding their capacity, water pipelines are also in expansion mode.

The test at Double Eagle’s recycling facility aligned with Element3’s expectations of recovering more than 85% of the lithium contained in the wastewater with a concentration of less than 40 parts per million lithium. Independent third-party testing verified the lithium chloride produced has the concentration and purity required to create battery-grade lithium carbonate.

A quest for sources of lithium comes as the lucrative element is expected to play a part in global efforts to lower emissions, but in many areas the economics are challenging.

A plan to extract lithium — the lustrous, white metal used in electric vehicle batteries — in southeast Utah is adding to an anxiety familiar in the arid American West: how the project could affect water from the Colorado River.

“From our deep roots in the oil and gas industry, we knew that the most important thing is to be a low-cost operator, so we purposely went out and found an area that is shallow, which really reduces our costs,” explained Smith, who was honoured as Saskatchewan Oilman of the Year in 2009.

The direct lithium extraction plant under construction near California's Salton Sea is the first of seven planned phases for the $1.85 billion facility.

In 2023, Vista Water Solutions acquired the Boxcar SWD near Orla, TX with a permitted capacity of 25k BWD and with multiple pipeline connections. The company is looking to grow in 2024.

U.S. oil output from top shale-producing regions will rise in March to its highest in four months, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Monday in its monthly Drilling Productivity Report.

The flurry of recent activity has raised some eyebrows regarding remaining reserves in the region. Are these concerns justified?

Technical analysis of water & sand.

Investments include treating produced water for reuse for irrigation.

The energy industry was quick to join the technological revolution in the 1980s and before and it has applied its brainpower and resources to more than keep pace since then.

Midland’s T-Bar Ranch water supply was contaminated by produced water in the early 2000s. Despite improvement, the project continues.

Spoof of a Trinidad James video covers the silliness of the anti-fossil fuel position.