The recent news that Select Energy Service is the stalking horse for Basic Energy Services’ water business (Agua Libre Midstream) in their bankruptcy was just the latest in a string of big growth moves for Select in water midstream. Here is analysis of some of the most notable datapoints in Select’s 2021 water midstream growth strategy...

Brian joined Select Energy Services as Vice President Business Unit Operations at Select Energy Services. Previously he was WPX's Senior Foreman in Infrastructure and Water Resources.

Brian Bohm writes: "Sustainability needs to move beyond the focus on Carbon. Access to clean water should be an equal focus to atmospheric Carbon reduction. We can let efforts to grow energy green or fossil to reduce the volume of fresh potable water in the near surface water cycle."

There's hidden hazards threatening water. Deep dark disposal can't conceal the danger. Is deep-injection of hazardous wastes safe? Are deep-injection wells worth the risks? Are they stable?

A big Permian rancher writes: "An operator doesn't have the right to destroy the aquifers or kill the surface owners."

The buzz around “ESG” – short for “environmental, social, and governance” – has grown rapidly since its introduction in 2006 with a sharp increase beginning in early 2019[1]. But what exactly is ESG and how does it apply to the energy sector? In part one of this multi-part series from B3 Insight, we explore the fundamentals of ESG reporting and its use in the energy and water management sectors.

Mark Patzkowski writes: "If you have any experience with DAF operations & recycle drop me a line. A customer of mine is looking for some solid team members due rapid business growth they are experiencing."

The seven years since the heady days of $100/bbl oil in mid-2014 have been a tumultuous time for midstream companies tasked with funding a massive infrastructure build-out to support surging crude oil and natural gas production.

Now that the U.S. is closer to Offshore Carbon Capture Storage (OCCS), via the winning bidder for OCCS being announced this week, how may this conceptually look? Here's a good basic primer that you can digest in 30 seconds...

"The world’s energy majors are playing an outsized role to reduce carbon emissions, but huge opportunities exist for the independents to build sustainable and substantial portfolios that mesh with their oil and gas skill sets, according to Talos Energy Inc. CEO Timothy Duncan."

In winning the State of Texas' RFP for the first large-scale offshore carbon storage site, Talos Energy and Carbonvert Inc. are the first winners in a subsurface land rush that Rusheen Capital Management, LLC believes will be on par, if not bigger, than the shale land boom. Because scale, low-cost storage is a central part of the CCUS/DAC business model, expect to see an entirely new investment class emerge as oil majors and other mineral rights owners (states, countries and sovereigns) start to transition significant portions of their subsurface holdings to carbon management.