We just recently restarted our facilities in the basin, and we are currently treating approximately 8,000 bbl/d. However, as deployed infrastructure is quickly brought to full capacity, we expect production should increase to 25,000 bbl/d in the near term.

B3 Insight's Oilfield Water Stewardship Council aims to establish industry-endorsed ESG reporting standards for oil and gas industry water management.

A North Dakota-based oil and gas chemical production company, Creedence Energy Services, recently recapitalized Farmington-based Magna Energy Services and expanded into a new facility in Carlsbad.

"Select Energy is wheeling and dealing in the water management, stimulation chemicals, and ESG space. So far we like most of what we see."

Ohio law allows produced water pumped out of wells alongside oil and gas to be spread on roads to control ice or dust, but its sale and application are tracked and regulated. Now Senate Bill 171 and House Bill 282 would do away with those requirements for one company’s processed oil and gas byproduct.

Michael founded Fulcrum Specialty Resources, a water midstream business in the Delaware Basin he later sold successfully.

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XRI has added an ESG dashboard to their website.

This Barnett Shale, water hauling company is still for sale. Netting right at $105,000 per month for 2021.

A review of the properties of iron compounds and their impact in shale produced water treatment with an emphasis on their colloidal forms. A wide range of problems is associated with these compounds in produced water including emulsion stabilization, oil-coated solids, pad formation in separators, pipeline solids, and plugging of water disposal formations.

Brent Halldorson writes: "Water and energy development are inextricably linked. In fact, I have used the analogy that we are essentially farming when we recover hydrocarbons buried deep under the earth. Our organic hydrocarbon crop is being harvested from deep beneath the soil using water. Instead of irrigating to grow the crop, we are using hydraulic fracturing to bring the mature crop to market."

Researchers recently began studying how produced water, a combination of flowback and formation water brought to the surface with crude oil and natural gas, could be used to solve water scarcity.

It became clear that formations producing 8-10 barrels of water for every barrel of oil don’t actually have a water problem—they have a wettability problem. When the formation is preferentially water wet, it releases more water than oil. ESal now knew how to make seemingly small changes, without using chemicals, which would boost the oil percentage in the production flow.