Looking to turn the Bakken’s largest waste product into profit, Wellspring Hydro plans of building a facility that can process produced water into materials such as Hydrochloric Acid, Caustic Soda, and even Lithium.

As oil and gas markets continued to grow along with operations in the Permian Basin early this year, so too did efforts to mitigate the environmental impacts of the industry.

A bill easing aboveground storage tank regulations was rendered significantly more lenient toward oil and gas tank operators by an amendment.

The increase in average well costs was due primarily to changes made during the fourth quarter of 2021 to the Company's expected frac pace to mitigate impacts on the Company's produced water position due to system constraints. In the fourth quarter of 2021, the Company turned in-line the first well pad in West Virginia supported by the Big Water Network, the Company's internally-developed water infrastructure project

4Q21 earnings season takes the longest of any earnings season to play out, but reports are starting to trickle in. And with them we are getting some interesting first looks at how far E&P spending is going to go in 2022.

The produced water research plan focuses on identifying the research, development, testing and evaluation needed to enable the state of New Mexico to establish standards for the treatment and safe fit-for-purpose reuse of oil and gas wastewater for industrial and commercial applications to improve economic development and fresh water supply security and sustainability.

In 2022, more and more industry groups, think tanks, and regulators will be trying to change oilfield water management that for the better. Movers and shakers are realizing that the ground is already moving and shaking.

Sourcenergy reports a decrease of 6.8% in the number of public notices of intent to drill new SWD wells in the Permian Basin for the month of January 2022 vs December 2021. January totals come in at 41 vs 44 in December 2021.

Texas Water Trade today announced a milestone three-year agreement to purchase firm water to support Matagorda Bay, a rich coastal ecosystem on the Gulf of Mexico fed by the Texas Colorado River.

Oil prices recouped losses on Wednesday as investors weighed conflicting statements on the possible withdrawal of some Russian troops from around Ukraine amid tight global supplies and recovering fuel demand.

The new dedicated long-term agreement spans an area over 300,000 acres in New Mexico and Texas and includes committed produced water volumes and recycled water services.

Adding to the pain of inflation and post-pandemic supply chain woes: between cancelling Keystone XL, classification of produced water as toxic waste, and other stringent anti-fossil fuel policies, Biden's government has reached into your pocket and nabbed $1000, and possibly more.

The number of drilling rigs operating nationally climbed by 22 to 635 this week, according to oil field services company firm Baker Hughes. Energy companies have added 238 rigs over the past year, a 60 percent from 397 during the same week in 2021.

TX RRC identifies 14 wells...

Publicly-held Cyber Enviro-Tech, Inc. of Scottsdale, Arizona, (OTC Pink: CETI) is announcing the deployment of its first downhole pump and related oil production and water filtration technologies on a 500-acre mineral lease. CETI is formally the operator of record with the Railroad Commission of Texas. Based on an independent geological study, the mineral lease has an estimated 45MM barrels of oil reserves (...over $4 Billion at current market price).

Production from America’s Permian Basin reached a record high for the second month in a row in January as a red-hot price rally keeps shale drillers busy.

NXMR has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the assets and book of oilfield business from Defender Contracting, LLC, a Texas limited liability company, located in Monahans, Texas. Defender specialized in bulk transportation services (e.g., asset-based trucking, chemical hauling, plant to plant transfers, etc.), oil and gas services (e.g., water hauling, drilling and frac site hauling, drilling fluids and kill mud, freshwater and kill mud, and frac tank rental and transport, etc.),

Many new projects have been announced near Trenton that will diversify North Dakota’s economy while reducing the state’s carbon footprint. One of them aims to turn a common oilfield waste product into valuable materials.

The American West’s megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and is a worst-case climate change scenario playing out live, a new study finds.