KMX Technologies (“KMX”) and MP Minería Positiva SRL (“MP+”) today announced the execution of a partnership to bring KMX’s leading lithium concentration technology to the South American market. MP+ is a leading mining technology provider in South America that will incorporate KMX as its exclusive lithium concentration technology.

These prices are insane. Elon Musk is commenting about vertically integrating Lithium and the entire renewables industry is on edge about this potential bottleneck. If you can mine the mineral from produced water streams, that's real waste to value opportunity and feasibility is improving each day lithium prices go up. There's no doubt there'll be more talk about this opportunity at future Oilfield Water Connection events.

When it comes to acknowledging society’s impact on climate, environment, and human security, water is the next frontier for comprehensive accounting and adaptation strategies — for industry, municipalities, governments, and individuals, all of which have made impressive commitments and progress to track carbon pollution.

“With global water demand set to outstrip supply by 40 per cent by 2030, achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 6 (“ensure access to water and sanitation for all”) requires a call for urgent action to resolve the chronic supply-demand imbalance for freshwater resources…”

US land rig count spiked 18 rigs last week. This is only the second time that rig count has moved up this much in a week in over two years.

Horizontal drilling permits for new wells in the Permian Basin hit an all-time high in March, with 904 total permit awards, driven by elevated oil prices and production demand, Rystad Energy research shows.

Both of New Mexico’s oil-producing regions: the Permian Basin in the southeast and San Juan Basin in the northwest have scores of inactive wells, per a recent study by the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, and could be running afoul of state law.

The high-profile leak, which is being investigated by the Texas Railroad Commission, could serve as a warning for the Biden administration, which is trying to switch the country’s economy to cleaner forms of energy and away from oil and gas.

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Public E&Ps have fared better than the overall average charted below, since privates have been basically stuck in a range-bound frac efficiency pattern below the publics since 2020.

The Texas Railroad Commission has released the following statement in regards to Lake Boehmer. “Recent reports state that a water well believed to be the source of Boehmer Lake in Pecos County in West Texas has been releasing unusually high amounts of hydrogen sulfide."

Images from space show just how drastic the drops in Lake Powell's water level has been in the past four years.

Texas is in the worst drought conditions since 2011, when 95% of the state was in drought. Eleven years ago, parched conditions caused over $7 billion in crop and livestock losses, sparked wildfires, pushed power grids to the limit and reduced reservoirs to dangerously low levels, according to the University of Texas at Austin.

Total water usage in California cities and towns decreased by just half a percent in February compared with the same month in 2020, a far cry from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s goal of reducing urban water use by 15%.

U.S. oil executives sought to defuse tensions with Democrats over rising fuel prices in a congressional hearing last Wednesday, assuring Congress they were investing heavily to increase domestic oil production.

The announcement follows Clearfork’s recent acquisition of a natural gas gathering and treating platform that serves core areas of the Haynesville Shale formation and includes more than 500 miles of pipelines and 1.2 billion cubic feet per day of treating capacity across systems in North Louisiana and East Texas.

The Company utilizes recycled produced water in completion operations, minimizing the need for fresh water. Over 80 million total barrels of freshwater have been conserved since the inception of the Company's water recycling program in 2017.

Swirltex announced that they have been awarded a project to supply their proprietary "Buoyancy Enhanced Membrane Filtration" technology for produced water treatment with ARC Resources Ltd., a leading Canadian energy producer in the Montney region. The project is valued at $3 million with potential upside for scale up at higher treatment volumes.