The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) said it issued 83% more drilling permits year/year in August in its East Texas District, which includes the state’s portion of the gassy Haynesville Shale.

Quietly, the Texas land rig count is flat since May and down from the recent highs in August. Both the Eagle Ford and Permian rig counts are basically flat over this time period, and so is drilling in the Bakken and Marcellus. Also concerning to the growth outlook, Permian new well permit demand is falling, suggesting that a flat rig count into year-end may be the new bull case. Specifically, drilling permit demand is down 17% so far in 2H22 compared to 1H22 in TX Permian.

"$489 million has been put in place to support the I-20 development in Midland-Odessa, one of the least safe places in the state to travel. There’s tons of traffic, bridges being hit and so the entire Commission has been to put a lot of funding in the Midland-Odessa area on that project.”

The new acquisitions involve partnering with highly regarded operators in 17 new wells spanning a three-county area.

Fitch Ratings has affirmed WaterBridge Midstream Operating LLC's (WATOPE) Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'B-'. The senior secured rating has been affirmed at 'B'/'RR3'. The Rating Outlook has been revised to Positive from Stable.

Drawing upon expert analyses of a survey of more than 300 U.S. water industry stakeholders, the 2022 Water Report gives an overview of what’s changed – and what has not – in an industry with enormous potential to accelerate innovation in strategy, operations and funding.

The frac sand supply chain, specifically customers of Northern White Sand (NWS), dodged a bullet this time. Here is what frac folks were doing to get ready had last week's railroad service black-out actually happened...

Jazzed by strong worldwide demand and crackerjack technology, the Permian Basin will set an all-time record for oil production in October.

And that revenue has been increasing steadily over the past decade, he said, almost doubling for fiscal year 2022 over the previous year, from just more than $1.2 billion to almost $2.6 billion, Bloom said.

The Loyalsock Creek has a plume of sediment pollution in it, the result of a company that is withdrawing water for Marcellus Shale-related activities. The state Department of Environmental Protection places blame on Pennsylvania General Energy Co., of Warren.

As our nation’s second largest producer of natural gas, Pennsylvania’s energy sector and union workers across the commonwealth work in tandem as one unified team.

Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) announced that it has selected West Virginia for a 1,800-megawatt, combined-cycle natural gas power station (using Marcellus/Utica gas) that also uses carbon capture and storage (required window dressing in this day and age).

In a move aimed at boxing in the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), a group of Pennsylvania State Senators filed a lawsuit in January 2021 against the DRBC accusing the quasi-governmental agency of “taking” the property rights of PA residents without just compensation under the law over the DRBC’s ban on fracking.

A major psychological milestone was hit this month for the first time. Natural gas production in the Lower 48 States passed 100 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d).

U.S. shale drillers are struggling to meet strong demand for gas from domestic generators as well as customers in Europe and Asia scrambling for replacement supplies following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Improved water treatment technology and in-basin use of frac sand are rapidly becoming industry best practices.

Zavanna estimates that 9,800 barrels (411,600 gallons) of produced water were released. An unknown amount entered Stony Creek.

They recently announced the creation of the Division of Advanced Remediation Technologies’ Water Management program, which for the first time brings all FECM water management activities under one roof in order to advance the affordability, reliability, sustainability, and resilience of water in the energy sector.

DCVC leads the largest Series A funding round for a water technology company with $33 million in financing to scale ZwitterCo’s revolutionary membrane technology that treats the toughest industrial wastewaters for reuse and is immune to irreversible fouling.