Voyager Midstream, a newly formed independent midstream company headquartered in Houston and Midland, Texas, announced it has secured an initial capital commitment from Pearl Energy Investments to pursue the acquisition and development of crude oil, natural gas, and produced water infrastructure across key North American supply basins. Voyager’s founding partners, Will Harvey and Martin McHale, are energy industry and midstream veterans with a track record of success. Harvey most recently was the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for Aris Water Solutions...

Cowboy Exploration has secured a substantial capital commitment for the purpose of acquiring and holding producing non-operated working interests in conventional wells.

Berkshire Hathaway is using a dip in commodity prices to load up on some of Buffett’s favourite oil and gas investments

Doing more with less is going to be an E&P theme to watch. From Matador's new press release this week: "We currently plan to operate just seven drilling rigs for the remainder of 2023.... Due to the various work by our drilling and completions teams to increase our capital and operational efficiencies, we expect to turn to sales the same number of operated wells in 2023 as we had previously planned... We will continue to evaluate when to add back an eighth drilling rig depending on our realization of decreased service costs" etc.

Water resides at the convergence of so many matters: human health and economic output, environmental health and stability, energy production, and energy transition; the list is as long as you want to make it. Its critical importance to so many diverse interests makes water simultaneously exciting and confounding.

Nice shot of water infrastructure here courtesy of Cascade Services and Jennay Swinbank...

Select joins as lanyard sponsor and Microfinish Valves is exhibiting sponsor. There are a few last minute sponsorship opportunities if your organization would like visibility with the biggest names in Appalachian water attending this event. It's coming together great with over 100 folks expected and the who's who of regional water on the attendee list!

The speaker list features many of the region's top E&P water managers as well as service leaders in the Appalachian Water Sector. The agenda tackles the most important water market issues in the shale play.

Different chemical processes are utilized for extracting lithium from various sources, including salars, lithium-bearing minerals, lithium-bearing clays, recycled batteries, oilfield produced water, hydrothermal deposits, and seawater. To achieve efficient and sustainable production, it is essential to comprehend the chemical mechanisms involved in each process.