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Here is this week’s industry news & analysis…
News Digest
U.S. Midstream Water Market Totals $156bn from 2025–2030
A new Insight Report by Bluefield Research includes estimates and projections on the U.S. midstream water market. See excerpts and charts in this post...
The Permian Basin Gets Its First Firm Large Scale AI Data Center. It's A Big One!
The project aims to leverage natural gas from the Permian Basin to power a data center with two gigawatts of computing capacity - equivalent to the electric generation capacity of the Hoover Dam. How could produced water factor in as more of these enter the region? We have a panel devoted to just that at our 10/30 conference in Houston!
Basin a likely location for future AI data centers
“We have large volumes of produced water that could be repurposed more efficiently than simply injecting it back underground.”
Lithium refining unit headed for Reeves County site
A saltwater disposal well in Reeves County near the New Mexico line is expected to yield commercial-grade lithium carbonate.
WSJ: This Texas Town Is an Energy Powerhouse. It’s Running Out of Water.
Severe drought has Corpus Christi scrambling to meet growing demand from companies like Exxon and Tesla.
Bloomberg: Texas Water Crisis Threatens Booming Industrial Hotspot for Exxon, Koch
Water shortages in South Texas are posing major risks to a fast-growing industrial hub that’s crucial to Trump’s twin goals of dominating global energy markets and slashing trade deficits.
PA DEP Signals It Won’t Renew Permit for Eureka Wastewater Plant
Disposal, at least in Bradford County, has just become more difficult and expensive for Eureka.
CTi Makes An Advisory Board Appointment Focused On Produced Water
Cavitation Technologies, Inc. strengthens its focus on growth in the oil & gas industry.
Will LandBridge’s (LB) Texas Acreage Bet Reshape Its Long-Term Growth Ambitions?
The newly acquired acreage is set to enhance LandBridge’s capacity for water handling infrastructure in the Delaware Basin and positions the company for alternative energy growth due to its proximity to transmission assets and industry demand.
LandBridge Announces Solar Project Transaction with a Leading Energy Infrastructure Developer
The solar project is a 3,000-acre photovoltaic solar energy generation project in Reeves County, Texas with a proposed generation capacity of up to 250 MW.
OPINION: Not a hard and fast rule on oil and gas waste water
Should treated fracking waste (euphemism: “produced water”) be used in ways that don’t include drinking water or watering crops but would reach streams and rivers? The waste contains hundreds of contaminants, which O&G uses “trade-secret” claims to not even identify for us.
OPINION: Produced water, pressure and the right to science
"I am an ecologist with graduate degrees in soil conservation and biology. For more than a decade, I conducted research and taught ecology and land reclamation at the University of New Mexico, following decades of work in applied ecology in the U.S., Latin America, and Central Asia."
Ethics complaint filed against Environment secretary ahead of water quality meeting
A resident of La Cieneguilla has filed a complaint against Environment Secretary James Kenney with the New Mexico State Ethics Commission over a controversial petition to revise regulations on hydraulic fracturing wastewater.
WaterTectonics, Clearvale launch WT Oil & Gas in Midland
A new Midland-based venture aims to provide high-volume, high-performance water treatment solutions to the oil and gas industry.
Int'l But Interesting... Inside the world's biggest water desalination plants
The world's largest producer of desalinated water, Saudi Arabia also makes the most amount of waste from this energy intensive industry; but local researchers are trying to change that.
In other midstream news... Police investigating bomb hoax at Texas pipeline construction site
Federal and Texas law enforcement agencies are investigating a device made to look like a bomb placed at a construction site for a controversial natural gas pipeline on Tuesday, an official said.
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