Oilfield Water Weekly

Registrations are picking up for our two water events this fall already! Don’t miss it when everyone from the Marcellus Produced Water scene gets together in Pittsburgh (details) and the Southwest Produced Water industry meets at the Houstonian again (details).

Now here is this week’s industry news & analysis…

News Digest

Rising Pressures and Legacy Wells — Katie Smye Weighs In On The Permian Basin’s Next Challenge

If you were at our event in DFW last month, you heard the great Katie Smye speak during a panel. Now you can read her latest thoughts here... always great knowledge from Katie!

Record-low U.S. shale well backlog curbs fast output gains amid export surge

U.S. shale producers have the lowest stock of drilled-but-uncompleted wells on record, limiting their ability to move quickly to boost crude output and replace rapidly depleted oil inventories after exports and refinery processing jumped to plug the shortfall in supply caused by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

Looking Good In The PRB - Concept Tanks!

This is the start of two 500k bbl Concept Tanks installed for an oil & gas client in Wyoming's Powder River Basin...

Produced Water Reuse Splits at the Permian Basin: Texas’s TCEQ Builds a Permit Pathway While New Mexico’s WQCC Reopens the Reuse Fight

When it comes to produced water use and reuse, Texas and New Mexico are on the same road but at very different mileposts. Good take from Beatty & Wozniak here...

WATER TALENT POOL: CORE Linepipe Is Hiring

Looking for a great place to work….. they have it…

TETRA FID On Bromine Production Facility...

This investment will secure a long-term, low-cost domestic supply of elemental bromine – the critical feedstock for our deepwater completion fluids and TETRA energy storage electrolyte products.

New PW White Paper From Elsevier

Optimize oil and gas production efficiencies based on produced water analysis...

New Hydrogen Sulfide Removal Process Treating Gas from Production Separator In Permian

Merichem Technologies, a global leader in sustainable sulfur removal and treatments, today announced successful results from its ECOTREAT® field trial in the Permian Basin, demonstrating that its new hydrogen sulfide (H2S) removal process achieved sustained removal of > 99% of hydrogen sulfide gas without producing ANY solid waste products.

Israeli Firm Picked for Texas Desalination Plant

Corpus Christi, Texas, home to major oil refineries, petrochemical plants, LNG export terminals, manufacturing facilities, and other national security industries, is facing a water crisis that has prompted local officials to look to the Gulf of Mexico for help.

M&A Interest In Devon's Marcellus Assets...

Devon Energy has received a ~$8B offer from money manager Stone Ridge Asset Management for its Marcellus shale assets in Pennsylvania that previously belonged to Coterra, Reuters reported Friday

Data centers have a major water problem. Texas oil companies think they have the solution.

Thirsty data centers are cropping up all over Texas, as the state contends with a water shortage so severe that entire communities are running dry.

Water usage restrictions lowered to Stage One for Alpine residents after weeks of strict conservation efforts

Residents of Alpine can resume more daily water uses as restrictions now indicate only "mild" water shortage conditions.

Will Desal Scale? Nobody Knows Yet.

"One thing I find fascinating about the water sector right now is how many smart people are attacking the economics rather than just the engineering."

SitePro Forms Strategic Partnerships with Western Hydro Engineering and Nutrien Ag Solutions

New partnerships at SitePro outside of produced water...

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Start Time	Description
8:00 am	private meeting, separate registration required
10:30 am	private meeting, separate registration required
12:00 pm	private meeting, separate registration required
1:00 pm	private meeting, separate registration required
2:00 pm	in the Irving Convention Center exhibit hall (ground floor)
5:00 pm	private meeting, separate registration required
6:00 pm	Texican Court; open to all conference registrants; enjoy drinks, snacks, networking, & live entertainment, sponsored by
7:30 pm
7:30 pm	Invitation only, sponsored by

Start Time	Description
7:45 am
8:30 am	Kickoff sponsor Pete Cook, Managing Partner, Oilfield Water Connection Joseph Triepke, Managing Partner, Oilfield Water Connection
8:40 am	Jorge Corral, Senior Managing Director, Accenture Joseph Triepke, Managing Partner, Oilfield Water Connection
9:00 am	Robert Crain, Executive Vice President, Texas Pacific Water Resources Scott Mitchell, CEO, Deep Blue Jon VandenBrand, Senior Vice President, Western Midstream Bentsen Falb, Managing Director, Raymond James (Moderator)
9:45 am	Ryan Hassler, Vice President, Rystad Energy
10:15 am	Kelly Bennett, Co-Founder & CEO, B3 Insight
10:45 am	exhibit hall refreshments & coffee available throughout the day, coffee sponsored by:
11:15 am	Christian Herrington, Senior Director - Commercial Operations, WaterBridge Hayden McEntire, Senior VP - Integrated Operations and Planning, WaterBridge Taylor Spalla, Partner, Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP (Moderator)
11:45 am	Alex Wylie, CEO, LibertyStream John Gunn, Manager of Emerging Technologies, Bechtel Jinxuan Hu, Vice President Engineered Water Solutions, Select Water Solutions John Durand, CEO, Magnificent Desolation LLC [Moderator]
12:30 pm
1:30 pm	Tyler Milam, Senior Vice President, Kinetik Sean Puryear, CEO, Permian Oilfield Partners Graeme Valentine, Producer, Price Forbes & Partners Tim Carroll, Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. Senior Vice President Jason Schumacher, Partner, O’Melveny & Myers LLP (Moderator)
2:15 pm	Robert Ballantyne, Senior Vice President, RWI Enhanced Evaporation
2:30 pm	Will Bernitsky, Senior Director - Commercial Operations, Bison Water Midstream John Cave, Senior Foreman Water, Expand Energy Matt Tate, VP, Dakota Midstream Bret Sumner, Shareholder, Beatty & Wozniak, P.C. (Moderator)
3:15 pm	Nick Jeffries, Vice President North America, Concept Tanks
3:30 pm	Michael Otto, President, Industrial Process Filtration
3:45 pm	Travis Mosher, President, R.B. Mosher Co. Ted Wooten, Chief Engineer, Railroad Commission of Texas Nathan Alleman, Chief Regulatory Advisor, Ace Energy Advisors Brandon Durrett, Partner, Jackson Walker LLP (Moderator)
4:30 pm	sponsored by
5:30 pm	practice for tomorrow's tournament, play a round, or just hang out and watch and network! the courts will be directly in the convention center this year...
6:30 pm	evening free for client dinners (many options in walking distance near the Irving Convention Center!)

Start Time	Description
8:00 am
9:00 am	Pete Cook, Managing Partner, Oilfield Water Connection Joseph Triepke, Managing Partner, Oilfield Water Connection
9:15 am	Raymond Vaz, Energy Marketing Professional, Devon Energy Vrajesh Mehta, Water Manager, Oxy Luis Baez, Independent [Moderator]
10:00 am	Katie Smye, Principal Investigator, UT Center for Injection and Seismicity Research Vitalis Nzerem, Pressure Mitigation Advisor, ExxonMobil Noah Ahmed, Senior Manager - Strategy & Special Projects, Select Water Solutions Patrick Patton, VP, B3 Insight (Moderator)
10:45 am	exhibit hall refreshments & coffee available throughout the day, coffee sponsored by:
11:00 am	Stephen Cole, Executive VP & Partner, Five Point Energy Joshua Lancaster, Business Development, Delek Logistics John Nesland, Founder & Managing Partner, Baymont Advisors (Moderator)
11:30 am	Barry Barksdale, President, PDS Energy Information Philip Tominac, Sr. Engineer, National Energy Technology Laboratory Joseph Triepke, Managing Partner, Oilfield Water Connection (Moderator)
12:00 pm	main conference ends; post-conference pickleball tournament begins (separate tickets purchased during registration required)
12:05 pm	courts next to exhibit hall with open bar and food provided; open only to conference registrants who sign up for player or spectator passes during online registration
12:15 pm	served at the pickleball courts; open only to conference registrants who sign up for player or spectator passes during online registration
1:00 pm	next to exhibit hall with open bar and food provided; open only to conference registrants who sign up for player or spectator passes during online registration; swag and lessons included plus play for bragging rights and trophy sponsored by Texas Pacific with paddles sponsored by Western Midstream and sweatbands by Patriot Environmental and food and beverages sponsored by River Basin Rentals!
4:00 pm	trophies awarded to winners; conference adjourns

Start Time	Description
10:30 am	Private meeting, separate registration required
12:00 pm	Private meeting, separate registration required
1:00 pm	Private meeting, separate registration required
2:00 pm	In the Irving Convention Center Ballroom
5:00 pm	Private meeting, separate registration required
6:00 pm	Open to all conference registrants; drinks, snacks, entertainment; sponsored by
7:30 pm	Invitation only, sponsored by

Start Time	Description
7:30 am	In exhibit hall
8:15 am	kick-off sponsored by Pete Cook, Oilfield Water Connection Joseph Triepke, Oilfield Water Connection
8:30 am	Ryan Hassler, Rystad Energy
9:00 am	Tracee Bentley, Permian Strategic Partnership [Chair] Ray Perryman, The Perryman Group Karr Ingham, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers Kirk Edwards P.E., Latigo Petroleum
9:45 am	Kelly Bennett, B3 Insight
10:15 am	break sponsor
10:45 am	Brian Bohm, Independent [Chair] Steven Runyan, Coterra Energy John Cave, Expand Energy Chance Freeman, Civitas Resources Tyler Mitchell, Devon Energy
11:30 am	Robert Ballantyne, RWI Enhanced Evaporation
11:35 am	Bentsen Falb, Raymond James [Chair] Nick Patterson, Aris Water Solutions Jon VandenBrand, Western Midstream Zach Neal, Pilot Water Solutions
12:15 pm	With time to visit exhibit hall; Sponsorship available
1:30 pm	Tim Carroll, Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. James Brewins, Price Forbes & Partners Pete Cook, Oilfield Water Connection [Moderator]
1:50 pm	Michael Bodino, Texas Capital Bank
1:55 pm	Jason Schumacher, O’Melveny & Myers LLP
2:15 pm	3 rotations (15-minute each) to join tables hosted by E&P representatives for candid dialog The Facility Of The Future In Produced Water (Steven Runyan, Coterra Energy) Loving/Reeves County Mid- to Long-term Production Assurance & Water Disposal Plans (Kirby Lindsey, Oxy) Land & Water (Chance Freeman, Civitas Resources) Where Does Water Midstream Fit In E&P Portfolios (Tyler Mitchell, Devon Energy) Evaporators & Crystallizers (Paul Hart, Diversified) Beneficial Reuse Public-Facing Strategy (Stuart Mussler, Chevron) Water Reuse & Recycling (John Cave, Expand Energy) Nanotechnology for Subsurface Water Management (Steve Gornick, 9Band Operating)
3:00 pm	In exhibit hall
3:30 pm	Patrick Patton, B3 Insight [Chair] Ted Wooten, Railroad Commission of Texas Annan Pascoe, Deep Blue Water Taylor Sanchez, Diamondback Kirby Lindsey, Occidental Oil & Gas Corporation
4:10 pm	Kieron Jeffries, Concept Tanks
4:15 pm	Casey Lowary, Texas Capital Bank [Chair] Cory Hall, AQT Water Management Dan Montgomery, Bison Water Midstream Stan Berry, S&P Global Commodity Insights Benjamin Johnson, Texas Capital Securities
5:00 pm	Sponsored by
6:30 pm	Evening free for client dinners

💧 News Digest Issue #367