With Labor Day behind us, summer is unofficially over (even though it is so hot here that it doesn’t feel like it yet!). Fall busy season is beginning, everyone’s focus is shifting to year-ahead planning, and there are two premium industry executive events coming up in less than 60 days that you should not miss:
- If you work in Appalachian produced water, join us in Pittsburgh next month – more speakers added this week and we welcome two new sponsors too! Precision Geophysical, Inc. together with Mountaineer Well Service and Loud Minerals join us as program sponsor and Curry Fluid Power is exhibiting… register here>
- If you work in Texas water, you’ll want to be at the Houstonian with your peers in early November (the early bird rate is still available and the agenda will be released next week!)… register here>
Now here is this week’s industry news & analysis…
News Digest
WTI Crude Tops $95 For First Time Since June
The U.S. military destroyed five Iranian crude tankers Tuesday in retaliation for attempted attacks on an American warship. The geopolitical premium comes roaring back in oil markets, will tight oil Public E&Ps take their foot off the brakes?
EPA PFAS Biosolids Guidance & Litigation: What a Widening Range of Industries Should Know About Regulatory Risk & Emerging State Law Developments
EPA is recalibrating its approach and litigation is expanding with State law still a wild card, write our friends at O'Melveny.
Perry: Produced water desalination is the future of water supply in Texas
Perry said produced water desalination is one piece of the solution.
Select Publishes New Sustainability Report
In 2025, Select treated or recycled 23.3 billion gallons of water, a 16% increase from 2024
Pennsylvania American needs more time to negotiate a deal with troubled rural water system
If the investor-owned utility and Rock Spring can’t reach an agreement, Pennsylvania American may seek ownership through eminent domain.
M-U Falls to 33, Lowest Since 2024; Nat’l Stuck at 588 3rd Week
Pennsylvania dropped a rig to 15, pulling the combined Marcellus/Utica down to 33 — a number we haven’t printed since the fall of 2024.
WATER TALENT POOL: End Of An Era
Congrats to John Fabor on his retirement after 33 years working on water at Exxon...
WATER TALENT POOL: End Of An Era Part 2
Marshall Adkins yesterday announced by email his retirement from Raymond James after 31 years - he's been a great speaker at our events in the past and has made some big contributions to the oil narrative as a well known macro analyst...
Diversified to acquire Birch Permian for $1.8 billion
Diversified Energy is expanding the Permian Basin portfolio it gained last year with the purchase of Maverick Natural Resources.
US Is Losing Ability To Store Water When It Needs It Most
Drought is emptying reservoirs. Wildfires and extreme rain are filling them with sediment...
Rep. Goodwin talks water protection, industry impact at Permian Basin town hall
Democratic nominee for Texas Lieutenant Governor Vikki Goodwin brought her campaign trail to the Permian Basin Tuesday evening, hosting a town hall focused on the preservation and protection of Texas’ water resources.
This West Texas town could lose a vital groundwater source to far-off cities
A new water fight is brewing in West Texas, where a distant public utility has bought the right to pump almost all of the available water from an aquifer near Fort Stockton that is a lifeline for dozens of local ranchers.
OPED: 1.2 Million Oil Wells Are Buried Underneath Texas. Do You Live on Top of a Dangerous One?
This spring, a Permian Basin pastor got an unpleasant surprise: a geyser of more than 1.5 million gallons of toxic brine gushing up through the parking lot of the First Baptist Church in Grandfalls.
U.S. June Oil Production Rose
U.S. June oil production increased by 37 kb/d to 13,792 kb/d. The largest increase came from the GOM, 88 kb/d, while the largest decrease came from Texas, 75 kb/d.
In Broader Midstream News... Summit Midstream confirms expansion of Double E pipeline in Delaware Basin
Supported by new transportation agreements, Summit will install a bi-directional mainline compressor station to increase the pipeline’s forward haul capacity to Waha hub by about 900 million cfd.
Oilfield Water Issue In The Land Down Under...
Fears ‘toxic’ fracking wastewater ponds could overflow into Australia's Kimberley river...
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