In less than one week, your customers, competitors, and partners and hopefully you will be getting together in Houston. Sponsorships sold out weeks ago. The speaker list is impressive. The agenda is designed to help you succeed in 2027 and leaves plenty of time for networking.
If you have not yet registered for the 8th Annual Oilfield Water Industry Update, you still can, but you are running out of time… We’ll be looking for you at the Houstonian on Tuesday November 3rd (and remember to vote early since we overlap with election day this year).
Now here is this week’s industry news & analysis. As you read the news article below, notice we’ve highlighted how the newsmakers of this sector will all be at the Houston conference next Tuesday! Join them there, make a deal, and maybe we’ll be writing about your news in the next edition!
News Digest
Pending TCEQ Discharge Regulations Should Go Into Effect Next Month
Hat tip to Pat Knapp at K&L Gates for bringing this up, but TCEQ has noticed they will consider adoption on Nov 4, and if approved, it would go into effect Nov 26, 2026—Thanksgiving Day. You can hear Pat Knapp discuss this and other issues with top water midstream execs next week in Houston!
B3 Insights' Kelly Bennett Shares Quick Thoughts By Video Before Taking The Stage In Houston Next Week
"Water now factors into nearly every stage of the oil production lifecycle, from initial planning through final well closure." Check out this quick video and then come hear Kelly deliver a longer-form keynote near the opening of next week's conference in Houston!
Western Midstream reaches reclaimed water milestone
Western Midstream has reached a significant milestone at its produced water treatment facility, JIP 2, located near Red Bluff Reservoir in Reeves County. The facility has now produced more than 100,000 barrels of reclaimed freshwater. Western Midstream is our notebook sponsor next week in Houston - come grab a notebook and talk with the team behind this project!
Massive Marcellus Gas E&P Deal
EQT will acquire Range in an all-stock transaction to create America's leading natural gas company with a pro forma enterprise value over $50 billion. Will be interesting to see how they integrate infrastructure on the water side of the operation...the big get bigger!
Railroad Commissioner wants to fast-track produced water reuse
Railroad Commissioner sees the water produced alongside the state’s oil and natural gas as a potential answer to water concerns.
How leaking wells and a toxic river convinced these Texas oilpatch conservatives to vote for a Democrat | Opinion
As abandoned wells leak toxic water across West Texas, voters must choose between a qualified engineer and an extremist committed to weakening oversight.
This Texas startup is turning oil well waste into EV batteries
Founded in 2021, Element3 is commercializing U.S. Department of Energy research from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory on ways to filter this oil by-product, and is working across Texas to figure out ways to scale up production. “It’s a wonderful circular economy, waste-to-value story,” said the company CEO and founder, Hood Whitson. YOU'LL GET A CHANCE TO HEAR HOOD SPEAK ON A PANEL AT THE CONFERENCE ON TUESDAY IN HOUSTON!
Carlsbad council approves gas, produced water pipelines near city wells
A natural gas transmission line built by Houston-based Enterprise Products and a produced water line operated by Mewbourne Oil Company were both approved in separate 6-1 votes by the Carlsbad City Council at its Tuesday, Oct. 27 meeting.
West Ranch In Midland And Glasscock Counties Has Been Sold
The West Ranch comprises 10,000 acres across Midland and Glasscock counties and has saltwater disposal (“SWD”) royalties, water sales, and water recycling fees. Bentson Falb from Raymond James advised on the sale. Come talk to him about it next week in Houston - he is speaking at our conference Tuesday!
Vivakor Completes Due Diligence for Proposed $40M Direct Midstream Acquisition
Vivakor, Inc. (Nasdaq: VIVK), a Dallas-based provider of energy transportation, storage, reuse and remediation services, has completed its due diligence review of Direct Midstream, LLC, advancing a proposed $40 million acquisition toward a definitive purchase agreement.
B3 Shares Permian Water Market Outlook
Understanding how reservoir pressure, disposal capacity, and infrastructure investment are shaping the Permian through 2036.
SRBC OKs 33 Well Pad Water Permits in Sept; Bradford Back on Top
The SRBC published a notice in the October 24th Pennsylvania Bulletin that the SRBC approved and/or renewed 33 general water use permits in September for individual shale gas well drilling pads in Bradford, Lycoming, McKean, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, and Wyoming counties.
Every Megawatt of AI Capacity Can Make Up To 200,000 Gallons of Clean Water per Day
Endeavour teams up with Trevi Systems to scale desalination technology driven by data center waste heat and advance zero-discharge solutions that produce clean water without the concentrated brines of conventional desalination plants. The systems can create up to 200,000 gallons (about 750,000 liters) of clean water a day from brackish groundwater for every megawatt of computing capacity, or about 50,000 gallons per day per MW from oilfield produced water.
WTI Over $100 This Morning As 2027 Gets Closer And Budgets For Next Year Are Getting Set
That's gotta mean more activity right? More water too? On Tuesday at the Houston conference, hear from top industry analysts at Rystad as they outline activity forecasts for 2027.
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