Through this transaction, XRI will become the long-term provider to Hibernia of all water-related services to Hibernia, including delivery of completions water and handling of produced water.

Recently, Echo launched a major ESG project called "CleanOnGreen" (CoG). CoG is a joint-venture between Echo Production and Pureline Treatment Systems. The JV objective is to clean oilfield produced water for non-edible agriculture crop production. Echo also announced the appointment of Matthew B. Myers to the Board of Directors. Matthew B. Myers, is the Dean and Tolleson Chair of Business Leadership at the Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University.

For those operators who have reported back, we are showing an impressive average of 55% Produced Water Recycling across the first six months of reporting – more than doubling of prior recycling volumes.

The Texas Produced Water Consortium will be housed at Texas Tech University, and will bring together a wide swath of agency advisors, technical experts and key stakeholders to consider these issues and produce a report with recommendations over the next year....

Record heavy rains drenched the Permian this week, disrupting traffic and causing flooding...

Big volumes of produced oilfield brine, assuming it contains 10% by weight calcium and/or magnesium as chlorides in solution, can be mineralized, using carbon, to permanently sequester over 150 million metric tons of CO₂ per year into a useful, environmentally friendly carbonate aggregate product.

As more Australian miners pledge to be carbon neutral in the next two decades, a new innovative solar-powered technology that will extract pure water from waste streams is helping to push the sector towards becoming a circular economy.

Central States Water Resources has withdrawn an application lodged with the Public Utility Commission of Texas to determine the fair market value of a water system it had intended to buy from Fremont Water Company.

Baker Botts advised Hibernia Energy III, LLC (“Hibernia”) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Celtic Disposal LLC, in the sale of its produced water infrastructure assets to XRI Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of Morgan Stanley Energy Partners (“XRI”).

In New Mexico, the regulators are doing a pretty decent job at assigning permit limits, such that volume and surface pressure utilization are generally on par. The notable exception to this is in Northern Eddy County, where surface pressure utilization (58%) is almost twice that of permitted volume utilization (32%), suggesting that few, if any, deep wells in the area will achieve their volumetric goals.

The rule would ban fracing but the California Geologic Energy Management Division said on Monday that the rule would not affect oilfield wastewater disposal, cyclic steaming, steam floods, or water floods.