The Moneta Divide Project would allow Aethon Energy to pump some 30,000 barrels of fracking wastewater, 15,000 feet underground, with most of that water going into the Madison formation. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said 1,500 feet. (10 a.m., Dec. 31, 2020)

Two oilfield navigation projects in Terrebonne and Lafourche are among Louisiana projects that won final approval Sunday after a week of political debate over Congress' COVID-relief and government spending bill.

Leyden sees produced water “and water in general as a resource” as an issue for the industry. He applauded efforts in Texas and New Mexico to recycle produced water as it takes pressure off the region’s limited fresh water supplies. As to alternative uses for treated produced water outside the oil patch, “the jury is out on answering that question.”

The New Mexico State Land Office will no longer allow oil refineries to use fresh water from state trust lands. Companies holding easements that allow them to pump fresh water from government lands were notified of the policy change by Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard in a letter.

President-elect Joe Biden’s apparent nomination of U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) to head the U.S. Department of the Interior for the incoming administration was denounced by New Mexico oil and gas industry leaders and extraction supporters who feared Haaland’s environmental record could mean stricter restrictions on the fossil fuel sector.

About twice a week, oil and gas operators in Colorado’s Piceance Basin file “Form 19” also called a Spill/Release Report with the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC). Nine times out of 10, the spilled substance is produced water.

Contaminated water that leaked from an oilfield pipeline on Christmas Day has entered the North Saskatchewan River but has had no detectable impact on it, says a spokesman for Calgary-based oil and gas producer ARC Resources Ltd.

Waterflooding is the oldest method used for secondary recovery in oil fields because water is readily available and relatively inexpensive. Although the concept behind waterflooding is relatively simple and easy to implement, the reality is different...

An energy company again is suing an Indiana County municipality over the right to deposit wastes from oil and gas extraction or fracking there.

​As global megatrends require many industries to find innovative ways to be sustainable and more energy-efficient, a recent paper by a KAUST Ph.D. student and collaborators, published in Nature Communications, offers a novel perspective. The research details a process where ammonium present in wastewater can be removed directly in one step together with the recovery of energy in the form of electrical current or energy-rich hydrogen gas.

Intrepid Potash (Denver, Colorado) said on Wednesday that potash pricing is trending upward after December price increases and the outlook for drilling and fracking activity continues to improve. ...

Addressing the environment, the survey also asked respondents about plans to reduce CO2 emissions, methane emissions, flaring and recycled or reuse produced water. Large firms – classified as those producing 10,000 barrels of oil per day or more – planned to address those issues, led by recycling or reusing water and reducing flaring.

Fracking threatens drinking water on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. Meet the locals who are fighting back.

Montana-based company PA Prospect Corporation submitted an application to the Railroad Commission of Texas to build a 256.7-acre facility to store, handle, treat and dispose of non-hazardous oil and gas waste in San Augustine County.

Among the myriad industries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic is one particularly critical to Texas: oil.

Oil and gas contributed about $1.37 billion to public education in New Mexico, per a recent study from industry leaders for Fiscal Year 2020 – even as the state and world economy was ravaged by the COVID-19 heath crisis.

Energy companies can expect an uncertain path in 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic has altered expectations for the near future.