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After compiling the latest frac data, we count roughly 185 fleets now staffed / active up from 95 at the bottom in May....

Sand volumes pumped has the closest correlation to U.S. shale production, including water production...

Waste Management (NYSE: WM) has joined Fortune magazine’s list of ‘World’s Most Admired Companies’ for the third year in a row.

Bennett Resources, owned by Texan company Black Mountain, wants its Valhalla gas prospect in the Kimberley to eventually supply the export market, or the energy-hungry east coast market, potentially via the $5 billion east-west pipeline long-mooted yet still unsupported by governments.

A recent EPA decision will allow Texas to regulate water discharges from oil drilling operations

We firmly believe there will be plenty of demand for hydrocarbons for a long time, but it appears that one big E&P operator is taking no chances to the point that they plan to develop some alternative energy supply themselves. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em?

The Delaware basin has around 45,000 oil and gas wells down in the southeast part of New Mexico - near the towns called Carlsbad and Artesia and not far from Carlsbad Caverns. A map of oil and gas wells drilled and fracked in the past few years makes an impressive sight.

The New Mexico Senate has agreed to take up a bill that would increase penalties for produced water spills by the oil and gas industry.

A Utah-based private investment firm has acquired a majority interest in Pine Island Chemical Solutions, an oil field chemical company with a corporate office in Lafayette.

Exxon’s Darren Woods, Chevron’s Mike Wirth spoke last year about combining their companies in what could be among the largest corporate mergers ever

Companies using standard evaporation systems to deal with high-solids industrial wastewater will be pleased to learn that RWI Enhanced Evaporation’s Apex 2.0 system, the PittBoss™, enhances pond evaporation rates without pumps, filters, or nozzles that clog, or other costly maintenance issues.

Cavitation Technologies announced that the company reopened its Permian Basin operations in mid-January to treat water produced from fracking operations in the basin.

“Oilfield dangers aren’t confined to the drilling pad – many Permian Basin homes have pipes carrying gas, oil and contaminated water running right through their yards.”

A new report released by Earthworks, along with allies VISION California and Center for Biological Diversity, reveals that California, often portrayed by the state’s politicians and national media as the nation’s “green” leader, is actually one of the worst states in the U.S. when it comes to regulating the oil and gas industry’s waste.

Notice there was no question mark in that headline. Pandemic or no pandemic, 2021 is going to be a tough year for the California oil and gas industry. Why? California has one of the most difficult regulatory environments for oil and gas, as demonstrated by what happened in 2020.

Aqua Pulsar is working with a reputed university Petroleum lab to evaluate the performance of an Aqua Pulsar treated produced water brine on a shale rock core samples