Statewide leaders in Wyoming agriculture recently launched an initiative to clean oilfield wastewater for use in arid western states, hoping to reduce the region’s carbon footprint and improve the lives of ranchers and farmers...

About 2.5 billion gallons of produced water, a byproduct from the oil refinery and extraction process, is generated each day in the United States. Handling that water is...

Oilfield water management sits at the cusp of a watershed moment, with the competitive landscape now rapidly evolving around big challenges and emerging opportunities...

The two companies completed a multi-phased study addressing the challenges associated with produced water, backed by extensive data analysis and the engagement of industry participant stakeholders. Volume I of the four-part study will be available May 2019...

Produced water, as the industry calls it, is a noxious mix, a hypersaline brine that includes chemicals used during fracking and trace minerals and radioactive elements that are naturally present at depth...

Colorado School of Mines celebrated today the grand opening of a new 10,000-square-foot research facility in Denver that will pave the way for greater collaboration with industry, government and academia to tackle one of the biggest challenges facing society today – access to clean water...

Michigan State University will share almost $3 million to develop a freshwater recovery system to extract clean irrigation water from hydraulic fracturing wastewater. The reclaimed water could help dry western states that need water for crops and livestock...

Low Pressure Nano Reactor Technology is an environmentally friendly technology that will be used as an addition to existing processes in the produced and frac water treatment in the oil and gas industry...

Kendra II, LLC, a water transportation, management and disposal provider, and De Nora, a leading designer of safe, innovative, and sustainable water disinfection and oxidation, filtration and electrochlorination solutions, are nearing completion of a Marcellus produced water recycling facility...

Planning, developing, and executing an efficient and profitable water plan, whether for a two-well pad or a multiple-well mega pad can be a challenge to anyone in the oil and gas industry...

New Mexico lawmakers moved to clarify the legal status of the salty, chemical-laden water that gushes from wells in larger volumes than even the oil that is the object of the hunt...

The bill will restore the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD) Oil Conservation Division’s (OCD), authority to enforce the state’s oil and gas protections, while also making key clarifications and improvements to the regulation of produced water in New Mexico...

"The produced water bill, I think, is going to go down as one of the greatest environmental accomplishments to come out of the state legislature of New Mexico," Brian Egolf said...

Midland Mayor Jerry Morales said oil industry companies are “going under the Ogallala” aquifer and pulling out more brackish water for their use...

A pipeline leak caused 500 barrels, or 21,000 gallons, of brine to spill Saturday at an oil and gas site in Mountrail County, according to the North Dakota Oil and Gas Division...

Residents downstream of Boysen Reservoir — where state officials want to OK the discharge of tons of oilfield pollutants — say they weren’t given adequate notice and time to comment on the plan...

Plenty of clean fresh water is required to wash and produce commercial frac sand (one rule of thumb we’ve heard tossed around is 135mm gallons per year for every MMTPA of nameplate capacity, although make-up requirements vary around plant designs)...

With the exception of the Pecos River (which may more accurately be referred to as “Pecos Creek”), there is very little surface water in the region West Texas frac sand miners call home, and any that does exist is already allocated to other users...

In a slight change in topic, this is going to be a more general article around why I believe water treatment technologies are so critical...

A new technology from Hexion aims to help operators significantly reduce their produced water volumes from tight oil and gas wells, without curbing the flow of hydrocarbons...

Endless mountains tower over the arid Permian Basin. Mountains almost a mile high. Mountains of water. A football field covered with a foot of water is about an acre foot, a standard measure of water reservoir capacity...

If you haven't seen it yet, this video is worth a watch...