Oilfield Water Connection has been granted permission by Wells Fargo analyst Michael Blum to share with our readers this 22-page deep dive industry note sent to his institutional investor clients several weeks ago. It's a great read with plenty of perspective and graphics on the emerging water midstream sector...

Check out the who's who of oilfield water on stage and gathered at the Houston Petroleum Club on June 21, 2019 at the Oilfield Water Connection's inaugural event...

Gauri Potdar, senior vice president of strategy and analytics at H2O Midstream, said that building water midstream for the long term will require further discussions between companies and stakeholders to create the flexibility that allows for different uses of the water, wrote Stephen Whitfield...

Caroline Evans writes: "While a number of water-focused players have already built out a number of pipelines, disposal wells, recycling projects and other facilities to provide water solutions to operators, more infrastructure will be needed, experts said at the Oilfield Water Finance conference in Houston..."

At the end of our first event, attendees enjoyed networking and drinks while some classic water jams played in the background. We've made the reception playlist available on Spotify (please use the "read more" link below to access with your phone or desktop). From Neil Young to the Doobie Brothers to Willie - we hope you enjoy these water classics on your next drive into the field or the office...

The inaugural Oilfield Water Connection event delivered a corporate finance focused agenda at a time of elevated financial engineering activity in this sector. For example, WaterBridge’s deal-packed news release last week disclosed the consummation of multiple transactions (debt financing and M&A) as well as the withdrawal of their confidential IPO filing...

WaterBridge announced last week the closing of significant transactions that provide additional expansion capital and operational scale in the Southern Delaware Basin...

Solaris Water negotiated an increase in the size of their revolving credit facility to $350 million from $250 million. The expanded facility will be used for general corporate purposes and to support Solaris Water’s continued growth initiatives in the Permian Basin...

An interesting position opened this week at CarboNet with a big title. The company wrote on its website: "The Water Czar is a unique role that blends strategy, thought leadership, and market advocacy...."

Cory Hall, CEO, said: "I’m very proud to announce Aqua Terra is strategically growing recently securing over 30,000 acres to develop water management systems throughout the Midland Basin. We are now looking for a Houston based VP of Project Development...."

For the first time, Infill Thinking research team broke their quarterly "top ten" post up into two categories: i) frac supply chain and ii) oilfield water management as both coverage universes now have a steady stream of original pieces from this market intelligence platform...

Lindale Pipeline LLC has sued Statoil (now Equinor), claiming it is owed at least $4mm by the operator per a June 2011 contract...

"We hope to have a site within a 1-hour drive of every rig in the Permian Basin within the next two years..."

Key quote in this story: "Oxy is rumored to be marketing some of Anadarko’s stake in its pipelines business, Western Midstream Partners LP, which would let it realize some cash and deconsolidate the subsidiary’s debt."

A report that Occidental Petroleum’s corporate jet traveled to the Hague, one of Shell’s two home towns, has sparked a fresh flare-up of speculation regarding its proposed acquisition of Anadarko, CNBC reports, citing an unnamed source....

Catapult Environmental announced the opening of the Berland Complex, its third water management facility, southwest of Fox Creek, Alberta. The company also changed their name to Catapult Water Midstream, demonstrating the company's commitment to build a fully connected pipeline network among its complexes and to operators' facilities across the Montney and Duvernay....

Leveraging the combination of industry/field experience from business partners Infinity Resources and Mobile Data, along with River Birch's commitment to leadership in global clean water projects, Quantum Water Services Corp. is focusing on comprehensive wastewater treatment in the oilfield...

Streamline's Valkyrie technology removes H2S from natural gas, produced water, and wastewater. A new partnership with Pearl Energy Investments and Energy Innovation Capital gives Streamline access to capital to fuel expansion of this technology...

While running the traps on our go-to list of oilfield water buzzwords, we couldn’t help but notice the positive sentiment with which the industry is discussing the water issue....

“Water is a big piece of their lifting costs,” a Bosque Systems executive said. “If we can help an operator figure out where to get the water, how to treat it more efficiently and how to best use it to optimize a producing well on the front end, that is what is real sticky for us with the operators.”

A new loan facilitated the acquisition of Bullet Energy Services, LLC, an established energy service company focusing on salt water disposal, rig work, and transportation operations. With over 65 years of combined experience in a broad range of industries including real estate development, oilfield services, logistics, and commercial trucking, co-owners, Ron Fraze, James Lemons, and Michael Lemons, are executing their plan to consolidate multiple salt water disposal sites, where they expect to capitalize on economies of scale and improved operational efficiency....

Blackbuck provides E&P companies with a one-stop shop for all things water including transfer, treatment, storage and disposal.

SMG has closed the previously announced acquisition of Trinity. In the Completions market segment, SMG's frac water management division, know as Momentum Water Transfer, focuses in frac water management...