A centralized water gathering and distribution system in the China Draw area of the Delaware Basin

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced in July that the DSL may warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act and initiated a year-long status review. And there are still a few days left to comment on the new conservation agreement. That’s the headline news, but that’s not all… Beneath the headlines....

By the end of the third quarter, most U.S. oil producers plan to restore nearly all of the production shut down during the oil crash, according to a new report.

Oil futures remained in a holding pattern Tuesday as traders looked ahead to data on U.S. crude supplies and a meeting by an OPEC+ panel charged with monitoring the effect of production cuts by major producers.

Rig count remains under pressure, slipping AGAIN this week. Down in 24 out of the past 25 weeks, rig count now threatens to move down into the 220s – a surreal and abysmally low range that cannot support even the currently low frac crew count in the medium term (the frac crews going back to work are burning DUCs in the absence of sufficient drilling to spud frac inventory to feed them). Here are two ways to look at this in historical context...

Did you know that 27 active SWDs in the Delaware Basin increased permitted injection volumes over the last six months? They gained an average of ~65% more volume through successful demonstrations of new injection rates not exceeding the fracture gradient.

Houston pipeline operator Kinder Morgan moved forward on a controversial natural gas pipeline through the Texas Hill Country the same day that legendary musicians Willie Nelson and Paul Simon issued a public plea for the company to halt the project....

After a pipeline drilling mishap in March that led to a spill of tens of thousands of gallons of slurry into an underground aquifer in Blanco County, muddying nearby wells, the CEO of a natural gas pipeline company now says he is rerouting the pipeline around — rather than under — the Blanco River.

Here’s what we learned about counterparty exposure from this “repeat restructuring” E&P’s latest bankruptcy disclosure.

The number of hydraulic fracturing crews returning to work inched upward in July with the Permian Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico accounting for most of the growth.

A proposal to repurpose a docking facility near Marietta, Ohio, to allow for the barging of oil and gas drilling waste on the Ohio River is drawing concern from environmental groups and local residents...

Upstream companies' budget cut and the completions activity weakness will not allow any quick turnaround. The Water Logistics segment margin was steady in Q2, while increased volume in Q3 can pave the way for a better result.

"TPA is also a biodegradable way of treating oilfield water to prevent pipes from plugging with mineral scale. Our sales into this market are well-established and normally grow steadily but slowly. A simple explanation of TPA's effect is that it prevents the scaling out of minerals that are part of the water fraction of oil as it exits the rock formation. Scale must be prevented to keep the oil recovery pipes from clogging."

Western Midstream Partners performed better than expected in 2Q and raised guidance for the year. Throughput is expected to decline in the second half of the year but stabilize as already drilled but uncompleted wells come on line by year-end...

"Our vision is to find new ways to deliver critical resources from energy delivery to clean and sustainable water, in a way that enhances our environmental footprint and offers new commercially sound solutions to the market."

Oil pollution in Syria has been a growing concern since the 2011 onset of a civil war that has taken a toll on oil infrastructure and seen rival powers compete over control of key hydrocarbon fields