Opinion: Developing a Practical Produced Water Recycle Standard

By adopting a standard, the industry will have commoditized treated produced water, and this will incentivize competition and unleash the free market to drive better solutions.

Frac Fluids: Improving Sustainability of Fracturing Operations by Reducing Strain on Freshwater Resources 

Surfactants enhance the performance of freshwater friction reducers in recycled water for oilfield applications.

Environmentally Sustainable Oilfield Water Management

Certain water management practices and technologies can assist with reaching ESG goals.

Recycling Produced Water in Completed Development Areas

An operator increases produced water recycling and reduces produced water injection via water midstream infrastructure in Midland County.

Oil and Gas Investor: Water Management Special Section

For an industry less than a decade into its development, water management has emerged as a crucial component of upstream oil and gas development.

B3 Insight Launches New Oilfield Water ESG Council

Founding Members of the council include EagleClaw Midstream, Pioneer Natural Resources and H2O Midstream, among others.

NGL Energy Partners Completes Initial Delaware Basin Wastewater Recycling Project

The initial project, which began in late May, supported a NGL customers’ highly efficient simultaneous fracturing, or simul-frac, completion activities in New Mexico’s Lea County within the northern Delaware Basin.

Soil and Water Do Mix in 21st Century Oil Industry

John Robitaille, CEO of Encore Green Environmental, explains how partnering with agriculture to economically treat produced water could improve the carbon footprint of oil and gas producers.

Texas Tech Heads Collaboration to Study Impact, Technology for Recycling Produced Water

The Texas Produced Water Consortium will bring together industry, stakeholders and university expertise to grow understanding and formulate research for produced water management in Texas.

Encore Green Environmental Technologies & Licensing Acquires XRI/Fountain Quail Assets

The purchase of Fountain Quail water treatment technology and equipment formerly known as NOMAD adds a proven desalination system, Encore Green Environmental Technologies & Licensing said.