produced water

The justices ruled Friday that the company holding the oil and gas lease also lays claim to the produced water. The ruling comes as more companies are seeking to turn a profit on what has long been considered a vexing waste stream.

This article presents a results-driven case study from an ongoing collaboration between a midstream oil and gas company and Neuralix Inc.

The Texas Railroad Commission has tightened its guidelines on the permitting of disposal wells in the Permian Basin.

Interfacial tension keeps oil and water separate by resisting the mixing of their molecules at the surface. Learn how industry experts measure this force to diagnose fluid behavior.

The agency said it wants to modernize the rules and expand the potential uses for produced water.

This article is the second of a two-part series on produced-water management in the Gulf of Mexico and covers four themes: equipment, process configuration, operations, and effluent quality.

Few things are more essential to the now global hydraulic fracturing revolution than access to fresh water, yet this dependency use has raised environmental concerns and operational challenges.

This work investigates a cost-effective and sustainable alternative to acidification for sheen control.

The paper aims to address the challenges and opportunities in managing produced water and its contaminants in the petroleum industry.

This first of a two-part series provides guidelines for designing and operating advanced produced-water systems on offshore platforms, covering fluid characterization, chemical treatment, equipment, process configuration, operations, and effluent quality.