Water management
This paper explores the development of direct-lithium-extraction technologies designed to recover lithium from unconventional feedstocks.
This paper reviews existing literature, the operator’s records, service-company data, and simulation studies to assess the risk of using seawater in carbonate acidizing.
This guest editorial from the Center for Injection and Seismicity Research (CISR) at The University of Texas at Austin details the emerging risks posed by injection in Texas and what steps might be taken to mitigate them.
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Nature-based solutions, such as constructed wetlands, have gained increasing interest over the past decade as a sustainable option for wastewater treatment in the domestic, industrial, and oil and gas sectors, with a growing number of examples now existing throughout the UAE, Oman, and other oil-producing regions.
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Permian Basin oil wells produce a lot of water. Much of it is injected into disposal zones above and below the basin’s primary oil- and gas-producing zone. When water is injected into these disposal zones, the pressure increases, mainly because no fluid is concurrently removed. Is this increase in pressure a concern? The data would suggest yes.
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Produced water is a brew of salt, chemicals, and minerals that oil companies have always had to deal with. Landowners had no problem with that arrangement until they could see ways to make some money from it.
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Diamondback Energy has agreed to spin off its water operations. Now, who’s next?
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This paper presents a family of machine-learning-based reduced-order models trained on rigorous first-principle thermodynamic simulation results to extract physicochemical properties.
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The Court of Appeals for the Eighth District of Texas ruled that the mineral lessee under an oil and gas lease owns the water extracted, not the surface property owner.
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Sustaining two of the UAE’s biggest onshore fields will require hundreds of kilometers of new pipelines that are to be powered using 100% renewable energy.
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Select Water Solutions will focus on water management and added assets in the Permian Basin.
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The recent Permian Basin earthquakes in Texas are keeping producers, regulators, and service providers busy in their quest to reduce the intensity and frequency of the induced seismic events.
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A town in the oil industry’s shadow grapples with health fears as the state fails to limit companies’ use of fresh water.