Water management
This paper explores the development of direct-lithium-extraction technologies designed to recover lithium from unconventional feedstocks.
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.
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.
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Acknowledging the necessity to better understand treatment needs, economic challenges, and public health and environmental risks of industry’s waste water, the Texas Legislature recently passed Senate Bill 601, establishing a Texas Produced Water Consortium. -
In the original grant application for renewable desalination, the startup mentioned solar thermal, but Gary Katz had originally thought industrial waste heat energy would be the ideal source. But, as he noted ruefully, “As a startup, you have to pivot to what the market will support."
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Added assets raise its Delaware Basin daily disposal capacity to more than half a million barrels.
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Expansion of operations in the Permian Basin has spawned a midstream water segment – one that uses data and analysis to enhance efficiency as well as manage produced water volumes.
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Shell and Tomson Technologies completed field trials in the Gulf of Mexico using new nanoparticle-enabled phosphonate and polymer inhibitors that improve the treatment lifetime of scale squeezes.
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While it is one of the top producers of liquid hydrocarbons in the US, New Mexico is also among the driest. The issue has culminated in a restriction on new freshwater leases issued by the state and a push for more recycling of produced water.
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The last growing market of US land services, water disposal, is set for an all-time high in the Permian.
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The complete paper focuses on sources of produced water from conventional and unconventional onshore oil and gas operations and addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with reusing the produced water.
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A global trend has developed toward the application of risk-based assessment (RBA) techniques for managing environmental risks and considering potential effects of produced-water (PW) discharge.
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Sustainable water management should encompass current management of water resources as well as its potential effect on the future. Sustainable water management in oil and gas is a journey that will need approaches from many perspectives.
