Water management
The startup company’s Midland Basin demonstration plant, located in the Permian Basin, takes a major step toward commercialization by proving its direct lithium extraction technology can refine battery-grade lithium carbonate from produced water under multiple 24/7 production cycles.
This paper presents an approach to the identification, selection, and implementation of initiatives for sustainable water management, withdrawal reduction, and water valorization.
Disposal wells remain the lowest-cost solution for produced water, but concerns over seismicity and long-term sustainability are accelerating interest in alternatives.
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This case history explores a multiwell sectional development in the Delaware Basin by a small operator who reduced drilling and completion costs, along with lease operating expenses, by turning undesirable produced water into an asset. -
A produced-water management framework is presented, forming part of an upstream-effluent management policy, to address the minimization and ultimate elimination of treated and untreated produced-water discharge.
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As the oil and gas industry evolves to become more socially responsible with using natural resources such as water, economics constraints are an ever-present concern. The three highlighted papers share different approaches regarding how produced water could be managed economically.
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This paper is the second of a two-part series. It covers facilities problems caused by iron, injectivity problems caused by iron, and the mitigation of colloidal iron-related problems.
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The debate over whether to again allow briny waste water pumped from conventional oil and gas wells to be spread on Pennsylvania’s dirt roads has become as salty and charged as the material itself.
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Lagoon becomes a multibasin player in water management while WES locks down assets that could drive future deals.
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A review of the properties of iron compounds and their impact in shale produced water treatment with an emphasis on their colloidal forms. A wide range of problems is associated with these compounds in produced water including emulsion stabilization, oil-coated solids, pad formation in separators, pipeline solids, and plugging of water disposal formations.
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The pureplay water midstream company bought the produced water infrastructure associated with Colgate’s purchase of Occidental acreage in June.
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Water Research Australia says the project aims to “address the challenge of water scarcity in the process of hydrogen production.”
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Using a large-sample statistical approach based on publicly available data, the authors of a recent study investigated the potential impact of unconventional oil and gas development on surface water quality.
