The company says extraction could add value to water already moving through its oilfield network.

Western Midstream Partners (NYSE:WES) has commissioned a second large-scale produced-water treatment pilot facility in the Permian Basin. The project is developed with major oil and gas partners and ...

In the early 2000s, the city of Midland detected contaminated well water on its T-Bar Ranch property, which it purchased as a source of drinking water back in 1965. The pollution was eventually traced ...

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Drilling and operating oil and gas wells, especially unconventional wells, generates a significant amount of flowback and produced water that must be managed properly under federal and state ...

Pump jacks like this one in Chevron's Kern River Oil Field generate "produced water" that irrigates close to 100,000 acres of crops in Kern County. Credit: Liza Gross California prohibits farmers from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 24—The Texas Produced Water Consortium (TxPWC) at Texas Tech University has entered into a revolutionary new partnership with ...

With so many smart people working on the oilfield’s produced water dilemma, the answer — or answers — can’t be far away. That was the conclusion of speakers Tuesday at a Produced Water Society seminar ...

The second panel session of the workshop provided insights into technologies for managing flowback and produced waters for potential use. Three 10-minute presentations by the panelists were followed ...

Pump jacks operate next to a vineyard in Kern County, the heart of California's oil industry. Credit: Liza Gross California is heading into its dry season after one of the driest winters on record, ...

Although historically viewed as a waste, produced water that comes to the surface as part of the oil and gas production stream now potentially has value. Produced water can be recycled and reused as ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Flowback and Produced Waters: Opportunities and Challenges for Innovation: Proceedings of a ...