Fracking Waste Gets a Second Look to Ease Looming West Texas Water Shortage

Written and first published by Dylan Baddour, Texas Correspondent for Inside Climate News. Aquifers beneath the Permian Basin are slowly running out. Recycling “produced water” should help to slow the decline. Fracked wells in West Texas don’t just produce petroleum. Much more than anything else, they spit up salty, mucky water. Typically, companies have discarded […]
Where Do You See The Industry of Recycling Going In The Next 5-10 Years, and Beyond?
XRI’s COO, Dr. Chris Harich, answers this industry of recycling question during his panel appearance at the 2022 Oilfield Water Markets Conference. TRANSCRIPTION: Wells in the Permian Basin over the next five years…we’re gonna go up to about 33,500 wells that we drill between now and 2025. With that, we’re gonna need about 20 billion barrels […]
Recycling Produced Water in Completed Development Areas

An operator increases produced water recycling and reduces produced water injection via water midstream infrastructure in Midland County. This article first appeared in the E&P newsletter. The increasing scrutiny on induced seismicity and the desire to reduce groundwater consumption has led to increasing rates of produced water recycling in the Permian Basin among E&P operators. However, once an […]