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It turns out produced water behaves differently in pipelines, and what we know about safely transporting natural gas and oil may need to be tweaked to better manage midstream produced water infrastructure.   The State of North Dakota and the Energy and Environmental Research Center suggests that the application of Computational Pipeline Monitoring (CPM) to anRead more

According to research at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, decades of anthropogenic activities (mining, groundwater extraction, hydrocarbon production), together with naturally occurring settlement due to sediment loading and glacial isostatic adjustments, have destabilized a 4,000-square mile swath of West Texas—leading to an increased rate of sinkhole formation and expansion. Whereas the naturally occurring subsidence onRead more

We are big fans of rapid pipeline adoption for oilfield water handling, and new steel tariffs stand to affect pipeline infrastructure planning and costs – but the jury is still out as to what degree, and whether exemptions may apply. President Trump’s plan to impose a 25% tariff on raw and finished steel products haveRead more

Sometimes last is best! Because our analysis of New Mexico Underground Injection Disposal Well and Formation Health Risk was the last region for us to profile in our Industry Report, we have the benefit of capturing the latest insights through year-end 2017 in our New Mexico chapter. Although the majority of Class II injected wellRead more

David Wethe, energy reporter for Bloomberg News, always does great coverage on oil-patch issues, especially water and environmental topics. In his recent article,  Forget Oil, Water Is New Ticket for Pipeline Growth in Texas, we were cited for our work in midstream analytical space; looking at seismicity impacts, disposal well constraints, and logical pathways for high capacity pipelines –Read more

Thanks for Amanda Brock’s shout-out to CAP Resources on her recent editorial in GWI (June 2017, pg 28).  As always, she does a terrific job of laying out the myriad of facts in a succinct and compelling manner. We’ve been tracking the water treatment market since 2007, and what I find particularly interesting is that atRead more