Oil & Gas 360º

JUNE 10, 2025

(Oil Price) – As if WTI oil prices in the low $60s per barrel aren’t enough to slow production growth at America’s top producing shale basin, the Permian, new guidelines for permitting saltwater disposal wells could raise the costs for operators, especially smaller producers with limited resources.

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Disposal Well Oil E&P Basin 130

Producer's Edge

APRIL 22, 2025

For every barrel of oil extracted in the Permian Basin, one report estimates that operators typically generate between 4-10 barrels of produced water—resulting in an estimated 3.9 billion barrels of produced water annually in Texas alone.   Basic Energy Services, LP v. PPC Energy LLP , No. —El Paso Dec.

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Disposal Well Operator Exploration and Production Casing 45

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

APRIL 14, 2025

This leads to a bifurcated situation: what is the sustainability of current methodologies for disposal, and what are the infrastructures and processes in place to take a product once regarded as waste and turn it into an asset? The Permian Basin alone produces approximately 15 millions of barrels of water a day.

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Basin Exploration and Production Barrel Disposal Well 96