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.

Disposal Well

Oilfield Technology

JUNE 27, 2025

Every year billions of barrels of Produced Water (PW) are generated from oil and gas production around the world. In some mature fields, 10 barrels of water are generated for every barrel of oil produced. In recent years these higher disposal volumes have led to seismic events in several states.

Midstream

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. —El Paso Dec. 27, 2024, no pet. Basic filed this appeal.

Disposal Well

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

MAY 1, 2025

Texas has the potential to unlock millions of barrels of safe, treated produced water, but we must diligently build the legal frameworks that incentivize operators to invest private capital in these initiatives. As of press time, this bill had passed the Senate and was in the House Energy Resources Committee.

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