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. Most of this water goes back into the producing formations via injection wells as part of IOR and EOR programs to get more production from ageing fields. There are options to disposing of excess PW in SWDs.

Midstream

Producer's Edge

APRIL 22, 2025

While the industry continues to explore recycling technologies and beneficial reuse applications, economic and technical barriers have limited widespread adoption. Consequently, over 80% of Texas produced water still finds its way into saltwater disposal wells—a critical infrastructure network that enables continued production.

Disposal Well

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? Through normal drilling, completions, and production, the numbers are staggering. Not even on eBay.

Basin