Disposal Well Energy Transportation 
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.
RBN Energy
JULY 30, 2025
Through the early years of the Shale Era, produced water gathering systems in the Permian were mostly small, simple and focused solely on transporting the salty, petroleum- and mineral-tainted water emerging from wells to nearby saltwater disposal wells.
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Oilfield Technology
JUNE 27, 2025
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. Historically, excess PW not needed for sweeping producing formations has been disposed of in Class II Saltwater Disposal wells (SWD).
Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine
JULY 14, 2025
Protecting our energy resources is essential to the Permian Basin and the state as a whole,” declared Sparks, who announced industry crime as one of his legislative priorities and filed three packaged bills. These inspections allow for sampling and forensic analysis. 1806 was signed by the governor and will go into effect on Sept.
Producer's Edge
APRIL 22, 2025
Consequently, over 80% of Texas produced water still finds its way into saltwater disposal wells—a critical infrastructure network that enables continued production. Case Study: When a Disposal Well Flooded a Producing Oil Well A particularly instructive case study emerges in the recent decision of Basic Energy Services v.
The Energy Law
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
By Jillian Marullo Senate Bill 514, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes saltwater pipeline operators in Texas “to install, maintain, and operate” saltwater pipelines “through, under, along, across, or over a public road” in order to transport the wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing operations to disposal sites.
Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine
MAY 1, 2025
1150 had passed the Senate and was in the House Energy Resources Committee. As of press time, this bill had passed the Senate and was in the House Energy Resources Committee. As of press time, this bill had passed the Senate and was in the House Energy Resources Committee. As of press time, S.B. Oilfield Theft Package Sen.
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