Disposal Well Government Pipeline 
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). Venture capital money flowed in.
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.
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