Produced Water Innovations Can Become Scarcity Game-Changers
Produced water has become oil and gas production’s largest waste stream. In North America’s most prolific region, the Permian Basin, disposal continues to be the destination for the lion’s share of produced water.
Thanks partly to improvements in automation and remote monitoring capabilities, the footprint and costs associated with managing produced water continue to fall. Today, it is frequently more economic to recycle produced water in completions than to send it to a saltwater disposal well.
In this article, Jon Malone, Director of Business Development at TETRA Technologies, discusses the challenges of disposing of produced water from oil and gas production.
