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Innovating Water Management in Louisiana: Introducing B3 Insight’s Louisiana Dataset

Reading Time: 3 minutesAre you ready to dive into the murky waters of Louisiana’s unique energy landscape? Effective water management is a critical component to the long-term viability of oil and gas operations, whether participating as an exploration and production (E&P) operator, an oilfield service company, or midstream service provider. This is particularly true in Louisiana, where complex data access…

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Are We Here for a Good Time…. and a Long Time?

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is a dilemma that must be addressed as we enter a new inning for the water management business. We operate in an industry now predicated on immediate to short-term returns on capital, yet the water issues facing the industry may dictate capital expenditures that require a longer-term perspective…

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The Permian Pressure Cooker: Shallow Injection Interval Pressure and the Produced Water Squeeze

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 2011, Oklahoma shook from the largest recorded earthquake at the time, a magnitude 5.7 event east of Oklahoma City. The event was one of many in a series of induced seismicity episodes inflicting this area of the state. The culprit – produced water injection into the Arbuckle formation. The Arbuckle formation, a Cambrian-Ordovician aged carbonate group, has significant porosity…

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The Rising Cost of Pore Space Congestion

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs I’m sitting down to write this, watching snow fall over my family’s cattle operation in southwest Montana (my deadline for this post is a great excuse for why I ‘can’t’ go out in the storm to move cows). This winter season has been a rough one for ranchers in the West. First no snow, no moisture, then way too much. The result: huge concerns about…

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Delaware Basin Interstate Water – Industry Musings on Cross Border Water Logistics

Reading Time: 5 minutesTake a drive on U.S. Highway 285 southeast from Carlsbad, N.M., heading to Pecos in West Texas and you’ll be driving atop a portion of the largest proven oil reserves in the United States. Along the drive, much of the scenery will look the same. Drilling rigs are numerous and tower high above thinly rooted desert shrubs. Above-ground pipeline and power line easements….

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