Reading Time: 6 minutesA 5.4M earthquake was recorded in Reeves County on November 16, 23 miles southeast of Mentone, TX, within the North Culberson-Reeves 4.5km Seismicity Response Area (SRA) boundary. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) this is the strongest earthquake to occur in Texas since 1995, and is about six miles from the 4.9M event that occurred on March 26, 2020…

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are days away from the release of our data set for Wyoming – the first of its kind. In Wyoming, water sourcing is equally or in some cases more important than produced water disposal options…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe last few months have been a whirlwind – I haven’t spent this much time on the road in years and it’s been great. I’ve been able to spend time with clients and prospective customers at their offices, conferences, etc…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Texas Produced Water Consortium (TXPWC) recently released a report to the Texas legislature on the beneficial reuse of produced water. It is our opinion at B3 Insight that the report is a good step forward, but the Consortium…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Houston Chronicle recently published an article discussing the rapid growth of mobile sand mines in the Permian Basin. As operators look for ways to further cut costs and reduce their environmental footprint…

Reading Time: 5 minutesProduced Water Needs to be Managed Produced water management in the Permian Basin (Permian) is largely reliant upon two main strategies: 1) disposal or 2)

Reading Time: 6 minutesData is in Our DNA A couple of years ago, I managed a consulting project with a young analyst on our team. The project objective

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe United States’ top two oil producing basins seem worlds apart. At the time of writing, an April blizzard was howling through Williston, North Dakota,

Reading Time: 9 minutesBy Kylie Wright In the 19th and early 20th centuries, agriculture largely relied upon nitrogen fertilizer sourced from bird guano collected from “guano islands.1 ”