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Produced Water Treatment: From Reuse to What's Next
The Water Exchange
In this episode of The Water Exchange, Rick McCurdy, vice president of innovation and sustainability, and Aaron Horn, vice president of infrastructure for New Mexico, explain how treatment and logistics give produced water options: back into completions as recycled water, out to other uses such as cooling, and into mineral extraction, with disposal as the backstop.
They trace recycling from early projects in the Woodford Shale to fracs that now run on 100% recycled produced water, explain why bacteria is the daily challenge in recycling for completions, and discuss where salt becomes the real hurdle: beneficial reuse. Along the way, they cover disposal capacity in the Permian Basin, pilots in desalination and irrigation, the link between water, data centers, and minerals, and the frac chemistry that made recycling possible.
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