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As Reservoir Quality Declines, Water Costs Rise
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhy Higher Oil Prices Don’t Guarantee More Permian Production – Part 2 of 2 By Patrick Patton, VP of Products, B3 Insight In Part 1 of this series, we examined how

B3 Insight Launches InjectIQ: Forecasting Software for Water, Injection Capacity, and Reservoir Pressure
Reading Time: 3 minutesDenver, CO – March 31, 2026 — B3 Insight today announced the launch of InjectIQ, an AI-enabled forecasting software tool designed to model produced water volumes, saltwater disposal capacity,

Permian Economics are Shifting, and Produced Water Is the Variable
Reading Time: 2 minutesDisposal constraints, rising formation pressure, produced water growth, and infrastructure concentration are beginning to influence long-term asset valuation across the basin. “Permitted capacity overstates functional

Rising Oil Prices, Finite Disposal
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhy Higher Oil Prices Don’t Guarantee More Permian Production – Part 1 of 2 By Patrick Patton, VP of Products, B3 Insight Periods of geopolitical

Devon–Coterra: Scale, Water, and the Next Constraint in the Northern Delaware
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat the Merger Signals for Permian Produced Water Management The proposed merger between Devon Energy and Coterra Energy does more than combine acreage and inventory in the northern Delaware Basin. It

Permian Basin SWD Permitting Update: Protests Elevated, Timelines Extend, Basin Trends Diverge
Reading Time: 3 minutesProtests remain elevated, Delaware leads new filings, and permit timelines continue to diverge by basin. Permian saltwater disposal well (SWD) permitting activity remained active through

From Closed Loop to Basin-Scale Architecture: Why Delaware Water Is Moving East
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Patrick Patton, VP of Products, B3 Insight The Delaware Basin is no longer operating as a closed-loop produced water disposal system. It is becoming the

Understanding B3 Insight’s Orphaned Well Risk Score: A Clearer View of Subsurface Risk in Texas
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe long-term integrity of the subsurface is influenced not only by producing wells and active infrastructure, but also by the thousands of orphaned wells, as

One Source. Every Decision. How OilfieldH2O Advanced Decision Confidence in 2025
Reading Time: 3 minutesAcross the Permian and other active basins, water and pressure are now central to operational, regulatory, and capital planning decisions. Disposal availability, formation pressure, seismic
