Reading Time: 5 minutes Take 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….

Reading Time: 2 minutes As a busy 2022 wound down, I finally had time to read some of the more interesting ‘things to watch for in 2023’ thought pieces sitting in my inbox. Continued capital discipline as the key indicator of good governance; seismicity; China-India-Russia in the global crude market; ESG is not dead, just changing…

Reading Time: 2 minutes B3 Insight’s comprehensive water data offering for Wyoming is a unique, first of its kind dataset and integrates data for injection wells, production sites, water rights and land parcels in addition to many water management layers…

Reading Time: 6 minutes A 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 minutes We 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 minutes The 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 minutes The 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 minutes The 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 minutes Produced Water Needs to be Managed Produced water management in the Permian Basin (Permian) is largely reliant upon two main strategies: 1) disposal or 2)