Development of a Large Scale Water Recycling Program for the Delaware Basin, New Mexico

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Nichols ◽  
Jeff Sawyer ◽  
Josh Bruening ◽  
Brent Halldorson ◽  
Kaarthic Madhavan
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Water Recycling ◽  
Delaware Basin

Turning Produced Water into an Asset: A Delaware Basin Case History

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin Aro ◽  
Steven Fowler
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Horizontal Well ◽  
Produced Water ◽  
Water Recycling ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Delaware Basin ◽  
Well Completion ◽  
Water Handling ◽  
West Texas

Abstract The Delaware Basin encompasses 6.4 million acres throughout Southeastern New Mexico and West Texas. With large players such as ExxonMobil, Shell or Oxy typically grabbing headlines, it's easy to forget the multitude of smaller public and private E&P operators who exist in and around the acreage positions of the aforementioned companies. Regardless of the size of the acreage holding, a consistent theme is that a typical horizontal well drilled and completed (D&C) will yield water cuts of 60-90% at any given period in its productive lifespan. Saltwater production, handling and disposal (SWD) is a drag on lease operating expenses (LOE). SWD costs via trucking, pipeline, or on-lease SWD wells can range between $0.50-$3.00/bbl. As existing infrastructure is exhausted, water handling costs have been projected to rise to over $5.00/bbl. Additionally, restricted access to SWD could cause production curtailments and thus impacting operators beyond direct LOE.1 Well completion operations are impacted by freshwater procurement costs starting around $0.75/bbl. Regardless of final frac design, water consumption during fracturing operations typically exceeds 500,000 bbls or $375,000 per well. Significant value exists for recycling produced water via an on-lease pit and utilizing it for future frac operations. The produced water turns into an asset if the operator can efficiently manage to substitute higher and higher percentages of freshwater with produced water. Many smaller operators (defined as less than 50,000 acres) may view produced water recycling as an operation best left to large E&P's with their massive capital budgets and contiguous acreage. Fortunately, even a 5 well, section development plan can yield returns from an on-lease produced water recycling program.

scholarly journals Prior oil and gas production can limit the occurrence of injection-induced seismicity: A case study in the Delaware Basin of western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, USA

Geology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Z. Dvory ◽  
Mark D. Zoback
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Pore Pressure ◽  
Induced Seismicity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Delaware Basin ◽  
Stress Changes

We demonstrate that pore pressure and stress changes resulting from several decades of oil and gas production significantly affect the likelihood of injection-related induced seismicity. We illustrate this process in the Delaware Basin (western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, USA), in which hydraulic fracturing and waste-water injection have been inducing numerous earthquakes in the southernmost part of the basin where there has been no prior oil and gas production from the formations in which the earthquakes are now occurring. In the seismically quiescent part of the basin, we show that pore-pressure and poroelastic-stress changes associated with prior oil and gas production make induced seismicity less likely. The findings of this study have important implications for the feasibility of large-scale carbon storage in depleted oil and gas reservoirs.

Water recycling at the Millennium Dome

2001 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 287-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Hills ◽  
A. Smith ◽  
P. Hardy ◽  
R. Birks
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Water Recycling ◽  
Water Usage ◽  
Customer Perception ◽  
Recycling System ◽  
Optimum Configuration ◽  
Treatment Technologies ◽  
System Information ◽  
System Water

Thames Water is working with the New Millennium Experience Company to provide a water recycling system for the Millennium Dome which will supply 500m3/d of reclaimed water for WC and urinal flushing. The system will treat water from three sources:rainwater - from the Dome roofgreywater - from handbasins in the toilet blocksgroundwater - from beneath the Dome site The treatment technologies will range from “natural” reedbeds for the rainwater, to more sophisticated options, including biological aerated filters and membranes for the greywater and groundwater. Pilot scale trials were used to design the optimum configuration. In addition to the recycling system, water efficient devices will be installed in three of the core toilet blocks as part of a programme of research into the effectiveness of conservation measures. Data on water usage and customer behaviour will be collected via a comprehensive metering system. Information from the Dome project on the economics and efficiency of on-site recycling at large scale and data on water efficient devices, customer perception and behaviour will be of great value to the water industry. For Thames Water, the project provides vital input to the development of future water resource strategies.

scholarly journals NM GRADS: Lessons Learned from Implementing a School-Based Program for Young Parents Across New Mexico

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (S2) ◽  
pp. 163-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Harper ◽  
Dean Hopper ◽  
Betsy Keating ◽  
Jessica Harding
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
District Leaders ◽  
Program Administrators ◽  
School Based ◽  
Young Fathers ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Parenting Students

Abstract Purpose The New Mexico Graduation Reality and Dual-role Skills (GRADS) program provides services for expectant and parenting students at high schools. The GRADS program has operated since 1989, serving more than 17,000 youth. This study summarizes the GRADS program model and program administrators’ lessons learned from implementing this comprehensive, large-scale program. Description The GRADS program is a multicomponent intervention that can include a classroom intervention, case management, linkages to child care and health care, and support for young fathers. The program aims to support expectant and parenting youth in finishing high school, delaying a repeat pregnancy, promoting health outcomes for their children, and preparing for college and career. This study presents program administrators’ lessons learned to increase understanding of how to implement a statewide program to support expectant and parenting students. Assessment During the 2010–2017 school years, the GRADS program operated in 26–31 sites each year, serving a total of 2691 parenting youth. Program administrators identified lessons learned from implementing the GRADS program during that period of expansion, including allowing variation across sites based on resources and needs, providing centralized implementation support, fostering buy-in from school and district leaders, and collecting consistent data to better understand participant outcomes. Conclusions Although not based on a rigorous impact or implementation study, this article provides lessons learned from a statewide, school-based program that may be a promising way to serve a large number of expectant and parenting youth and help them overcome challenges for completing high school.

Radiometric Dating of Ochoan (Permian) Evaporites, Wipp Site, Delaware Basin, New Mexico, Usa

1986 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas G. Brookins ◽  
Steven J. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Clay Minerals ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Radiometric Dating ◽  
Delaware Basin ◽  
Geochemical Study ◽  
Sulfate Salts ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Evaporite Minerals

AbstractWe have attempted radiometric dating of halide-sulfate salts and clay minerals from the Delaware Basin, New Mexico, USA, as part of geochemical study of the stability of the evaporite sequence at the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant--a US DOE facility) site. We undertook this dating to determine: (1) primary age of evaporite genesis or time(s) of recrystallization, (2) if previously undated evaporite minerals (leonite, polyhalite, kieserite) give useful data, and (3) if the detrital clay minerals have been radiometrically reset at any time following their incorporation into the evaporite medium. We have shown earlier that polyhalites can indeed be successfully dated by the K-Ar method, and once corrections are applied for admixed halide minerals, dates of 210-230 Ma for the Delaware Basin are obtained. Rb-Sr isochrons from early stage sylvites-polyhalites- anhydrites yield 220 ± 10 Ma, even when some sylvites yield lower K-Ar dates due to l1s of 40Ar*. K-Ar dates on leonites and kieserites are also low due to 40Ar* loss, but their Rb-Sr dates are higher. Detrital clay minerals from the Delaware Basin collectively yield a highly scattered isochron (390 ± 77 Ma), but samples from a local area, such as the WIPP Site, give a much better age of 428 ± 7 Ma. These dates show that the interaction between the clay minerals and the evaporitic brines was insufficient to reset the clay minerals Rb-Sr systematics. In a related study, we note that a dike emplaced into the evaporite at 34 Ma had only very limited effect on the intruded rocks; contact phenomena were all within 2 m of the dike. All of our geochemical (radio-metric and trace element) studies of the WIPP site argue for preservation of the isotopic and chemical integrity of the major minerals for the past 200 Ma.

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