The American oil and gas industry generates a staggering volume of toxic wastewater every year, and the vast majority of it ...

Documents show the industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling's toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn't safe ...

A waterflood pressurizes the reservoir and sweeps oil toward producers by injecting treated water into designated injection wells. It is the workhorse of secondary recovery, extending plateau rates, ...

Coalbed methane (CBM) produced water can be managed as a waste product or put to beneficial use, depending on water quality and quantity, legal and regulatory issues, permitting constraints for ...

A pumpjack and a Yellowjacket Oilfield Services fracking rig sit next to Highway 191 in Midland County. (Odessa American File Photo) The issue of what to do with produced water contaminated by its use ...

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Abilene-based Natura Resources, which won the first federal construction permit for a liquid-fueled molten-salt reactor in ...