Wastewater

Researchers have found traces of oil and gas wastewater in surface waters near an injection well in Fayette County, WV, according to the results of a pair of recent studies conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Missouri and Duke University.

Researchers have found traces of oil and gas wastewater in surface waters near an injection well in Fayette County, WV, according to the results of a pair of recent studies conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Missouri and Duke University.

Fairmont Brine Processing LLC, which currently operates an oil and natural gas wastewater treatment facility in Marion County, WV, has closed on a $90 million senior secured credit facility with the investment firm Benefit Street Partners (BSP) LLC to construct additional plants in the Appalachian Basin.

Fairmont Brine Processing LLC, which currently operates an oil and natural gas wastewater treatment facility in Marion County, WV, has closed on a $90 million senior secured credit facility with the investment firm Benefit Street Partners (BSP) LLC to construct additional plants in the Appalachian Basin.

A semi-truck hauling oil and natural gas wastewater through Southeast Ohio left the road and crashed into a field, spilling 5,000 gallons of the fluid into a stream that empties into a drinking water reservoir, state regulators said Thursday.

The oil and gas wastewater management company GreenHunter Resources Inc. and several subsidiaries have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Texas’ Fort Worth Division. GreenHunter, an affiliate of Magnum Hunter Resources Corp., which also filed for bankruptcy protection in December, said it would continue to operate as a debtor-in-possession (DIP) (see Shale Daily, Dec. 15, 2015). The company has filed a motion for the approval of DIP financing of $3.5 million to run its day-to-day operations. But the company said it anticipates selling all of its assets by May 5. The company operates in the Appalachian Basin. It entered the region in 2011 and has become one of its largest brine water disposal businesses.

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) said it is withdrawing a proposal to allow barges to transport wastewater in bulk from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) along the nation’s waterways, in part due to tepid support from the oil and gas industry, but it may revisit the idea in the future.

Although commodity prices have depressed oil and natural gas activity across the shales, Keller, TX-based Fountain Quail Water Management LLC was recently able to secure a commitment for up to $40 million of private equity financing to expand North American operations.

Antero Midstream Partners LP last week filed a permit application with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection to construct a landfill near its proposed 60,000 barrel/day wastewater treatment complex in Doddridge County.