1. Produced Water: Boiling Down
The Issues
Sebree & Tintera, LLC.
1611 West Ave,
Austin, Texas 78701
Suite 300
John Tintera P.G. #325
johnjamestintera@gmail.com
2. Conundrum: A paradoxical,
insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma
How do you determine the Cost vs.
Benefit ...
When the Perception and Facts are in
dispute?
3. Perception vs Fact
Let’s look at the Perception, or
Conventional Wisdom of the main
three groups regarding PW:
Public
Industry
Regulators
12. Texas Production
400,000,000 BO per year
8 TCF Gas per year
450,000 existing wellbores
Over 1,000,000 wells drilled since early
1900’s.
20,000 directional wells hydrofractured
No “proven” groundwater
contamination from hydrofracturing
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18. PW: The Issues & Arguments
Science – Legal - Policy
Hydrologic Cycle/Climate Change
Infrastructure
Seismic Risk
Sinkholes and subsidence
Cleanup/Toxicity
Eminent Domain
State vs. Federal vs. Local Authority
RCRA and the Regulatory Framework
Surface Estate vs. Mineral Ownership
Over -regulation vs. Under- regulation
Politics
19. Hydrologic Cycle
Perception: once fresh water is converted to frac fluid, flowed back as produced water,
and disposed of, it is gone forever.
23. Sinkholes and Subsidence
perception: removing fluids like produced water from under the
ground causes subsidence, pumping fluids back underground
causes sinkholes
31. 1 + 2 = 3
If you don’t solve #1 (surface vs. mineral, or “who
benefits?”),
And you can’t solve #2 (the “over-under” of good
regulation),
You get problem #3 (political problems that require a
political solution).
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34. Produced Water: Boiling Down
The Issues
Sebree & Tintera, LLC.
1611 West Ave,
Austin, Texas 78701
Suite 300
John Tintera P.G. #325
johnjamestintera@gmail.com