Three datasets
Freshwater for produced water (injections)
Produced water injections (disposal)
Project water generation
Water quality data – not collected at the state level
How much water is used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR)?
Time/Date
Volume
Where? (Well/Pad/Site/County - Lat/Long)
Source of water? (likely not collected)
Datasets
Data primarily captured at the recycling facilities
scanned pdf documents → in environmental bureau (Forms C147 and C148)
doesn’t necessarily capture which wells
produced water out of the recycling facility
Lead in environmental bureau?
Other challenges: Fracking on the fly
C148 *filled out on a monthly basis*
produced water received
other fluid received (usually water used for mixing)
volume discharged for recycling/reuse
FTP site data
available online - GIS tab on OCD website
Can filter by type of wells (EOR, SWD), pool (Devonian, DE Mtn group), volumes, and well
can tabulate how much water goes down for EOR (inject lesser amounts, 500-1000 barrels/day) vs. SWD (20-30K barrels/day)
3000 EOR wells and 800 SWD wells
Internal report: non-transported produced water (evaporated, used on site, etc.)
Reported by Operator monthly and it’s on the C150 form
FracFocus data contains amount of water in use as well as constituents (possible project for anyone)
Available on OCD website as Excel table (updates via email)
contains lat/long info for wells
Bruce Thomson at UNM has been working with chemistry data from FracFocus (looking at what’s been added); report through WRRI soon.
Generation
Time/Date
Volumes
Where?
Injection
Time/Date
Volumes
Relevant wells metadata
Connect to relevant water quality datasets?
Would be good to look at examples of data
Who are key entities to discuss these items with?
Katie Zemlick (OSE)
Martha Cather (PRRC)
Kathleen Murphy (OCD)
Luke Martin (NMBGMR)
Common QC issues?
Water quality considerations
Testing conducted? (Cl, TDS) - when are these taken?
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