Produced Water Injections/Generations

• 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: ftp://164.64.106.6/Public/OCD/

    • 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

      • Has a well API (can be joined to other 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 → Kathleen has a GIS layer on this already

    • Bruce Thomson at UNM has been working with chemistry data from FracFocus (looking at what’s been added); report through WRRI soon.

  • Other datasets in GIS

    • Seismic activity (NMTech site)

    • Recycling facility data (Kathleen has it; year old now)

      • Compiled by Katie’s student (includes design info)

      • Challenges: can query for sites but can’t do a bulk download of search entries

Priorities

• Agency → biggest need is a user interface that makes it easier to get produced/freshwater data (through well, API, or both) Coordinate with Luke and Martha

  • Production data being used by Luke: https://newmexicowaterdata.org/dataset/ocd-data-ftp

    • Monthly data comes from OCD

    • PRRC data: https://newmexicowaterdata.org/dataset/petroleum-recovery-resource-center

    • Asked for more well data (locations) more downloaded on the FTP site

  • Venting and flaring data also need to be put in a more usable format

• Research

  • Numerous!

Resources

• Who are key entities to discuss these items with?

  • Katie Zemlick (OSE)

  • Martha Cather (PRRC)

  • Kathleen Murphy (OCD)

  • Luke Martin (NMBGMR)

• Katie’s presentation about produced/freshwater data:

Generation

• Time/Date

• Volumes

• Where?

• Injection

  • Time/Date

  • Volumes

  • Relevant wells metadata

  • Connect to relevant water quality datasets?

• Common QC issues?

• Water quality considerations

  • Testing conducted? (Cl, TDS) - when are these taken?