Our team has brainstormed and discussed ways to incorporate produced water-related data into NMWDI. Below are the notes we captured during our discussions.
Overview
Three datasets
Freshwater for produced water (injections)
Produced water injections (disposal)
Project water generation
FYI, 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)
Field of interest from a generator/generation perspective
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?
Dataset Details
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
An example dataset that was compiled by Jeri for Kathleen at OCD is below
The first tab (expanded production injection summary) has a download of a typical data set from the OCD website (not the FTP page). It is an excel sheet that is generated from a request. You will see that there is a lot of information of interest. In particular, folks are interested in the ratio between the amount of oil or gas generated and the amount of water. So there is value in reporting both together. Also the regions and counties are interesting. There are a few coal seam wells also. FYI, there are often discrepancies between the Excel and FTP files.
The other tabs of interest ("onsite disposition") were generated by OCD. These give us an idea of where water is disposed. Sometimes it is evaporated in pits, sometimes reinjected. FYI, this data is not often available through the FTP site, so folks would need to contact Kathleen Murphy directly.
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
Key entities to continue these discussions with:
Kathleen Murphy (OCD)
Luke Martin (NMBGMR)
Martha Cather (PRRC)
Katie Zemlick (OSE). A presentation Katie did about produced/freshwater data is linked below.
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