Experts at this week’s Produced Water Summit discussed what to do with the 15-18 billion barrels per day of water that’s produced in the fracking of oil and natural gas wells in the Permian Basin. The ...

Wastewater from many industries, restaurants, and households, contains stable oil-water emulsions that are challenging to break apart. Membranes can do this separation without using chemicals or large ...

The agency wants to make it easier to treat and reuse wastewater at drilling sites. Research is advancing, but some skeptics abound. Oil and gas companies are running out of options for disposing of ...

Giant new oil and gas wells that require astonishing volumes of water to fracture bedrock are threatening America’s fragile aquifers. Increasingly complex oil wells are sweeping across Texas, ...

Hundreds of thousands of old oil and gas wells are spread across Pennsylvania, and some could be leaking harmful chemicals into the atmosphere and groundwater. This is the warning of research led by ...