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Permalink Reply by dbob on November 29, 2015 at 12:36

Disposal is too cheap and re-use is too expensive.  

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Permalink Reply by Bradley McWilliams on November 29, 2015 at 13:01

I thought that might come into play.  "Cheap disposal" in not a spoken term here in AR...

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Permalink Reply by dbob on November 29, 2015 at 15:54

I obviously oversimplified it -

Basically, you don't want/can't really have 200 produced water trucks show up at the frac site each day and you don't really want to pipe it through 10" steel or aluminum irrigation pipe.  So you either need to be to move it in more secure poly pipe/dedicated in ground lines, or treat it to be essentially freshwater before moving it in leaky pipe.  

Oh, and unless your freshwater is coming from the same place that is supplying the produced water, you need 2 sets of water transfer lines.

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Permalink Reply by Bradley McWilliams on November 30, 2015 at 2:52

That's a good observation.  And your right, you would have to have a separate line for fresh and re-use.  Also, it would seem that poly is the way to go, since it can be reused.  I would also think the truck count would be much higher, more like 1000 per day.

So your guess is it's more of a logistics thing?

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