You Are What You Are… And The West Texas Oilpatch Is Very Thirsty [Analysis + Link Library]

Water sourcing comes up often in our conversations with all sorts of different Permian Basin oilfield participants these days. Extreme thirst is the tight oil industry’s open secret – sourcing is more opaque than supply chain elements like rigs, horsepower, pipe and sand.

We quantify surging water use in West Texas and discuss the implications for 2018 and beyond. This is fast becoming the most important topic in tight oil, and we expect it to generate an increasing number of headlines in 2018+.

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