Houston's XRI Holdings, an oil and gas water recycling company serving the Permian Basin,...
Houston company XRI Holdings has begun work on its Evolution Pipeline System, meant to connect existing water pipelines in Midland County to ones south in Reagan and Upton counties, and will total 230 miles when complete. According to the company, the System will have the ability to recycle and manage more than 500,000 barrels of the saltwater byproduct, called produced water, in the Permian Basin of West Texas.
XRI’s CEO Matthew Gabriel calls the water pipeline system a win for the oil and gas industry and the community. “The Evolution Pipeline mitigates overpressurization risks caused by injection into salt water disposal wells, reduces the use of groundwater, particularly potable water sources, and lowers our customers’ costs,” said Gabriel.
Last year nearly 2,000 earthquakes rocked through the Permian Basin, a record, and a 74 percent jump from 2020, according to data from the University of Texas at Austin’s TexNet Seismic Monitoring and analyzed by Norwegian energy research firm Rystad. Last month a 5.4 magnitude quake was recorded west of the town of Pecos in the Permian. The Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state’s oil and gas industry,XRI said its pipeline system will add water recycling to areas that have been
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