Houston-based Breakwater Energy Partners said Oct. 5 it constructed the largest recycling facility in Permian Basin for produced water from oilfield operations. Big Spring Recycling System, 80-acre facility in Howard and Martin counties, has throughput capacity of 250,000 barrels per day of recycled produced water. BSRS also owns or has access to disposal capacity of more than 100,000 b/d.
“We call our approach collaborative recycling,” Jason Jennaro, CEO, said. “We’re saving customers money by integrating their entire water supply chain into a single, multi-customer connection point that includes last-mile recycled water distribution to the wellsite… Operators don’t want to pay twice for the same water: once for completions and a second time for disposal… Breakwater has adopted a ‘recycle first’ water midstream model at a time when most of the industry’s water is still discarded into saltwater disposals.”