Shale Producers Grapple With Water Woes on Both Ends of Drilling Cycle

摘要

As gas and oil pipeline bottlenecks start to unwind in 2019,another midstream issue threatens to stymie some activity: water management.Water is a crucial element in unconventional gas and oil development,but it poses challenges both at the front end-securing enough of it for hydraulic fracturing in remote and often arid locations-and at the back end,with disposal of the briny and sometimes radioactive fluid that flows out of wells.