Ridgeline Energy Services has signed a development agreement with an North American oil and gas producer to construct a single train commercial installation (STCI) in the Leonard Shale, New Mexico, US.
The STCI will test, analyse and treat produced and flowback water from the client's centralised oil production facility, which will either be reused for hydraulic fracturing or scrapped.
Ridgeline's site, which is located outside Jal, produces 2,600 to 4,600 barrels of wastewater per day and will handle produced water from a permanent oilfield treatment facility.
Ridgeline Energy Services CEO Tony Ker said that the firm's technology and water management system is designed to help all its clients operating in south-western US in dealing with water availability issues and the prohibitive expense of trucking and disposal.
