Waste Management Buys Bosque’s Portable Water Treatment Assets

Waste Management of Pennsylvania, US, has bought Bosque Disposal System’s portable water treatment assets related to the treatment and recycling of flow back and produced water from wells drilled in shale formations.

Waste Management acquired Bosque’s water treatment, recycling processes and operations in the Marcellus Shale region, which covers Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Waste Management also acquired various mobile water treatment units, frac tanks and joint ownership of certain technologies.

James Fish, Waste Management’s vice-president for the Pennsylvania / West Virginia market area, said the purchase extends Waste Management’s suite of environmental solutions to natural gas producers in shale formations throughout North America.

The value of the transaction was not disclosed.