Company: WBI
Filing Date: 2025-09-15
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-202719
Chunk: 88

Company: WaterBridge Infrastructure LLC
Filing Date: 2025-09-15
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 88
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. Additionally, in the future, regulatory agencies may require us to increase the amount of our closure bonds. Moreover, actual costs could exceed our expectations, as a result of, among other things, federal, state or local government regulatory action, increased costs charged by service providers that assist in closing water handling facilities and additional environmental remediation requirements. Increased regulatory requirements regarding our existing or future water handling facilities, including the requirement to pay increased closure and post-closure costs or to establish increased financial assurance for such activities could substantially increase our operating costs and have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, cash flows and financial position.

Increased regulation of hydraulic fracturing could result in reductions or delays in oil and natural gas production by our customers, which could reduce the volumes of produced water through our water infrastructure systems, which could adversely impact our revenues.

We do not conduct hydraulic fracturing operations, but our customers’ oil and natural gas production is developed from unconventional sources, such as shales, that require hydraulic fracturing as part of the completion process. Hydraulic fracturing is a well-stimulation process that utilizes large volumes of water and sand combined with fracturing chemical additives that are pumped at high pressure to crack open previously impenetrable rock to release hydrocarbons. Hydraulic fracturing is typically regulated by state oil and natural gas commissions and similar agencies. Some states, including those in which we operate, cities, and counties have adopted, or are considering adopting, laws and regulations that could impose more stringent disclosure and well construction requirements on hydraulic fracturing operations, or otherwise seek to ban some or all of these activities. Further, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) and other federal agencies have asserted certain regulatory authority over hydraulic fracturing and has moved forward with various regulatory actions, including the issuance of regulations requiring green completions for hydraulically fractured wells and emission requirements for certain midstream equipment. In addition, the EPA and other federal agencies have conducted various studies concerning the potential environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing activities. Certain environmental groups have also suggested that additional laws may be needed to more closely and uniformly regulate the hydraulic fracturing process; and

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legislation has been proposed from time to time by some members of the U.S. Congress to provide for such regulation. We cannot predict whether any such legislation will be enacted by the U.S. Congress and if so, what its provisions would be.

Additional levels of regulation and permits required through the adoption of new laws and regulations at the federal,