Company: WBI
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0000950170-25-113383
Chunk: 211

Company: WaterBridge Infrastructure LLC
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 211
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 volumes, which provides a significant economic incentive to ensure reliable produced water handling capacity. While many E&P companies initially developed and operated their own localized produced water handling networks given the importance of flow assurance to their production operations, we believe that the capital expenditures required to develop a single-producer water infrastructure network that is capable of handling pad development and significantly higher initial production volumes is an inefficient use of capital for E&P companies. By aggregating volumes from multiple producers, a third-party network can realize higher utilizations and improve the economics of infrastructure development, allowing E&P customers to redeploy capital for use in development and production activities instead of developing and maintaining water infrastructure.

We manage our extensive infrastructure network through the use of our state-of-the-art centralized operations center. Our operations center is the purpose-built centralized communication hub for our business and is responsible for coordinating activities between our field operations and external stakeholders. Our operations center is staffed 24 hours per day, seven days per week and enables us to continually monitor data from various devices to ensure we are able to promptly detect and respond to any anomalies or emergencies. This includes tracking pressures, temperatures, flow rates, mechanical equipment and alarms, with the ability to control over 10,000 direct control inputs per month. We have over 800 live camera feeds that are continuously monitored and assist in our detection efforts. This infrastructure allows us to achieve a less than 2% error rate in monitoring volumes into and off our system, a figure we believe is industry leading. We employ a number of different monitoring systems, such as camera leak detection AI and optical gas imaging, designed to ensure the safety of our people, our assets and our environment.

In addition to field coordination and safety management, our operations center includes field automation capabilities through which we remotely optimize injection, improve efficiency and reduce costs. Such adjustments include remotely controlling the speed of pumps, opening and closing valves, regulating automation setpoints and optimizing electrical power usage. Through these comprehensive monitoring and optimization efforts, we believe that our operations center has provided us with significant financial benefits in reduced labor costs and operational efficiencies.

Our long-term contracts are structured similarly to traditional crude gathering contracts. Key features of our long-term contracts include:

Long Term – an initial term of 15 years for a majority of our long-term contracts, with a weighted-average remaining term of approximately 11 years as of June 30, 2025;

Fixed Fee – a per-barrel fixed fee charged to transport and handle produced water volumes;

Acreage Dedications and AMIs – dedications of large