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# Water Management Planning in the Eagle Ford Shale Play

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# Understanding the Eagle F ord Shale Play

 

## Eagle Ford Shale 

## development is growing quickly, but still in the early stages.

 

## Concerns regarding water sourcing are 

## growing.

 

## Water disposal challenges are arising.

 

## Water management 

## planning for the lifecycle is a critical development element.

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# Participants in the Eagle Ford is Growing

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# Water Issues in the News...

San Antonio Current ―Final projections for the Eagle Ford have since been shifted up as high as 45,000 acre

- feet (14.6 billion gallons) at peak production

— now expected to hit seven years earlier in 2024. Last year, the formation required around 6,000 acre

- feet of water. This year’s activity has been considerably more demanding that that, creating a market for water sales from the region’s ranches.‖ Texas Water Development Board ―A report released in July by the TWDB estimated that industry uses about 12 billion gallons of water annually for hydrofracking in Texas now, but that demand will grow to 39.1 billion gallons before 2030.‖ Texas Oil & Gas Accountability Project ―Amid increasing scarcity of water supplies, the immense quantities of water required for hydraulic fracturing are not sustainable. Huge volumes of water are needed to extract shale gas. Estimates range from 1.5 million to five million gallons of water per well, and wells may be refracked several times over the life of each well. Recently, the oil and gas industry announced a new

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- stage completion method that uses over 9 million gallons of water per well.‖

Standard

- Examiner ―Amid the brutal drought, competing users and local groundwater conservation districts in this part of the state see the industry's unregulated, gluttonous use of fresh water as a huge problem. "I want them to quit using fresh water for fracking ," said Slate Williams, general manager of the Crockett Groundwater Conservation District.‖

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# Water Management is Simple

– Right?

Non

- Saline Water

- Surface water

- Groundwater

- Alternative Sources

Seismic Operations

Road and Lease

Construction

Well Drilling

Well Completions Gas Production & Transportation

Brackish/Saline Groundwater Produced Water

Frac Fluid Flowback Disposal Well

Reuse

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Evolving Regulations Economics Droughts

Compliance Timing

Risks

# Lifecycle Water Management Planning

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 

### A lifecycle approach is needed to address the 

### many issues important to industry:

 

### Regulatory timing & vulnerabilities

 

### Legislative changes

 

### Public opposition

 

### Historical Activities

 

### Competition for

resources

 

### Flowback recovery

 

### Third

- party options and risks

 

### Environmental risks

 

### Etc... • Pre

- Development Assessment

• Water Sourcing Availability & Issues

• Well Site Construction & Drilling

• Water Conditioning/Pre

- Treatment

• Well Completion/Fracturing

• Flowback/Produced Water

• Reuse/Disposal/Beneficial Use

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# Pre

- Development Assessment Considerations

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# Surface Water Sourcing Alternatives

Availability:

 

### Resource is well managed through system of reservoirs and water right permitting.

 

### Drought is increasing strain on supplies. 

### Sourcing Considerations:

 

### Little water is available for appropriation through TCEQ.

 

### Some river authorities are 

### permitted to sell water for oil and gas use.

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# Groundwater Sourcing Alternatives

Availability:

 

### The Carrizo

- Wilcox is the largest aquifer in the play.

 

### Minor aquifers are more susceptible to drawdown.

 

### The Gulf Coast Aquifer is a brackish water source in the eastern portion of the play. 

### Sourcing Considerations:

 

### Permits may be required 

### depending on the depth and specific Groundwater Conservation District Rules.

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# Water Sourcing Going Forward

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### Fresh Water

 

### Percentage of fresh water utilization should decrease over time



### Recycled Water

 

### Anticipate increased utilization of recycled water as technology 

### develops

 

### Highly dependent on companies’ scale of development



### Alternative Water Sourcing

 

### Anticipate increased use of lower

- quality groundwater, where available and feasible

 

### Utilization of alternative sources could supplement water demand

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# HF Water Usage by Shale Play

Shale Basin/Play Maximum Observed Water Usage 

### Minimum

Observed Water Usage Well

Sample 

### Bakken 3,000,000 1,000,000 54
Barnett 8,250,000 1,000,000 103
Barnett

- Woodford 3,600,000 500,000 60 Eagle Ford 13,700,000 2,000,000 199 Fayetteville 9,600,000 1,500,000 456 Haynesville 8,000,000 3,600,000 27 Hilliard

- Baxter

- Mancos 1,300,000 1,000,000 8 Marcellus/Utica 9,250,000 1,500,000 74 Woodford 16,300,000 2,000,000 71 Woodford

- Caney 7,400,000 3,500,000 14

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# HF Water Usage in the Eagle Ford

Operator Maximum Observed Water Usage Minimum Observed

Water Usage Well

Sample Anadarko Petroleum Corporation 9,500,000 3,500,000 27 Cabot Oil & Gas Corp 5,200,000 3,150,000 5 Chesapeake Operating, Inc. 8,500,000 2,650,000 61 ConocoPhillips Company 3,900,000 2,400,000 30 El Paso E&P Company 6,900,000 4,150,000 9 Forest Oil Corporation 5,250,000 2,700,000 5 Penn Virginia Oil & Gas Corporation 5,400,000 4,000,000 6 Petrohawk Energy Corporation 6,850,000 2,700,000 24 Pioneer Natural Resources 3,900,000 2,000,000 3 Plains Exploration & Production 4,250,000 3,750,000 2
Rosetta Resources 6,100,000 5,500,000 6 Shell Exploration & Production 3,600,000 2,750,000 8 SM Energy 13,700,000 6,200,000 10 XTO Energy/ExxonMobil 4,250,000 3,600,000 3

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# Well Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing

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###  

## Hydraulic fracturing uses more 

## water than drilling.

 

## Fracturing fluid is >99% water and sand.

 

## Understanding water 

## requirements in relation to development pace is critical.

 

## Pre

- treatment and water conditioning increasingly 

## important.

 

## Chemical Screening a priority! Image: EnergyinDepth.org 2009 Source: Compiled from Data collected at a Fayetteville Shale Fracture Stimulation by ALL Consulting 2008.

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### Eagle Ford (Gas) Eagle Ford (Oil)

 Water

 Proppant (Sand/Quartz)

 Aliphatic acids

 Aliphatic Alcohols, ethoyxylated #1

 Amine Derivative

 Carbohydrate polymer

 Citric Acid

 Ethane

- 1,2

- diol

 Formic Acid

 Glutaraldehyde

 Hydrochloric Acid

 Methanol  Water

 Proppant (Sand/Quartz)

 Ammonium Persulfate

 Citric Acid

 Ethylene Glycol

 Hydrochloric Acid

 Hydrotreated light petroleum distillate

 Isopropanol

 Methanol

 Polyethylene glycol

 Potassium Carbonate

 Potassium Chloride

 Potassium Hydroxide

 Sodium Chloride

 Sodium Hydroxide 

# Common Fracturing Additives

 Propargyl Alcohol

 Sodium bromate

 Sodium erythorbate

 Sodium Hydroxide

 Sodium tetraborate

 Sodium Thiosulphate

 Synthetic organic polymer

 Tetrakis (Hydroxymethyl) Phosphorium Sulfate

 Tetramethylammonium chloride

 Tetrasodium ethylenediaminetetraacet

ate

 Trisodium Nitrilotriacetate

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# Planning for Disposal Alternatives

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# Beneficial Use Alternatives

 

### Beneficial uses in unconventional plays such as CBM have been common.

 

### Beneficial uses for water produced from shale gas wells has potential (similar to CBM).

 

### Expect beneficial uses of Eagle Ford water 

### in the future (but not like CBM).

16 Stock Watering Tank (WY) J.M. Huber Corporation

PW Irrigation (PRB) Fidelity Exploration Spray Irrigation of CBM Produced Water Trout Fishing in a CBM Produced Water Pond

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# Issues to watch!

 

## As development in the Eagle Ford expands, all associated 

## issues are likely to be increasingly scrutinized

 

## Threats of regulation of drilling waste and produced water under RCRA

 

## Increased stringency of UIC permits associated with disposal of water produced after fracturing

 

## Permitting, design and use of impoundments

 

## Increases regulation associated with water sourcing

 

## DOE & EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study

 

## NY DEC Supplemental GEIS

 

## Challenges pertaining to beneficial use

 

## Plus tons of other stuff...

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## Citation Information Arthur, J. Daniel (ALL Consulting). ― W ATER M ANAGEMENT P LANNING IN THE E AGLE F ORD S HALE P LAY ”, Society of Petroleum Engineer’s 2011 Eagle Ford Technical Workshop Austin, Texas, August 24

- 26, 2011 Contact Information

J. Daniel Arthur, P.E., SPEC Project Manager darthur@all

- llc.com ALL Consulting 1718 S. Cheyenne Ave. Tulsa, OK 74119 www.all

- llc.com

Prepared by J. Daniel Arthur, P.E., SPEC 18 Special Thanks to: Nathan Alleman Mark Layne Jason Veale Damian Zampogna Ben Bockelmann Chase Brownell Cory Lanham Rita Giordano