Really don’t need water pipelines here. It’s trucked for the distance from the water utilizes to the site. That’s a good paying job.
Sites move often, pipelines don’t.
And with our dams, rivers and lakes we have MORE than adequate water.
And today’s horizontal drilling techniques give the ability to work the equivalent of a dozen single vertical pipe of old.
The pipeline thing was just a joke as he was talking about bringing the water from Pennsylvania. J. B. Thomas was the highest it has been in decades after big rains in Borden County. Red Bluff filled up pretty good during a wet spell on the Pecos but droughts are a part of West Texas. Besides, the wells are only targeting the deeper benches so that they hold all of the acreage. There are still multiple benches up the hole.
My questions would be, how much water are we talking about (to fully exploit the Permian Basin) and from how far would it have to come, and what’s happening with the water table independent of fracking in that region?
PA is a different story, yes, but, how close are libs to blocking fracking in PA?