Breakwater announces expansion of its Midland Basin recycling network

Breakwater Energy Partners LLC, a Houston-based provider of sustainable water supply chain solutions, has announced the further development of its commercial and noncommercial recycling network across the Midland Basin to meet rising customer demand for sustainable water solutions.  

Breakwater expanded its Big Spring Recycling System (BSRS) in Howard and Martin counties in Texas with two additional multiyear produced water offtake and recycling agreements. Breakwater says BSRS is one of the largest recycling networks in the Permian Basin, currently recycling more than 4 million barrels of produced water per month with an aggregation, distribution and recycling capacity of up to 300,000 barrels per day.  

The BSRS facility connects seven separate operator-owned produced water disposal networks into a central hub-and-spoke model to aggregate produced water and distribute recycled water through large diameter pipelines. Breakwater says it paired this physical network with advanced cloud-based data-management and geographic information system (GIS) tools vital for water balancing and optimization across the multioperator network. BSRS physically serves two seismically sensitive areas of the Midland Basin near the cities of Stanton, Texas, and Knott, Texas, with sustainable water management solutions.  

Breakwater also has begun commercial operation at its Morita Commercial Recycling System, which serves southern Howard and northern Glasscock counties in Texas. Morita is Breakwater's second Texas Railroad Commission Division 6 H-11 commercially permitted facility built for the receipt, storage, handling, treatment and transportation of produced and recycled water.   

Breakwater says it also is developing two additional commercial recycling facilities in the Midland Basin to serve central Midland, Glasscock and northern Upton counties in Texas. Breakwater owns or operates 14 recycling facilities and recycles about 500,000 barrels of produced water per day in the Midland Basin.  

"Operators are looking for more sustainable alternatives to high-pressure wastewater injection within seismically sensitive areas," says Jason Jennaro, CEO of Breakwater. "Breakwater's hub-and-spoke water model concurrently provides operators access to high volumes of recycled water within SRAs and disposal outlets outside of them, whichever is more efficient."