Bosque Systems sees continued growth

Bosque Systems has announced that it is the largest independent water management contractor in the US, having treated and managed close to 200 million bbls of produced and flowback water for oil and gas operators in 2013.The company is engaged in sourcing, gathering, storing, treating and delivery of fracture-ready water to numerous operators.

"A few years ago, Bosque's business was based solely within the saltwater disposal arena where we own and operate facilities in Texas, Oklahoma and North Dakota," said Clane LaCrosse, president and CEO of Bosque Systems. "Today our treatment, recycling and reuse programs account for more than half of our revenues and we forecast that this trend will increase in the future."

The company works as a partner with oil and gas operators and handles millions of barrels at all phases of the fluid management life cycle. The solutions offered may include sourcing, gathering systems, pipelines, water storage solutions, and various water treatments depending on the water quality, drilling pattern and goals of the operators. "Bosque Systems has developed a very strong business, solution, and service model centered around environmentally friendly fluid management solutions," Clane LaCrosse said. "By partnering with operators, we allow them to concentrate on production and maximise their resources rather than focusing on water management," Clane LaCrosse continued.

The company’s relationship with major operators has grown from disposal to full water life cycle management. "The introduction of our DIONIX TM water treatment system was a turning point,” said Peter Pappas, vice president of business development for Bosque Systems. "From that point, we generated a lot of interest from operators to recycle flowback or produced water.” From this initial success, the company introduced other technologies to provide a single point of contact to operators in need of treatment and recycling.

The growth of the company has been made possible due to extensive hiring of both management and operation personnel. The company continues hiring specialist operators and technicians in markets including the Eagle Ford Shale, the Cline Shale, Permian Basin, Mid-Con region and the Bakken. Rapidly approaching 500 employees, the company is well positioned to solidify its relationships and develop new ones within the active markets and others.

In the Wolfcamp play, considered as possibly the largest oil and gas discovery in the world and, also, a very drought prone area, the company is working to allow operators to reuse 100% of their flowback and produced water, thus minimising fresh water withdrawal and drastically reducing truck traffic in the region by using pipeline across fields. The company leases land and sets up BATTM tanks, containing up to 40 000 bbls of recycled water, and other equipment to capture, treat, and make this water available for the operator. In this region, the company allows for blending up to 30% recycled and treated water within producers' operations.  One customer in the region commented: "We're using 100 percent of the produced water we have.  If we were producing more water, we'd use it." The produced water is mixed with fresh water at the well site. To date, the same operator has used about 2 000 000 bbls (about 84 million gal.) of recycled water, which, without this initiative, would have all been freshwater. Blended water has helped complete over 35 wells in the Eldorado portion of the Wolfcamp since April.

Edited from a press release by David Bizley

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