Water source: Select Energy Services buys pipeline from Exco that transports wastewater from a paper mill to the Haynesville Shale play

Select to sell waste water for Haynesville fracking

Select Energy Services has started marketing water sourced from paper-mill effluent to operators fracking the Haynesville shale after the Houston-based company bought a pipeline from Exco Resources.

15 August 2011 19:21 GMT Updated 15 August 2011 19:21 GMT

By Luke Johnson

Under a deal Exco signed with the Mansfield paper plant about three years ago, mill-owner International Paper sends treated wastewater that would otherwise be discharged into the Red River to the exploration company through a 24-inch-diameter underground pipeline.

Exco has used water from the pipeline for its hydraulic fracturing operations in the Holly field in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, since the pipeline’s completion in 2010.

Mike

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