It is a well-known and scientifically proven fact that oil and water don't mix,but it's increasingly clear they can coexist.Experts discussed how the water market has evolved alongside the shale revolution and the benefits of recycling and reusing produced water in May at Hart Energy's SUPER DUG conference in Fort Worth,Texas.”Speaking globally,reuse is the way to go,whether it's just reuse back into the process for recovery or whether it's reuse and diverting somewhere else”Gerard Cooke,CEO of Belfast,Northern Ireland-based lnov8 Systems,told audience members during the panel.”We're hearing every day that water is a resource.It's not a wasteproduct,it's a resource,and we need to use it.”The reuse of produced water has long been a point of contention when it comes to water-handling,but the four panelists agreed that reuse is something that should be widely adopted within the water midstream industry.
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