Shale’s Self-Inflicted Crisis: Wastewater Injection Is Sinking Profits

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardJul 4, 2025, 10:00 am237 ptsTop
The shale industry is facing an entirely predictable consequence of its own making. Across major shale-producing basins, particularly East Texas and the Permian, excessive wastewater injection practices have created areas with extreme overpressure, driving up the cost of new drilling operations and threatening…

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