Breakwater Energy Partners has constructed the largest produced water recycling facility in the Permian Basin. The 80-acre facility, known as the Big Spring Recycling System (BSRS), has a throughput capacity of more than 250,000 barrels per day of recycled produced water.
Located between Howard and Martin counties in Texas, BSRS brings several commercial operators together into a central nexus point and concurrently serves them with frac water blends of up to 100 percent recycled water. The facility also owns or has access to disposal capacity of more than 100,000 barrels per day.
"Operators tell us all the time that they want to recycle 100 percent of their wastewater. But they either lack the ability to aggregate enough recycled water when they need it, or they are unable to distribute their water to others when they have too much," said Jason Jennaro, CEO of Breakwater. "We call our approach collaborative recycling. We're saving our customers money by integrating th
