Datasets associated with investigating the potential for beneficial reuse of produced water from oil and gas extraction outside of the energy sector

Bridget R Scanlon; Robert C Reedy; Pei Xu; Mark Engle; J P Nicot; David Yoxtheimer; Qian Yang; Svetlana Ikonnikova

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105406

Datasets associated with investigating the potential for beneficial reuse of produced water from oil and gas extraction outside of the energy sector

Data Brief. 2020 Mar 9:30:105406. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105406. eCollection 2020 Jun.

Authors

Bridget R Scanlon¹, Robert C Reedy¹, Pei Xu², Mark Engle³, J P Nicot¹, David Yoxtheimer⁴, Qian Yang¹, Svetlana Ikonnikova¹

Affiliations

¹ Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
² Department of Civil Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States.
³ Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States.
⁴ Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, College of Earth and Mineral Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.

Abstract

The data in this report are associated with https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137085[4] and include data on water volumes and water quality related to the major unconventional oil and gas plays in the U.S. The data include volumes of water co-produced with oil and gas production, county-level estimates of annual water use volumes by various sectors, including hydraulic fracturing water use, and the quality of produced water. The data on volumes of produced water and hydraulic fracturing water volumes were obtained from the IHS Enerdeq and FracFocus databases. Water use in other sectors was obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey water use database. Data on produced water quality were obtained from the USGS produced waters database.

Keywords: Beneficial reuse; Hydraulic fracturing water; Produced water; Unconventional oil and gas; Water management; Water quality.