Cutting edge insights into legal, political, and commercial developments affecting the Lone Star State’s most precious natural resource.
Full Analysis available at: https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/6268119b/bi-report-032018-ces-groundwatervalue.pdf Synopsis: Multiple methods can be used to value groundwater, with some more applicable in certain situations
The author discussed a range of methods that can be used–and are used–to value groundwater resources in Texas. Full presentation
Keynote address delivered to Produced Water Society Seminar 2018 13 February 2018, Sugar Land, TX Gabriel Collins, J.D., Baker Botts
Gabriel Collins, “Key Permian Basin Oil Producers Can Now Move More Water Per Day Than Midland or Odessa,” Texas Water
To either close deals or resolve disputes, parties and courts must be able to attach a credible economic value to water. In many cases, the water at issue may still be underground in the aquifer.
Full Article Executive Summary: The issue matters because increased produced water recycling can help operators achieve significant structural cost-reductions—both for
Gabriel Collins, “Recycle Produced Water, Reduce Costs, and Boost Invest-able Capital,” Texas Water Intelligence™, Water Note #6, 2 October 2017 Surface
Food-Energy-Water: The Three-Legged Stool on Which Civilization Stands
Gabriel Collins, “How Much Water Does Apache Potentially Need to Develop Alpine High?,” Texas Water Intelligence™, Water Note #5, 19 June
Gabriel Collins, “Potential Transaction Structures for Produced Water in Texas,” Texas Water Intelligence™, Water Note #4, 27 April 2017 Produced water
Gabriel Collins, J.D., “Oilfield Produced Water Ownership in Texas: Balancing Surface Owners’ Rights and Mineral Owners’ Commercial Objectives,” February 2017, Baker
Fulltext available here. Gabriel Collins and Hilmar Blumberg, “Implementing three-dimensional groundwater management in a Texas groundwater conservation district,” Texas Water
