2025 Kickoff Meeting!

Please join us as we kick of 2025 with DL Dr. Kyle Murray who will be presenting "Pathway for Recovering Valuable Elements of Interest from Subsurface Brines and Oilfield Produced Waters". In this presentation, Dr. Murray will assess how elements of interest (EOI) in produced waters and downhole brines might be recovered.  He will review the current commodity markets, characterization of waters and wastes for EOI concentrations, and computation of gross values of EOI. Technologies that are best economically favorable for extraction of EOI will also be reviewed.

This promises to be a topic of great interest as solutions to produced water disposal become more and more restricted.

BIO

Dr. Kyle E. Murray is the Principal Scientist of Murray GeoConsulting, LLC. He earned a Ph.D. in Geological Engineering from Colorado School of Mines and has worked on geoscience projects since 1995. Dr. Murray’s experience as a consultant or researcher is in hydrogeology, natural resources and GIS databases, water resources, induced seismicity, produced water management, and resource recovery. His current focus is to evaluate produced water from the oil and gas industry, characterize it for elements of interest (EOI), and pursue economically viable alternatives to recovering critical minerals and other EOI from produced water, other waters, and wastes.