石油设备网讯 据美国钻井网站2022年12月29日报道，油气勘探和生产公司可以通过利用直接锂提取(DLE)方法将废水转化为收入来源。
这是根据知名咨询机构Enverus Intelligence Research (EIR)的一份新报告得出的结论，该报告主要关注二叠纪盆地DLE背后的经济和环境潜力。在报告中，EIR估计特拉华州盆地的废水每年可产生约22.5万吨碳酸锂，并产生190亿美元的额外收入。
报告还强调，美国的关键矿产项目受益于《通胀削减法案》的政策改进——该法案为锂的开采和精炼带来了10%的税收抵免——以及《国防生产法案》每年高达10亿美元的联邦资金。
EIR副总裁格雷厄姆·贝恩在发给美国钻井网站的一份公司声明中说：“直接锂提取是解锁北美锂安全的关键。”
他在声明中补充说：“DLE比传统的锂矿更环保，项目的投产时间不长，通过从废水中提取锂，它们有可能为油气勘探开发公司带来数十亿美元的收入。”
在本月早些时候发给美国钻井网站的另一份声明中，EIR高级助理Stephen Pratt表示，特拉华地区的许可活动已经从盆地富含液体的地区转移到富含天然气的地区。
Pratt在声明中表示：“与盆地核心地区相比，天然气加权地区相对良好的经济水平产生了相当的回报和价值，应该与具有区域选择性的运营商争夺资本。”
得克萨斯州铁路委员会网站强调，二叠纪盆地位于得克萨斯州西部和新墨西哥州东南部的毗邻地区，该盆地占地约250英里宽，300英里长，由得克萨斯州西部的7000多个油田组成。
达拉斯联邦储备银行(FRBD)在其网站上显示，从2022年1月至6月，美国二叠纪地区石油产量的份额为43.2%，二叠纪地区天然气产量的份额为16.7%，数据来源为美国能源信息署(EIA)和FRBD的计算。
李峻 编译自 美国钻井网站
原文如下：
Oil Cos Could Turn Wastewater Into Revenue Stream
Exploration and production companies could turn wastewater into a revenue stream by leveraging direct lithium extraction (DLE).
That’s according to a new Enverus Intelligence Research (EIR) report, which focuses on the economic and environmental potential behind DLE in the Permian basin. In the report, EIR estimates wastewater in the Delaware basin could produce around 225,000 tons of lithium carbonate per year and generate $19 billion in additional revenue.
The report also highlights that critical minerals projects in the U.S. benefit from policy enhancements with the Inflation Reduction Act - which it points out brought in a 10 percent tax credit on mining and refining of lithium - and through federal funding of up to $1 billion per year with the Defense Production Act.
“Direct lithium extraction is the key to unlocking lithium security in North America,” Graham Bain, the vice president at EIR, said in a company statement that was sent to Rigzone.
“DLE is more environmentally friendly than traditional lithium mines, projects don’t take as long to commission and they have the potential to generate billions of dollars in revenue to E&P companies through the extraction of lithium in wastewater,” he added in the statement.
In a separate statement sent to Rigzone earlier this month, EIR Senior Associate Stephen Pratt said permitting activity across the Delaware had shifted from the liquids-rich regions of the basin to the gas-weighted areas.
“The relative well-level economics in the gas-weighted areas generate comparable returns and value when compared to the core of the basin and should compete for capital for operators with regional optionality,” Pratt said in the statement.
The Permian basin is located in West Texas and the adjoining area of southeastern New Mexico, the Texas Railroad Commission website highlights, adding that it covers an area approximately 250 miles wide and 300 miles long and is composed of more than 7,000 fields in West Texas.
From January to June 2022, the share of U.S. oil produced in the Permian stood at 43.2 percent and the share of U.S. natural gas produced in the Permian stood at 16.7 percent, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (FRBD) showed on its website, citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and calculations from the FRBD as sources for the percentages.
