STW Resources Holding Corp. (fka STWSQ)

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Long write up in Fort Stockton news paper. There is more in the article then what I posted.

http://www.fortstocktonpioneer.com/community/article_c0e8e258-a42b-11e5-89b5-27d0a93fe523.html

MPGCD OKs brackish water production

By Bob Beal [e-mail] | Posted 18 hours ago

Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District (MPGCD) on Tuesday issued a consolidated permit for six wells in northern Pecos County. That puts STW Water Process and Technologies (STW) a step closer to finding use for wasted, polluting groundwater. The company is planning a project that involves microbial and reverse osmosis treatment of artesian brackish groundwater upwelling on its leases about 4.5 miles south of Imperial on both sides of FM 1053.

The MPGCD board Tuesday issued the company a drilling permit covering two existing and uncontrolled wells, a new monitoring well and three new production wells, in the San Andres limestone formation, which is over 2,400 feet deep. The permit included a 5,000 acre-feet per year (af/yr) production cap, limited the use of the produced water to industrial purposes, and authorized export out of the county.

STW’s application had sought permits for the two existing wells, nine new wells, 25,000 (originally 50,000) af/yr, and use for industrial and public water supply. STW supplied one letter of intent from a oil field company to use 470–700 af/yr, which sufficed to prove a need for produced water.

Alan Murphy, STW CEO and chairman of the board, said he is in talks with Pecos County about supplementing the water that county-owned Pecos County Freshwater supplies to Coyanosa and Imperial. Murphy also said he is in talks with the City of Crane in Crane County. That city has restricted lawn watering to every other day between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m., and its municipal water supply has naturally occurring arsenic.

The board can hold future hearings to modify the permit. Ty Edwards, MPGCD assistant manager, after the meeting said that with the district having issued the permit it is possible that STW could solidify prospective municipal customers.

One of the primary goals of both the company and the agency is to develop data on the San Andres formation. The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) does not recognize the San Andres as a minor or major aquifer, and little is known about the hydrogeology. Drilling and analyzing cuttings is one way to acquire data; doing pumping tests on completed wells is another.