Laura Capper
President
EnergyMakers Advisory Group
Houston, Texas
Presentation Topic: Produced Water Management Environmental Challenges and Solutions
Presentation Date: October 16, 2025
Meet Your Speaker:
Laura Capper is President of consulting firm EnergyMakers Advisory Group. Laura’s expertise includes water management planning, treatment technologies, beneficial reuse and agricultural resource development, disposal well health and risk management, bottomhole pressure assessments, seismicity, regulatory permitting and policymaking, subsurface infrastructure integrity, landowner development strategies, beneficial reuse and mineral harvesting strategies, geothermal infrastructure and treatment, carbon sequestration, and related due diligence and M&A support. She leads an expert team in subsurface due diligence and forensic environmental and contamination specialists. EnergyMakers offers detailed Bottomhole Pressure Studies for all U.S. Onshore injection wells, and regularly forecasts Produced Water available for beneficial reuse, reservoir capacity indicators for SWD, carbon sequestration and hydrogen development, and critical ESG water metrics. EnergyMakers offers in-depth resource profiling for over 1400 blocks in the Texas Permian Basin, with 125 environmental, permit, and performance parameters. The EnergyMakers team has provided services to over 100 leading operators and oilfield service companies, reviewed over 400 water treatment technologies, provided due diligence for $6 Billion in transactions, and contributed to the design of 100+ fixed treatment facilities. Laura is a proud Director of the Produced Water Society, serves as an advisor to the New Mexico Produced Water Recycling Consortium and the Texas Produced Water Recycling Consortium, and served as advisor to the U.S. DOE PARETO Produced Water Optimization Initiative.
Presentation Abstract:
Laura Capper describes the circumstances in the Texas Permian which have led to the environmental and financial challenges we face today managing produced water mainly via disposal well outlets (SWD) in the Permian basin. She describes root causes, symptoms and repercussions, the extent of subsurface damage, a “grading system” she had developed to screen SWD sites for permit parameters and performance, and strategies for risk avoidance going forward. She also reviews recent regulatory changes, and the operational and financial implications of those policy changes on Oil and Gas Operators in Texas and New Mexico’s Permian Basin. Lastly, she touches on the critical role of Beneficial Reuse – treating produced water for other industries like agricultural, industrial use, and municipal use. We can help companies obtain better operations continuity and avoid operational financial and legal risks. We can help companies plan for the future as water outlets like SWD wells decline in capacity and water shortages grow in other industrial markets. We can help students seek long running career plans which will increase in importance. We can help individuals and companies do a better job with environmental protections.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Oil and Gas Produced water managers, HSEQ, Field Operations, General Counsel, Exploration and Production, Completions, Waste Management, General Counsel, Midstream Planning, Production planning working in Oil and Gas, Transition Energy, Environmental Services, Midstream, Water Treatment, Law firms