{"id":218071,"date":"2026-05-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/texas-big-oil-taps-ai-to-dispose-wastewater\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:50:24","slug":"texas-big-oil-taps-ai-to-dispose-wastewater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/texas-big-oil-taps-ai-to-dispose-wastewater\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas&#8217; big oil taps AI to dispose wastewater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/05\/21\/texas-oil-companies-use-ai-for-wastewater\/\">Texas&#8217; big oil taps AI to dispose wastewater<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/05\/21\/texas-oil-companies-use-ai-for-wastewater\/\">https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/05\/21\/texas-oil-companies-use-ai-for-wastewater\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.texastribune.org\">www.texastribune.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oil and gas companies in Texas&#8217;s Permian Basin are using AI to find alternative ways to manage toxic wastewater produced alongside oil extraction.<\/li>\n<li>AI is helping oil companies in understanding the region&#8217;s geography, accessing data more quickly, and filing permits faster due to stricter regulatory standards.<\/li>\n<li>The use of AI in the industry is not publically disclosed as it poses a competitive advantage for companies.<\/li>\n<li>AI can gather, pull, and study data from multiple datasets across different companies, making it faster and more efficient to manage the increasing amount of wastewater produced.<\/li>\n<li>Due to constraints on underground injection techniques, companies are increasingly using AI to determine the best scenarios for managing produced water, including potential reuse of the water in oil extraction processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas&#8217; big oil taps AI to dispose wastewater https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/05\/21\/texas-oil-companies-use-ai-for-wastewater\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-21 12:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texastribune.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0214-Produced-Water-EL-05.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&quality=100&ssl=1&w=1200&h=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218073,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218071\/revisions\/218073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}