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Measured demand probe

Is produced-water and disposal capacity data valuable enough to normalize across regulators?

A measured demand probe for produced-water volumes, Class II/UIC permits, injection monitoring, well locations, pressures, and operating status. This is not a live dataset or endpoint.

Who this tests: Produced-water midstream teams, E&P operations, land and environmental teams, lenders, counties, and software vendors monitoring disposal capacity and operating risk.

Demand evidence so far

  • Keywords Everywhere, United States, 2026-09-02: “saltwater disposal wells” 110 estimated searches/month and “class ii injection wells” 70/month.
  • Exa found a paid $49/month Texas disposal-well product and official Texas permit, location, monthly volume, pressure, and test-status sources—evidence of both a buyer workflow and fragmented inputs.
  • The latest production refused-demand ledger contained no attributable produced-water or disposal request, so the search and competitor signals require direct buyer validation.

Smallest useful dataset

  • UIC/disposal permit identity, API number, operator, location, formation, authorized fluid, pressure, and daily volume limits.
  • Monthly injected volume and pressure, filing status, revision time, and explicit reporting gaps.
  • Mechanical-integrity test schedule and result where the regulator publishes it.
  • Produced-water volumes joined only when state identifiers and reporting grain support an auditable match.

Decision contract

Primary metric

Human-reviewed workflow-evidence submissions per 100 consented experiment exposures, with submitted evidence classified as capacity, compliance, transaction, or monitoring work.

Continue when

  • ✓ At least five qualified interviews and two recurring workflows that currently require multiple regulator queries or files.
  • ✓ One buyer accepts a paid pilot or written design-partner agreement for a narrow Texas or Permian scope.
  • ✓ The probe reproduces sampled permit and H-10 values at 95% or better audited accuracy.

Stop or redesign when

  • × Users need engineering interpretation, title data, or real-time field telemetry rather than normalized public records.
  • × The recurring willingness to pay does not cover source maintenance and manual exception review.

Inspectable sources

Texas RRC UIC query

Searchable permit attributes including UIC/API identity, operator, formation, status, fluid, depth, and authority dates.

USGS Produced Waters Database

A federal produced-waters research database demonstrating a separate geochemical source class and its scope boundary.

Does this replace work you do today?

Tell us which sources you reconcile, how often, and what decision the joined data changes. Prompt views, clicks, and successful submissions are measured separately; only a reviewed workflow submission counts as qualified demand.

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