{"id":6030,"date":"2014-04-08T08:38:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=6030"},"modified":"2014-04-08T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T15:38:32","slug":"california-farmers-look-to-oil-industry-for-water-from-kqed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/04\/08\/california-farmers-look-to-oil-industry-for-water-from-kqed\/","title":{"rendered":"California farmers look to oil industry for water &#8211; from KQED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Lauren Sommer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With California\u2019s reservoirs running low, many Central Valley farmers are struggling to\u00a0keep their trees and crops alive this year.<\/p>\n<p>In the southern San Joaquin Valley, some are getting extra water from an unlikely source: the oil industry.<\/p>\n<p>California is the third largest oil-producing state in the country, extracting roughly 200 million barrels a year. But in the process of getting oil, companies also produce massive volumes of water, found naturally in the same underground formations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo produce one barrel of oil, we produce about nine barrels of water,\u201d says Chevron\u2019s Thep Smith, walking around the company\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=209G4bJ7A9Y\">Kern River oil field<\/a>, east of Bakersfield. Almost 10,000 pump jacks cover the hills. The field is more than a century old, but is still the second-most productive in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The rock formations that bear oil in California are also full of briny, brackish water, leading to an old saying about oil companies in California: they\u2019re actually water companies that get oil as a byproduct. \u201cThis is really a water plant that skims oil,\u201d Smith says.<\/p>\n<p>During this year\u2019s drought, it\u2019s the district\u2019s only reliable supply, since water deliveries from state and federal water projects have been cut completely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be very tough,\u201d Ansolabehere says. \u201cWe\u2019re looking at just making sure the landowners can keep their trees alive this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Central Valley water districts are in the same boat right now, which is why Ansolabehere says there\u2019s been a lot of interest in this recycling project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLately, I\u2019ve been getting a lot of phone calls,\u201d he says, \u201cmeeting with people that want to do the same type of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oil Industry as Water Source, Not Sink<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oil and agriculture have long been neighbors in Kern County. And it hasn\u2019t been lost on farmers that while their water supplies are going dry this year, the industry next door is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/science\/2014\/03\/31\/how-water-and-oil-mix-in-california\/\">swimming in billions of gallons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s especially true on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, where many water districts rely almost entirely on tenuous supplies imported from elsewhere in the state.<\/p>\n<p>After the oil is separated, Chevron handles millions of gallons of water a day. The company uses about a quarter of it to enhance oil production, turning the water into steam and injecting it back into the rock formation to boost oil flow.<\/p>\n<div id=\"contextly-54626724379a9606d2f66d79412499c5\">\n<p>\u201cThe stuff here is really heavy oil,\u201d Smith says, \u201ckind of like molasses. At room temperature, it actually is almost solid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After using some for steam, there\u2019s still plenty of water to get rid of. Many companies dispose of it long-term by pumping it back underground, where it\u2019s trapped in rock layers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Pump Jacks to Produce<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the only project of its kind in the state, Chevron\u2019s water travels several miles through a 40-inch pipe, until it arrives in a reservoir used by the Cawelo Water District. Chevron provides up to a quarter of the water district\u2019s supply each year, around 26,000 acre-feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that we have this water coming in, it\u2019s a tremendous bonus,\u201d says David Ansolabehere, general manager of the irrigation district, near Bakersfield. \u201cWe deliver water to about 45,000 acres, about 95 percent permanent crops which are nut trees, citrus and vineyards,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The district mixes Chevron\u2019s water with an equal amount of freshwater, until it reaches a quality that works for local orchards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t deliver it straight,\u201d Ansolabehere says. \u201cIt has too much salt, but we blend it down and then it\u2019s irrigation quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have tremendous water resources that are a byproduct of oil production,\u201d says Tupper Hull of the Western States Petroleum Association, an oil industry group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very conceivable that in the very near future,\u201d Hull says, \u201coil production could be a net provider of water for California ag and other purposes, as opposed to a consumer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opponents have criticized the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/science\/audio\/with-drought-new-scrutiny-over-frackings-water-use\/\">oil industry\u2019s use of water<\/a>, largely because the controversial oil extraction technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, consumes freshwater. Recycling water would offset that use, but to duplicate Chevron\u2019s project in other parts of the state, the industry would face significant hurdles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>High Water Treatment Costs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the problems they\u2019ve seen at that project is very high arsenic levels in the water,\u201d says Kassie Siegel of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/\">Center for Biological Diversity<\/a>, an environmental advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>Until a few years ago, Chevron released water from the Kern River field into a local creek during the winter, when demand from farmers was low. The water wasn\u2019t diluted and the company was fined by the regional water quality control board for violating limits on arsenic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just shows again that there\u2019s no safe way to deal with the oil and gas wastewater,\u201d Siegel says. \u201cEvery single method that has been proposed and used has real risks and health harms associated with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dealing with contaminants could be even tougher in other oil fields. \u201cThe water that\u2019s here at Kern River field is at an almost near freshwater quality,\u201d says Chevron\u2019s Abby Auffant, \u201cand that is different from water elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Water produced in the company\u2019s other fields is significantly saltier and would need to go through a treatment process like reverse osmosis, which adds cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we were able to identify a cost-effective manner in which to treat the water,\u201d Auffant says, \u201cit\u2019s certainly something that we would be interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The economic case improves in drought years when water prices are sky-high, but drought economics only last so long.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally the water\u2019s going for $30-40 an acre-foot,\u201d says Ansolabehere. \u201cWhen it costs you $500 to treat it, there\u2019s not really a market except for years like this and then you can\u2019t get the treatment in place in time to really make any effect. So you have to think a couple years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As technology advances and reduces those costs, he adds, it becomes more likely that water recycling projects would come together.<\/p>\n<p>For many, the drought has added new urgency, as a reminder of the state\u2019s limited water resources. \u201cI think as the resource becomes more strained, people look to these other sources as a solution,\u201d says Harry Starkey, general manager of the West Kern Water District, west of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat conversation is happening on the west side,\u201d Starkey says. \u201cIt\u2019ll be interesting to see if you can get oil companies, that tend to be very private, to engage. Getting those two to partner up in those regards \u2013 they\u2019re different classmates. It\u2019s a matter of building trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s something many farmers are watching closely, as they face the long, dry summer ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/science\/audio\/california-farmers-look-to-oil-industry-for-water\/\">Link to article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lauren Sommer With California\u2019s reservoirs running low, many Central Valley farmers are struggling to\u00a0keep their trees and crops alive this year. 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