Compiled by WEN Staff

Big Cat Energy is on a roll, having added three more Coal Bed Methane (CBM) operators, one of which is J.M. Huber, to its expanding rooster of producers wanting to test the company’s patented ARID tool - which stands for Aquifer Recharge Injection Device. Each of the new companies has operations in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin.

Big Cat Energy’s President,Tim Barritt, commented “With the weakening of the U.S. gas prices operators are now realizing just how large the cost savings is using the ARID Tool and process and how it affords them the ability to keep wells operating even at current market levels and below.”

The company is currently working on approximately 51 permit
applications from a variety of CBM operators and continues to
add to that number as new projects develop from existing
clients and new operators who want to begin pilot projects in
their respective areas. Once the pilot projects prove
successful, Big Cat anticipates significant future sales from
these operators.

Last month, Big Cat Energy staff gave a tour to officials from
the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality to help them
become familiar with the operations of an ARID Tool in a CBM
well. Key topics addressed during the tour included ARID Tool
mechanical operations and permitting guidelines to help
streamline the Underground Injection Control permitting
process.

In addition to the Powder River Operations, the company is also
targeting the Raton basin in southern Colorado and northern New
Mexico. Big Cat says that producers in the Raton Basin region
are looking at ARID as an alternate water handling method - and
water is what it’s all about.

As managing water produced by CBM wells becomes more difficult
for producers, Big Cat Energy’s technical solution and process
offers a highly effective way to conserve precious water and
save money, according to the company. By re-injecting produced
water from the coal bed into a comparable receiving sand zone,
located above or below the producing coal zone in the same well
bore, producers are not only saving up to 85% in water handling
costs they are storing a valuable natural resource for later use.