Case Study: Leading E&P Operator achieves $1M/month water-hauling savings with Seven Lakes Technologies

Optimize Water Hauling, Reduce Costs by One Million Dollars Per Month

Leading E&P Operator, a major upstream oil and gas company producing across the STACK, Delaware, Eagle Ford and Rockies basins, faced a pressing opex challenge: water hauling accounted for roughly 34% of LOE in its Southeast New Mexico business unit and the team lacked visibility into well-level water volumes and contract terms. Logistics and engineering teams turned to Engineering Analytics & Data Management and implemented Seven Lakes Technologies’ Production and LOS Analytics Solutions to unlock the underlying data and investigate hauling costs.

Seven Lakes Technologies delivered drill-downs, visualizations and configurable reporting that let the analyst access well-level water production in under 20 minutes (instead of months), uncover mismatched haul-rate contracts, and rebid services to achieve 30–50% lower haul rates. The vendor’s solution also enabled route optimization and cross‑team collaboration, saving about 1,460 hours, yielding $12 million per year in the Southeast New Mexico unit (roughly $1M per month) and driving estimated company-wide savings of $25–30 million annually.