Mineral Extraction from Produced Water

In 2025, Select Water Solutions built a resource recovery strategy on its extensive produced water infrastructure. That strategy took its first public form in Joaquin, Texas, where Select and Mariana Minerals broke ground on a produced water lithium extraction facility, with Mariana funding and operating the plant while drawing on Select’s water treatment expertise and pipeline network to source and manage the produced water the process requires. The facility is designed to produce up to 3,000 metric tons of lithium product annually. 

Select and LibertyStream Infrastructure Partners also agreed to deploy lithium carbonate production facilities at Select’s sites across the Midland Basin, starting with a 1,000 tonne per year facility in Howard County, where LibertyStream has since begun production, delivering its first tonne of lithium carbonate output. 

The strategy has now extended to iodine as well. Select signed a definitive agreement with ISE Chemicals to develop iodine extraction facilities across Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, with ISE funding and operating the plants while Select supplies produced water sourcing, transportation, storage, and pretreatment through its existing platform. The first facility, in Select’s Permian Basin footprint, is targeted for commissioning in 2027, with a company-wide target of about 3,000 tonnes of iodine annually by 2030.