Milestone Environmental Services Expanding in the Permian Basin
HOUSTON and MIDLAND, Texas – August 8, 2017– Milestone Environmental Services (Milestone), an industry leader in oil and gas waste management, announced the ground breaking of its new oilfield waste disposal facility located south of Midland. The new South Midland facility marks Milestone’s second in the Permian Basin and their eighth in Texas.
The site is planned to open in the fourth quarter of 2017. Milestone plans to hire approximately 20 additional employees to run the facility and hiring is scheduled to begin in September.
The South Midland facility will be capable of taking drilling, completion and production waste streams including oil-based and water-based muds, drilling fluids, flowback, tank bottoms, dirty water and produced water. Using its proprietary slurry injection process, Milestone securely injects a mixture of the waste streams over a mile below the earth’s surface where they are safely sequestered beneath multiple confining layers of stone. The facility has been designed to efficiently provide full-service washouts for trucks and frac tanks.
Site Selection and Design 
“This expansion reflects Milestone’s deep commitment to the Permian. We are proud to enable E&P operators to produce energy in a more environmentally sustainable manner,” said President and Chief Executive Officer, Gabriel Rio. “With the addition of our South Midland facility, Milestone will be well positioned to serve E&P operators in the Midland Basin.”
“The design of this facility will provide improved safety, efficiency and capacity, plus reduce truck unloading and washout times for E&P customers,” said Jason Larchar, director of engineering. “We have incorporated sound engineering principles and the best equipment available, as well as feedback from our customers and our operations and safety teams at Milestone. The South Midland site will be our most efficient, safest and highest capacity oilfield waste disposal facility we have built so far.”
About Milestone Environmental Services
Milestone Environmental Services is an oilfield environmental services provider with an environmentally-focused, cost-effective, and efficient approach to managing oilfield waste. Milestone operates strategically-located, state-of-the-art disposal facilities that provide dependable, local services for leading U.S. oil and gas operators. Milestone is a premium provider of injectable oilfield waste disposal, operating for more than 20 years. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and currently has seven injection locations in Texas. For more information, please visit www.milestone-es.com.