Apache Corporation partners with Borderlands Research Institute

Apache Corporation announced a partnership with the Borderlands Research Institute at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, to launch a well pad restoration research project. Through this multiyear partnership, researchers at BRI and Texas Native Seeds, a project of the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M Kingsville, will investigate methods to improve habitat restoration efforts in the Permian Basin with the goal of publishing a science-backed, best practices reclamation document to be shared with other Permian operators. The BRI project will help inform oil and gas operators in the Permian about how changes in the industry’s collective approach to restoring end-of-service well pads can have broader benefits to local biodiversity and reunite fragmented habitats.