BULK WATER Services for Notrees, TX

Occidental Petroleum's Stratos Direct Air Capture facility is sited on a 65-acre campus approximately 35 miles west of Odessa, near the community of Notrees in Ector County (Pboilandgasmagazine), representing a $1.3 billion investment developed through a joint venture with BlackRock that received its first-of-kind EPA Class VI injection permits in April 2025 and is designed to capture up to 500,000 metric tonnes of atmospheric CO2 per year, making the Notrees corridor the site of the world's largest operational direct air capture facility. Stratos capture trains entered wet commissioning with water circulation in 2025 as the facility advanced toward commercial operations (Carbon Herald), a commissioning process that itself requires sustained bulk water access for system flushing, thermal cycling, and process circuit startup before the facility reaches steady-state operations. Notrees sits along US-302 in northwestern Ector County, positioned at the western edge of the Permian Basin's Midland sub-basin producing corridor, approximately 35 miles from the Odessa-Midland metro and within direct service range of the upstream oil and gas operations across Ector, Crane, and Winkler counties that collectively sustain one of the highest concentrations of active well programs in West Texas. Ector County has more than 19,700 wells drilled since 1993 (MineralAnswers), and the combination of that upstream density with the Stratos facility's ongoing commissioning and operational water requirements, injection well support infrastructure, and site service traffic creates a multi-source water demand environment in Notrees' immediate operating area. Facilities of this technical complexity require confirmed water supply arrangements well before construction completion and commissioning begin, as access road integrity, system wet-out procedures, and crew support all depend on non-potable bulk water that cannot be sourced reliably through ad hoc arrangements at the commissioning phase. Water Runner provides TCEQ-licensed bulk water delivery with the fleet capacity and Permian Basin operational reach to serve Notrees-area industrial facilities, upstream oilfield programs, and infrastructure construction projects reliably from first site mobilization through full operational handoff.