Laura Capper
President, EnergyMakers Advisory Group
As President of EnergyMakers Advisory Group, Laura Capper and her team of domain experts help Operators and Midstream companies Identify and Permit optimal locations for Water Management and Disposal operations under Texas and New Mexico regulatory regimes. In addition to identifying high-need, low risk sites for safe water management operations, EnergyMakers offers in-depth subsurface Injection Profiles / Databases across the Permian’s Midland, Delaware and Central Basin platforms allowing industry and infrastructure partners to quickly and reliably identify SWD permit performance and volumetric and pressure limits, while avoiding subsurface risk exposures, prior to beginning the permit process. EnergyMaker’s expertise includes water management and beneficial reuse treatment trains, assessment of over 400 treatment technologies, regulatory permitting, beneficial reuse and agricultural resource development, disposal well health and risk management, bottomhole pressure assessments, PG/PE Review Services, NORM, legislative and policy considerations, subsurface infrastructure integrity, landowner development strategies, mineral harvesting strategies, geothermal and carbon sequestration planning, and related due diligence and M&A support. EnergyMakers has been conducting Bottomhole Pressure Studies across the continental U.S. going back to the 1970’s through to 2026, along with risk avoidance features for SWD, carbon sequestration, datacenter source water, and critical ESG water metrics. Laura serves as a Director for the Produced Water Society, serves as advisor to the New Mexico Produced Water Recycling Consortium and the Texas Produced Water Recycling Consortium, and has served as advisor to the U.S. DOE PARETO Produced Water Optimization Initiative.