Brady Murphy

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, TETRA Technologies, Inc.

Search every verified Brady Murphy interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Brady Murphy, president and CEO of TETRA Technologies, delivered the opening keynote at the 2026 Produced Water Society Conference in Midland, Texas, on August 19, 2026. During the address, he discussed the company's commercial offering for desalinating produced water for beneficial reuse, which TETRA calls the Oasis Total Desalination Solution. Murphy said the process combines ORO membrane technology with thermal technology, with the membrane extracting about 40% of desalinated water from a typical Permian feed before the concentrate is run to saturation. He noted that TETRA applied for a patent on the process last year, which was granted, and that the company has since received notices of allowance expanding the scope to include pre-treatment technologies. Murphy also highlighted the potential scale of produced water as a resource, stating that the 21 million barrels of water produced daily in the Permian could support 600,000 acres of farmland in Texas or 44 million head of cattle. He discussed growing demand from data centers moving to Texas, saying that a 1-gigawatt data center could consume up to 220,000 barrels of water per day, and suggested that using fresh water for this application in most of Texas would be a non-starter. In response to an audience question, Murphy said TETRA currently performs mineral extraction to produce calcium chloride and is building a bromine plant, with typical mineral extraction efficiencies of 95% or higher, though he said the company had not seen commercial concentrations of gold in produced water samples analyzed.