If you are a producer of shale oil or gas, you will use water to fracture the shale rock to extract it. It’s called hydraulic fracking. So, your main challenge, other than discovering a suitable oil basin, is water. Where do you source it? How do you get it to the site? How do you dispose of it? And how much should it all cost? It used to be all about phone calls, and a lot of haggling. Until we’ve teamed up with a startup that set out to change all that.