“salty water contaminated with oil”
Make that “oil contaminated with salty water.”
Oil is the good stuff. If there was a contaminant in the admixture, it must be the salty water.
This was loss of containment of a SWD well. That’s salt water disposal well. You take all the flowback water and produced water and inject it into a SWD well for disposal. So correctly this is salt water contaminated with hydrocarbons not a producing well at all. As for the earthquakes I did my third master’s in hydraulically induced seismisity you absolutely can induce fracture and movement. We set off a 3 pointer by injecting within 1/4 mile of an existing fault line. The Texas UIC partially used my research to increase the setback distance to at least 1/2 mile from any known existing fault system in the Midland basin as well as setting a 500 foot floor above the basement strata in the Cambrian granite basement or the lower Ellenburger