Posted on 03/05/2011 6:02:12 AM PST by thackney
Two natural gas companies agreed Friday to temporarily cease operations of injection wells in an area of central Arkansas that has seen more than 800 earthquakes during the past six months.
Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy and Clarita Operating of Little Rock said they would comply with the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission’s emergency request to stop all injection activities in Greenbriar- and Guy-area wells used to dispose of wastewater from production. The panel’s next regular meeting is March 29.
Geologists are studying a swarm of recent area quakes, most tiny, in an attempt to determine whether there is a connection between the seismic activity and gas-drilling companies’ work in the Fayetteville Shale formation.
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Well come on up to Michigan and get those drills to drilling. We’re an earthquake free zone with plenty of untapped natural gas.
In my experience, this is hysteria fueled by the anti-energy, environmentalists who have been caught trying to connect all sorts of activities to drilling.
It is not unlike the global warming crowd that tries to say the abundance of hurricanes and the lack of hurricanes is the result of global warming.
My thoughts also.
“Well come on up to Michigan and get those drills to drilling. We’re an earthquake free zone with plenty of untapped natural gas.”
Sorry, we’re in the middle of an energy crisis, don’t have time to drill.
Absolutely.
If injections were causing earthquakes, the land north and east of Calgary would be rocking...
Besides, when I lived in Alaska, I always looked at these mini-quakes as pressure reliefs that help prevent the big one.
I would love to see how they cook the numbers on this one!
What a bunch of BS.
This area was Earthquake prone before drilling.
You might be interested in some of the maps I placed on this thread in December regarding the location of the injection wells versus earthquakes:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2642511/posts
True.
Arkansas
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/arkansas/history.php
Earthquake History
This one is real, though. I can’t find it, but I remember an article about a Russian company that drilled a stable zone, that suddenly had a lot of very strong quakes.
Thanks
One news story suggesting this, and they cave. Grrrr.
Morning Joe.
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5.56mm
BS ping!
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