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(Oil Price) – As if WTI oil prices in the low $60s per barrel aren’t enough to slow production growth at America’s top producing shale basin, the Permian, new guidelines for permitting saltwater disposalwells could raise the costs for operators, especially smaller producers with limited resources.
In a recent blog post, we discussed a proposed ordinance before the Livingston Parish Council to ban injection and disposalwells in Livingston Parish. Yesterday, the council unanimously voted to pass the ordinance, which places a one-year moratorium on injection and disposalwells. To read more, click here.
Disposal of produced water in the Permian has become a big problem, and the Texas Railroad Commission has granted permits for disposalwells that inject produce water into depths within the Delaware Mountain Group. In Basic Energy Services v. PPC Energy , No.
Last week, the Livingston Parish Council introduced a proposed ordinance that would place a moratorium on “the construction of disposalwells and injection wells in the Parish of Livingston.” [1]
Consequently, over 80% of Texas produced water still finds its way into saltwater disposalwells—a critical infrastructure network that enables continued production. Case Study: When a DisposalWell Flooded a Producing Oil Well A particularly instructive case study emerges in the recent decision of Basic Energy Services v.
Protecting our energy resources is essential to the Permian Basin and the state as a whole,” declared Sparks, who announced industry crime as one of his legislative priorities and filed three packaged bills. 1806 was signed by the governor and will go into effect on Sept.
To address this alleged harm, the Sierra Club sought several forms of injunctive relief, including reduction of waste disposal activities, reinforcement of structures vulnerable to earthquakes, and the establishment of an independent earthquake monitoring center. Defendants Chesapeake Operating, LLC, Devon Energy Production Co.,
By Jillian Marullo Senate Bill 514, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes saltwater pipeline operators in Texas “to install, maintain, and operate” saltwater pipelines “through, under, along, across, or over a public road” in order to transport the wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing operations to disposal sites.
Most of this water goes back into the producing formations via injection wells as part of IOR and EOR programs to get more production from ageing fields. Historically, excess PW not needed for sweeping producing formations has been disposed of in Class II Saltwater Disposalwells (SWD).
If that water cannot be injected back into the disposalwells, where is it all going to go? Well, hold your literal and metaphorical horses. Ira Yates, president and Founder of Friends of the Pecos River (more at: friendsofthepecosriver.org) recently said during an interview, Well, the water has to be clean.
As to the 1994 lease, the Court found that Unocal had an express duty to restore the property “to the same or similar condition existing at commencement of the lease as nearly as practicable” as well as a duty to comply with all applicable governmental regulations.
1150 had passed the Senate and was in the House Energy Resources Committee. As of press time, this bill had passed the Senate and was in the House Energy Resources Committee. As of press time, this bill had passed the Senate and was in the House Energy Resources Committee. As of press time, S.B. Oilfield Theft Package Sen.
Thus, instead of being reused in a subsequent frack job, it is most commonly disposed of deep underground by injection into disposalwells. billion barrels of wastewater were disposed of in Texas injection wells. In 2011, 3.5
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