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Getting Grounded on the Seismicity Issue

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

Their activity is precipitated by frac operations and a very small percentage is from injection disposal wells. Every well and geology is different, even when the operations are the same. The methods of produced water disposal are at a crossroads with regulations, seismicity, and cost.

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The Produced Water Challenge

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

This leads to a bifurcated situation: what is the sustainability of current methodologies for disposal, and what are the infrastructures and processes in place to take a product once regarded as waste and turn it into an asset? If that water cannot be injected back into the disposal wells, where is it all going to go?