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Texas regulator clears oil and gas company of causing quakes

2015-09-02 03:41:47| Chemicals - Topix.net

The regulatory agency overseeing Texas' oil and gas industry has determined that a series of small earthquakes in North Texas likely wasn't caused by drilling operations by an Exxon Mobil subsidiary. The preliminary findings mark the first decision by the Texas Railroad Commission since it was authorized last year to consider whether seismological activity was caused by injection wells, which store briny wastewater from hydraulic fracturing.

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Texas regulator clears oil and gas company of causing quakes

2015-09-01 21:15:39| Energy - Topix.net

A state inquiry has found that an oil and gas company's disposal well operations likely did not cause a series of North Texas earthquakes. Examiners with the Railroad Commission, Texas' oil and gas regulator, released preliminary findings Monday.

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2 injection wells shut down after Oklahoma quakes

2015-07-29 03:07:54| Energy - Topix.net

Oil and gas operators shut down two wastewater injection wells in northern Oklahoma on Tuesday and reduced operations at a third after several earthquakes centered in the town of Crescent rattled the state. Stephens Production and Devon Energy each voluntarily closed one well, and Stephens reduced operations at another well by 50 percent, Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Matt Skinner said.

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2 injection wells shut down after Oklahoma quakes

2015-07-29 02:17:19| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

Oil and gas operators shut down two wastewater injection wells in northern Oklahoma on Tuesday and reduced operations at a third after several earthquakes centered in the town of Crescent rattled the state Stephens Production and Devon Energy each voluntarily closed one well, and Stephens reduced operations at another well by 50 percent, Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Matt Skinner said. "In this case, we didn't have to issue a directive.

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In oil-friendly Oklahoma, Gov. Fallin moved slowly on 'awkward' issue of quakes

2015-07-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EnergyWire: As she knocked on the federal government's door for aid in the wake of a damaging earthquake in 2011, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) avoided talking about one aspect of the earthquake -- its cause. Too "awkward," said Fallin's communications director, Alex Weintz. "The problem is, some people are trying to blame hydraulic fracturing (a necessary process for extracting natural gas) for causing earthquakes," Weintz wrote in an email, vetoing mention of the earthquake at an energy conference. "So...

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