Fracking Earthquakes 2020

[Need4Camaro]

I completely have no dog in this thread as Im not even from Kansas but the topic looked interesting and I had to read it because I never heard of earthquakes in Kansas.. ...anyway I got a question though, do you have to be pretty close to the oil facility to feel it or are they felt a long way out?

[ocoilslick]

When OK and TX first had their first big oil boon, there were little earthquakes all the time. Same thing. Just relieving pressure on faults that are under nearly all of our feets.

[CrownVic95]

Originally Posted by KSinmyrearviewmirror

Brownback appoints panel to study recent earthquakes, fracking waste

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Calling it a “matter of public safety,” Gov. Sam Brownback has appointed a committee to study whether oil and gas activity is behind the recent spate of minor earthquakes in Kansas.

Expansion of the oil and gas recovery method known as “fracking” has coincided with a series of small quakes in areas that had long been seismically stable. Fracking doesn’t appear to cause the problem, but an increase in oil and gas production and disposal of waste fluids associated with fracking could be behind the recent temblors that have shaken south-central Kansas and northern Oklahoma, scientists said Monday.

“It’s not the fracking itself, it’s this re-injection of the fluids into formations that are considered safe to hold it,” said Don Blakeman, a geophysicist with the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. “It’s waste disposal.”

Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/news/article1...#storylink=cpy

One member of the Gov's panel was Rex Buchanan, interim director of the Kansas Geological Survey. Buchanan went on to be appointed director of KGS.

Gov Brownback quickly backtracked before members of the Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association, stating prior to the panel's assessment, that THE EARTHQUAKES ARE NOT RELATED TO FRACKING.

The last barrel of oil pumped out of Kansas will be the most valuable barrel ever pumped. Why not reserve it all until then? The Martians will show us how to do it without any further environmental degradation.

Because if everyone, everywhere takes that same position, this is your life....


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[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by ocoilslick

When OK and TX first had their first big oil boon, there were little earthquakes all the time. Same thing. Just relieving pressure on faults that are under nearly all of our feets.

In Oklahoma they did adjust the regs somewhat and since the oil field slowed down we aren't seeing the quakes like we did.

However, what is interesting is that most of the quakes we get/got are around the Nemaha ridge area that extends down into Oklahoma.

[leighland]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

I completely have no dog in this thread as Im not even from Kansas but the topic looked interesting and I had to read it because I never heard of earthquakes in Kansas.. ...anyway I got a question though, do you have to be pretty close to the oil facility to feel it or are they felt a long way out?

My Parents live in Wichita and the Fraking business is active 175 miles away in Tulsa OK

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by KSinmyrearviewmirror

Brownback appoints panel to study recent earthquakes, fracking waste

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Calling it a “matter of public safety,” Gov. Sam Brownback has appointed a committee to study whether oil and gas activity is behind the recent spate of minor earthquakes in Kansas.

Expansion of the oil and gas recovery method known as “fracking” has coincided with a series of small quakes in areas that had long been seismically stable. Fracking doesn’t appear to cause the problem, but an increase in oil and gas production and disposal of waste fluids associated with fracking could be behind the recent temblors that have shaken south-central Kansas and northern Oklahoma, scientists said Monday.

“It’s not the fracking itself, it’s this re-injection of the fluids into formations that are considered safe to hold it,” said Don Blakeman, a geophysicist with the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. “It’s waste disposal.”

Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/news/article1...#storylink=cpy

One member of the Gov's panel was Rex Buchanan, interim director of the Kansas Geological Survey. Buchanan went on to be appointed director of KGS.

Gov Brownback quickly backtracked before members of the Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association, stating prior to the panel's assessment, that THE EARTHQUAKES ARE NOT RELATED TO FRACKING.

The last barrel of oil pumped out of Kansas will be the most valuable barrel ever pumped. Why not reserve it all until then? The Martians will show us how to do it without any further environmental degradation.

Yes, it is mostly the wastewater injection of wastewater fluids into rock formations related to fracking. I wouldn't trust any of those operations if you have a private drilled well for household water supplies nearby...

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by leighland

My Parents live in Wichita and the Fraking business is active 175 miles away in Tulsa OK

Oh wow. Thats pretty insane.