High Drive Network recently covered the upcoming release to our now-released Disposal Well Risk Report. Join us as Phillip Jefferson (founder of UH Energy Coalition) and and the High Drive Network as we take a “sneak peak” into findings from our disposal well study and discuss: Common misperceptions related to Seismicity, Disposal well Health,Read more
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Check out the great summary article, Maintaining Injectivity of Disposal Wells: From Water Quality to Formation Permeability, in the JPT – which dives into injectivity issues for Disposal Wells. Poor water quality characteristics in injectate can jeopardize injectivity in even high-quality formations by rapidly decreasing permeability. The Saudi Aramco authors of this paper offer general guidelinesRead more
It seems as if seismologists are drowning in data amidst an ocean of seismic noise. Now, researchers at Harvard, MIT, and Virginia’s Gram Labs are leveraging advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to quiet down the noise and help detect and more accurately locate induced earthquakes. Their new technology offering known as ConvNetQuake is a neural network specifically designed to detectRead more
EnergyMakers AG’s Underground Injection and Seismicity Operational Risk Report does a deep dive into induced seismicity—and how fluid injection from oilfield activities and wastewater disposal activities might induce felt earthquakes in certain geologic conditions. According to Myths and Facts by J.L. Rubinstein (USGS) and A.B. Mahani (Geological Survey of Canada), there are four major ways thatRead more
It turns out produced water behaves differently in pipelines, and what we know about safely transporting natural gas and oil may need to be tweaked to better manage midstream produced water infrastructure. The State of North Dakota and the Energy and Environmental Research Center suggests that the application of Computational Pipeline Monitoring (CPM) to anRead more
According to research at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, decades of anthropogenic activities (mining, groundwater extraction, hydrocarbon production), together with naturally occurring settlement due to sediment loading and glacial isostatic adjustments, have destabilized a 4,000-square mile swath of West Texas—leading to an increased rate of sinkhole formation and expansion. Whereas the naturally occurring subsidence onRead more
We are big fans of rapid pipeline adoption for oilfield water handling, and new steel tariffs stand to affect pipeline infrastructure planning and costs – but the jury is still out as to what degree, and whether exemptions may apply. President Trump’s plan to impose a 25% tariff on raw and finished steel products haveRead more
Sometimes last is best! Because our analysis of New Mexico Underground Injection Disposal Well and Formation Health Risk was the last region for us to profile in our Industry Report, we have the benefit of capturing the latest insights through year-end 2017 in our New Mexico chapter. Although the majority of Class II injected wellRead more
David Wethe, energy reporter for Bloomberg News, always does great coverage on oil-patch issues, especially water and environmental topics. In his recent article, Forget Oil, Water Is New Ticket for Pipeline Growth in Texas, we were cited for our work in midstream analytical space; looking at seismicity impacts, disposal well constraints, and logical pathways for high capacity pipelines –Read more
Hart Energy recently published some nice take-aways from their well-attended DUG Permian Water Management Conference in Fort Worth. Laura Capper, President of EnergyMakers Advisory Group, chimed in on seismicity, and causal factors associated with Class II Disposal Well Operations, and shared some of the general findings from our upcoming market study on UIC Injection and Seismicity RiskRead more