In the latest issue of Shale Play Water Management Magazine, EnergyMakers AG CEO Laura Capper reviews the necessary role of Underground Injection Control (UIC) wells for oil and gas production—and the capacity concerns that are emerging as a very real issue. As rig counts and production rates rise in prolific oil and gas regions like theRead 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
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
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
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