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The Permian Pressure Cooker: Shallow Injection Interval Pressure and the Produced Water Squeeze
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2011, Oklahoma shook from the largest recorded earthquake at the time, a magnitude 5.7 event east of Oklahoma City. The event was one of many in a series of induced seismicity episodes inflicting this area of the state. The culprit – produced water injection into the Arbuckle formation. The Arbuckle formation, a Cambrian-Ordovician aged carbonate group, has significant porosity…
News Cycle Confusion – Examining What Comes Next
Reading Time: 3 minutes What a way to round out the quarter. The B3 team is preparing for our third annual Ripple Effects Summit and as we contemplate our
Unearthing the Legal Debate: Who Owns Pore Space for Carbon Capture and Storage?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Looking to stake your claim on a little piece of Earth? How about the unoccupied pore spaces within rock formations? As carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) gains steam, the ownership of pore space…
The Rising Cost of Pore Space Congestion
Reading Time: 3 minutes As I’m sitting down to write this, watching snow fall over my family’s cattle operation in southwest Montana (my deadline for this post is a great excuse for why I ‘can’t’ go out in the storm to move cows). This winter season has been a rough one for ranchers in the West. First no snow, no moisture, then way too much. The result: huge concerns about…
Carbon Capture and Storage – What the Perils of Produced Water Disposal Can Teach Us
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Permian Basin finished 2022 with a shake rather than a bang. On December 12th, Midland Texas shook from a magnitude (M) 5.2 earthquake originating approximately 10 miles north of the city. Seismic events are not uncommon in the Permian Basin, events have been increasing in magnitude and frequency in recent years…
Delaware Basin Interstate Water – Industry Musings on Cross Border Water Logistics
Reading Time: 5 minutes Take a drive on U.S. Highway 285 southeast from Carlsbad, N.M., heading to Pecos in West Texas and you’ll be driving atop a portion of the largest proven oil reserves in the United States. Along the drive, much of the scenery will look the same. Drilling rigs are numerous and tower high above thinly rooted desert shrubs. Above-ground pipeline and power line easements….
2023: Making Measurement Matter
Reading Time: 2 minutes As a busy 2022 wound down, I finally had time to read some of the more interesting ‘things to watch for in 2023’ thought pieces sitting in my inbox. Continued capital discipline as the key indicator of good governance; seismicity; China-India-Russia in the global crude market; ESG is not dead, just changing…
Oilfield H2O Wyoming Data is Live!
Reading Time: 2 minutes B3 Insight’s comprehensive water data offering for Wyoming is a unique, first of its kind dataset and integrates data for injection wells, production sites, water rights and land parcels in addition to many water management layers…
Increased Seismic Activity in the Delaware Basin Brings National Scrutiny to Wastewater Disposal Practices
Reading Time: 6 minutes A 5.4M earthquake was recorded in Reeves County on November 16, 23 miles southeast of Mentone, TX, within the North Culberson-Reeves 4.5km Seismicity Response Area (SRA) boundary. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) this is the strongest earthquake to occur in Texas since 1995, and is about six miles from the 4.9M event that occurred on March 26, 2020…