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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Fracking and quakes news updates


Near Injection Wells, Many Quakes Go Unfelt
New York Times (blog)
A series of small earthquakes made Halloween of 2008 an unusually scary one for people in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. While it has long been theorized that underground injections of fluids from oil and gas development operations could decrease friction ...

Minor earthquakes seen near Texas injection wells: study
Chicago Tribune
His study did not examine any possible link between earthquakes and hydraulic fracturing - commonly called fracking - where water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground at high pressure to break up rock formations that contain oil and natural gas.
'Fracking' For Natural Gas Is Linked With Earthquakes
WOUB
Hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. “fracking”) recovery techniques for oil and natural gas are a controversial business. The practice—in which a mix of water, sand and chemicals is injected deep into bedrock at high pressure to create fractures, allowing gas and oil to ...

Fracking linked to small earthquakes
TG Daily
None of the quakes identified in the two-year study was strong enough to pose a danger to the public. "You can't prove that any one earthquake was caused by an injection well," says senior research scientist Cliff Frohlich. "But it's obvious that wells are ...

Blackpool rocked: how fracking triggers quakes
Sydney Morning Herald
The "fracking" process involves injecting large volumes of water and chemicals underground to bring methane to the surface. It has long been associated with causing small underground tremors and occasionally with earthquakes that are noticed on the ...
Fracking Earthquakes: Injection Practice Linked to Scores of Tremors
LiveScience.com
Earthquakes triggered by fluids injected deep underground, such as during the controversial practice of fracking, may be more common than previously thought, a new study suggests. Fluid injections into Earth are not uncommon. For instance, in hydraulic ...
Chesapeake Energy: Barnett Shale Earthquakes Related To Fracking?
ValueWalk
A study authored by Cliff Frolich of the University of Texas at Austin, has been looking into the quakes. Frolich told sources in a phone interview, “Drilling never causes earthquakes. Fracking almost never causes earthquakes….While there are probably ...

Study suggests quakes linked to fracking
UPI.com
Workers continue removing equipment following Halliburton's drilling completion at a water storage facility at the Niobrara oil shale formation in Weld County, North eastern Colorado on May 30, 2012. Gas and oil companies are using large amounts of water ...»

Human-Triggered Earthquakes Surprisingly Common
Discovery News
In fact, found a new study, small earthquakes are more common than expected near wells that are used for injecting waste fluids from fracking, as well as from other processes, including oil extraction and geothermal energy production. It's not the drilling into ..
How Fracking Disposal Wells Are Causing Earthquakes in Dallas-Fort Worth
StateImpact Texas
And a new study by a Univeristy of Texas seismologist says that the wells used to dispose of fracking waste water are responsible. What's more, there have been more than eight times as many earthquakes in the area than previously thought. The rapid ...

Man Made Fracking Earthquakes Confirmed In Texas Study
Man Made Fracking Earthquakes Confirmed In Texas Study. Most earthquakes in the Barnett Shale region of north Texas occur within a few miles of one or more ...
nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/.../man-made-fracki...
Blackpool rocked: how fracking triggers quakes
Hydraulic fracturing did cause many minor tremors, but almost all would not be felt by humans on the surface, he said. The Australian Petroleum Production and ...
www.allvoices.com/.../12734875-blackpool-rocked-how-frack...
  
Another study finds fracking wastewater wells make earthquakes more
Wastewater injection wells that accompany natural gas “fracking” sties are linked to an increase in the probability of earthquakes, according to a University of ...
www.rawstory.com/.../another-study-finds-fracking-wastewate...
Is fracking linked to earthquakes? Yeah, kinda, sorta, probably | Grist
Injection wells used to dispose of fracking wastewater may be correlated with an uptick in earthquakes, according to a researcher at the University of Texas at ...
grist.org/.../is-fracking-linked-to-earthquakes-yeah-kinda-sorta...
Study: Quakes linked to fracking? - Disaster News Network
There might be a link between seismic activity and fracking for oil and gas, a research study published this week indicates. The two-year inquiry by the University ...
www.disasternews.net/news/article.php?articleid=4939
Fracking' for Natural Gas Is Linked With Earthquakes | Surprising ...
By Joseph Stromberg
A new study finds a correlation between the underground injection of waste fluids from fracking and dozens of small earthquakes.
Surprising Science







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