Texas sinkholes: oil and gas drilling increases threat, scientists warn

[yortsed snacilbuper]

According to geophysicists from Southern Methodist University, the ground is rising and falling in a region that has been “punctured like a pin cushion with oil wells and injection wells since the 1940s”.

There were nearly 297,000 oil wells in Texas as of last month, according to the state regulator. Many are in the Permian Basin, described in a Bloomberg article last September as the “world’s hottest oil patch”.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-sinkholes-oil-and-gas-drilling-increases-threat-scientists-warn/ar-BBKLFPn?ocid=spartanntp

[MagickMuffin]

1. I've been saying for a while now that Fort Worth is ripe for a Major Sinkhole

I couldn't find the number of wells in Tarrant County, but there are a lot of them!


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http://www.naturalgasintel.com/topics/145-barnett-shale

[Stallion]

2. Classic: Lee Marvin in No-Name City(Paint Your Wagon)