Tom, The article suggests prohibiting Arbuckle injection wells and Payne injection wells are using the Arbuckle, so does that mean that the OCC may allow using the Arbuckle in some areas and not others? Thanks for your help.
EOR possible solution to OK earthquakes.
http://phys.org/news/2015-06-oklahoma-earthquakes-linked-oil-gas.html
Martha,
It Arbuckle should be allowed where the horizontal wells are in a formation that remains solid after fracking. The commission rules appear to be rubber stamped to who has the $$$'s.
That is only my opinion based on observation of the rulings.
Tom, You are right about the money, it’s always been that way. Thank you for the info.
GWT, Unfortunately, I’m now the age of a historian and you are correct. Evaporation ponds were used when the formations produced a small amount of water that could evaporate in a safe period of time. Now, the oil floats on top of the produced water, so there’s huge amounts of water that would require huge evaporation ponds which would not be beneficial. The injected water helps recharge the reservoirs which greatly improves production.
So, I guess I’ve been absent for a century or two. It seems to me when I was a kid, produced water was pumped out to an evaporation pond. Either I completely misunderstood this when I was a kid or somewhere along the line this practice changed. Perhaps it was determined to be unsafe as it could pollute the groundwater and/or endanger domestic animals or wildlife. Any historians around who can refresh my memory on this?
Thanks. I used to tag along with my Uncle when he maintained various oil wells in Payne County. I have some great memories of those summers. Glad to know I didn’t just completely misunderstand what was going on.
Did you get my msg Lisa?
Lynn, If a child can get cancer from a fracking well, we are all dead. LOL! Benzene which can cause cancer is released by some oil and gas wells, but Benzene is also used to make lubricants, dyes, detergents, drugs, and pesticides. Benzene gets in the environment from gasoline fumes by service stations, small engines, like lawnmowers, automobile exhaust, emissions from factories, waste water from some industries and cigarette smoke.
Lynn, All plastic products emit Benzene, so when we get into our cars on a hot summer day and drink from a plastic cup we are killing ourselves. Guess we’ll see the Stillwater plastic police next. LOL!
Is there any possibility that the City of Stillwater will have to rethink this? It seems to me that their restrictions are unreasonable.
Amen Jay! My dad worked as a ruffneck for 50 years and came home covered in oil every night. He breathed more natural gas than we burned in the cook stove and he never got cancer. I guess the she bears would rather rock their babies next to a nuclear power plant. They need to quick decide if they want their yards to glow in the dark or assist the Governor of OK, who just happens to be a mother, in helping the US become energy independent.
Hi I am new to the forum and am most grateful for all that I have learned from the posts. So in advance, forgive my ignorance! The wells in our section just began producing and I am unsure if they are storing or selling. If the production company stores oil rather then selling it, will the price they use for royalty payments be the price at the time of extraction or when it is sold? Also in reviewing our lease, the oil royalty payment does not directly state the royalty is from the gross proceeds received from the oil sold but rather “to deliver to the credit of lessor free of cost, in the pipe line to which it may connect well(s), the (our royalty percentage) part of all oil produced and saved from the leased premise”. However in the following paragraph the language states that the royalty from gas is derived from the gross proceeds of the gas sold. Is this common or should we be asking for clarification and an amendment to the lease?
Lisa, Under OK law, companies pay a royalty production payment price at the time production is sold. That’s why many companies are storing oil and waiting for a better price at the end of this year. Gross proceeds is most common.
Martha, that is exactly their point, and those other items are being regulated and banned for the same reason. When poisons begin showing up in our drinking water, mama bears will protect their young. I’m a mineral owner too, (Payne Co, Stephens, Garvin, etc.) but I personally know these “lobbyists” in Stillwater, and they are in it for the long haul. Jessica- probably not. It may take legal action next.
Lynn, Contamination of drinking water will not occur from fracking wells inside city limits alone, because the aquifers are under 90% of OK. Air quality surrounding O/G production is already heavily monitored and it is very hard to have outdoor concentrations that violate NIOSH standards. Noise pollution is about all the unknowledgeable she bears have to support their position. If they need to educate themselves before trying to cause a panic.
http://www.deq.state.ok.us/wqdnew/groundwater/aquifer_maps.html
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/eiip/techreport/volume02/ii10.pdf
http://www.ok.gov/governor/documents/Governor%20Fallin’s%20Energy%20Plan%20-%20Jan%202012.pdf
You are beating up the messenger. This is what is happening. Done deal. Just posted it for your information. Jeez.
Sorry Lynn. Please except my humble apology. Thought you were on their side with your comment about when poisons start showing up the drinking water. OK and the US is working very hard to make us independent of the Middle East where they are killing all Christians. These women lobbyists are highly unknowledgeable and extremely hostile. Our entire US way of life is in danger. It’s a lot worse than they realize. The US absolutely must become energy independent before devastating war breaks out in the Middle East and ISIS has a chance to take over the oil fields. I’m not trying to panic anyone, but this danger is very real.