{"id":20234,"date":"2014-05-30T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T16:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=20234"},"modified":"2014-05-30T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T16:48:15","slug":"to-get-permit-in-earthquake-zone-disposal-well-operator-agrees-to-extra-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2014\/05\/30\/to-get-permit-in-earthquake-zone-disposal-well-operator-agrees-to-extra-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"To Get Permit in Earthquake Zone, Disposal Well Operator Agrees to Extra Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An oil company seeking to build a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/topic\/earthquakes-2\/\">disposal well<\/a> in earthquake-prone Logan County has agreed to record additional pressure and volume measurements to get a permit from the state&#8217;s oil and gas regulator.<\/p><p>The Oklahoma Corporation Commission on Thursday voted 2-0 to approve the disposal well for Kansas-based Slawson Exploration. Commissioner Dana Murphy abstained from the vote &#8220;saying she wanted to wait until more seismic data was available,&#8221; <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/injection-well-operator-in-logan-county-earthquake-zone-agrees-to-additional-monitoring\/article\/4864659\">Paul Monies reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Slawson agreed to record daily pressure and volume rates on the disposal well. It also will run a bottom-hole pressure test prior to injection and every 60 days for up to six months.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\">\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.41176470588235%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/1175483-20140529170237655.html?embed=true&responsive=false&sidebar=false\" title=\"Slawson - OCC Order (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><p>The Corporation Commission recently agreed to adopt new rules requiring disposal operators to record and submit more-frequent well data, which geophysicists say is key to researching earthquakes that might be triggered by waste fluid injection into disposal wells.<\/p><p>Oklahoma has experienced an exponential increase in earthquakes, and a half-dozen peer-reviewed papers from federal and university scientists <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2014\/03\/10\/oklahomas-largest-earthquake-potentially-triggered-by-smaller-disposal-well-quake-new-study-suggests\/\">have linked quakes to disposal wells<\/a>, which oil and gas companies use to dispose of toxic fluid from fracking and other types of drilling.<\/p><p>The Corporation Commission can administratively approve disposal well permits \u2014 a<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2014\/04\/17\/oklahoma-oil-and-gas-regulator-uses-red-tape-not-rules-to-manage-disposal-wells-in-earthquake-country\/\"> bureaucratic shortcut<\/a> most oil and gas companies prefer \u2014 but agency officials in April told StateImpact they would no longer administratively approve such permits for earthquake-prone areas without additional information from the applicant.<\/p><p>Slawson Exploration&#8217;s permit was not administratively approved &#8220;due to recent seismicity activity&#8221; near the proposed well. Instead, the permit was considered at a full hearing, where the commission approved a permit after the company agreed to additional monitoring terms.<\/p><p>The Corporation Commission can order Slawson Exploration to stop injecting if earthquake activity in the area increases, according to the order, which is embedded above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oil company seeking to build a disposal well in earthquake-prone Logan County has agreed to record additional pressure and volume measurements to get a permit from the state&#8217;s oil and gas regulator.The Oklahoma Corporation Commission on Thursday voted 2-0 to approve the disposal well for Kansas-based Slawson Exploration. Commissioner Dana Murphy abstained from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[390,489,500],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20234"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20247,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20234\/revisions\/20247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}