OIL AND GAS INDUSTRIALIZATION OF IDAHO
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"...Illegal emissions of sulfur dioxide in one of the world’s richest oil fields are likely pushing pollution levels past limits set in the Clean Air Act & making people sick. ...State environmental regulators apparently have shown little interest in measuring exactly how much air pollution is clouding the Permian." - IT ALL ADDS UP
Report: Oil and Gas Producers May Be Pushing the Permian Basin Past Federal Air Quality Limits
Sulfur dioxide levels in the vast West Texas region may be hitting dangerous levels. Meanwhile, the state is hardly bothering to monitor the pollutant.This is what happens when gas/oil companies are bankrupt - why regulation jurisdictions need to ensure companies operating there are -highly- bonded:
"Trident does not have the funds to operate its infrastructure or enter into creditor protection. As a result, they have decided to walk away, leaving more than 4,400 licensed sites, many of them active, without an operator"... And when the -wells- fail, too bad for the local people and jurisdictions!
oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Canadian-Oil-Driller-Abruptly-Shuts-Down-Abandons-4700...
Canadian Oil Driller Abruptly Shuts Down, Abandons 4,700 Wells | OilPrice.com
A junior Canadian gas E&P company has shut down abruptly, leaving as many as 4,700 wells behind"Deep fluid injections -- greater than one kilometer deep -- are known to be associated with enhanced seismic activity -- often thought to be limited to the areas of fluid diffusion. Yet the study...tests and strongly supports the hypothesis that fluid injections are causing potentially damaging earthquakes further afield by the slow slip of pre-existing fault fracture networks, in domino-like fashion." - so that over time, the danger builds... just as with the danger of leaking/rupturing well bores (in -any- type of oil/gas drilling) as the wells age...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190502143353.htm
RE Alta Mesa, the struggling parent company of our Idaho players: "Two years ago, investors handed veteran oilman Jim Hackett a $1 billion check and sent him to seek riches in shale drilling. Today, the company he founded with their money, Alta Mesa Resources Inc., has a market value of about $43 million and is teetering on financial ruin—one of the more spectacular failures met chasing the next big thing in the American shale boom." (Beware the recent switcheroo from 'AM Idaho' to 'High Mesa Services' - same folks, TX address, & M.O.)
www.oilandgas360.com/investors-handed-an-oilman-a-blank-check-company-heres-how-it-turned-out/
Investors Handed an Oilman a ‘Blank Check’ Company. Here’s How It Turned Out. - Oil & Gas 360
Two years ago, investors handed veteran oilman Jim Hackett a $1 billion check and sent him to seek riches in shale drilling.Earthquakes from fracking, not injection wells:
"'The [fracking] seismic signature when you look at it in a sort of timeline shows these bursts of seismicity, hundreds or sometimes thousands of events over a couple of days or weeks, and then it's quiet again. You don't tend to see that pattern with wastewater disposal...'" They also noticed that "the depth of the well is more tied to likelihood of seismicity than we expected" - deeper = 'overpressured' if buried under many rock layers.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190426110601.htm
Studies link earthquakes to fracking in the Central and Eastern US
Small earthquakes in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Texas can be linked to hydraulic fracturing wells in those regions, according to researchers.