Earthquakes have been felt all over Logan County over with the southern portion collecting a majority of the rattlers. On Monday, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission announced a plan to reduce oil and gas wastewater disposal well volume in the area.
Along with northern Oklahoma County, the plan calls for operators to have a 60 day period during which volume will be reduced 38 percent, or about 3.4 million barrels under the 2014 total. Such a reduction will bring total volume for the area to a level under the 2012 total by about 2.4 million barrels.
“I fully support going forward with a plan based on volume cuts, and am pleased to see a real beginning in that regard. This is an issue completely outside the scope of the experience of not only this agency, but all our partner agencies and stakeholders as well,” Commissioner Dana Murphy said in a release.
“There was a time when the scientific, legal, policy and other concerns related to this issue had to first be carefully researched and debated in order to provide a valid framework for such action. That time is over. Based on the research and analysis of the data compiled, we must continue to take progressive steps, and do so as quickly as possible as part of the continuing efforts to resolve this complex and challenging issue.”
The area has registered 359 earthquakes in 2014 and 253 as of July 31, 2015. Many believe behind the earthquakes are due to hydraulic fracturing leading to waste water disposal.
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