This blog post by USGS from November 9th provides some background on the swarm of earthquakes that has occurred in Oklahoma. More in a recent news article on the New York Times [1].
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/us/oklahoma-continues-string-of-recent-mild-earthquakes.html
More at USGS.
The Oklahoma Geological Survey has published maps and data bases that summarize natural gas drilling activity in the Woodford Shale.
More at Oklahoma Geological Survey.
This article on recent earthquakes in Oklahoma includes ideas of what might be causing them from geologists at Purdue University Northwestern University and the Oklahoma Geological Survey. There is no strong evidence that they are being caused by hydr…
More at Christian Science Monitor.
In this video, Dr. Bryan Tapp, a structural geologist at the University of Oklahoma explains what he believes caused Saturday’s M5.6 earthquake in Oklahoma – it wasn’t hydraulic fracturing.
More at News on 6.
The Marshall University Center for Business and Economic Research has prepared: Taxation of Natural Gas: A Comparative Analysis. This publication reviews the many methods of taxing natural gas 19 different states. You might be surprised at how many …
More at Marshall University Center for Business and Economic Research.
Several oil and gas companies are producing oil from horizontal wells drilled into the Mississippi Lime, a permeable limestone beneath the Kansas-Oklahoma state boundary.
More at Tulsa World.
Chesapeake Energy has a natural gas well in western Oklahoma that has a cumulative production of 60 billion cubic feet since December 2002. It still yields about 8 million cubic feet of gas per day.
The Energy Information Administration has published a map that shows the increase in wet natural gas proved reserves by state for 2008-2009. There were huge increases for the states with large shale gas plays such as Marcellus Shale, Haynesville Shale, Fayetteville Shale, Eagle Ford Shale and the Barnett Shale.
Marathon Oil Corporation intends to move its attention from the Bakken Shale of North Dakota to the Woodford Shale of Oklahoma. They believe that the drilling the Woodford provides a better return. More at Reuters.
