Earthquake issue gets our attention

The Midland earthquake issue got the attention of our collective community on Monday at about 10:05 p.m.

That was when most of our city was literally shaken for a few seconds by a 3.7-magnitude earthquake that the USGS said occurred about 10 miles northwest of the city.

This is a big deal. Nothing wrong with that. So it was great to see two things happen this week. First, the Texas Railroad Commission said Wednesday that seismologists and their staff moved quickly to investigate the event.

The agency said in a statement that staff will continue to work with operators in the region as staff collect data and identify additional measures that may be appropriate.

Second, Ben Shepherd, of the Permian Basin Oil Association, told a Telegram reporter that it’s in the PBPA’s and the best interest of the community to get this right.

Shepherd reminded Telegram that PBPA members are also members of the community and are “not interested in anything other than improving the way we do business”. He said it had been this way for decades.

Midlanders should appreciate the desire of the RRC and the PBPA to be more proactive in this area. We certainly don’t need to shift the Midland area to central Oklahoma, where earthquakes occur at two to four times the rate in and around Midland and have caused structural damage.

We also don’t need Midland turning to far west Texas, where there have been 19 earthquakes in the past seven days (including a magnitude 4.2 on Wednesday) and 1,044 in the past 365 days. In fact, the number of earthquakes in the country’s New Earthquake Alley (Northwest of Pecos) is about two to three times the number that occurred in Los Angeles or San Francisco during the same time period.

Let me be clear here. Nobody is talking about restricting drilling here or about other safeguards that could disrupt the industry. Oil is our life’s blood, and there’s still a lot to learn about what’s going on. We also know that there seem to be issues with the discharge of salt water, and we’re not talking about it to say that there may be a need to re-volume and pressure the water we’re pumping miles into the ground.

We know that there are clusters of earthquakes occurring in a relatively small area outside the city limits, near the intersection of State Highway 349 and the Kraddick Highway – 81 earthquakes this year (as of Wednesday).

We also know — based on Caitlin Randle reporting in Thursday’s release — that there are about 20 disposal wells near the earthquake cluster and dozens more in the surrounding area, according to data available in the Texas Railroad Commission’s GIS Viewer.

We shouldn’t need a 3.7 magnitude earthquake to tell us there’s a seismic problem in the Midland. But the elephant is now so prominent in the room, it’s absurd that Midlanders begin calling insurance agents to inquire about the cost of earthquake-related policies.

Thanks to the Railways and the PBPA for giving this matter due consideration.

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