Magnitude 4.5 right outside of Midland tonight. Thoughts on how this will affect the future of the Permian?
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Not an earthquake. Just me in bed with your wife.
Do you think this will effect layoffs, or do you just use this site like Snapchat?
There are scores of ghost towns in the US that were built solely around an oil bo-m, then were abandoned once the bo-m died. It's inevitable Midland will turn out this way. There is absolutely no reason for Midland to exist except for O&G.
Nothing gets a seismologist more fired up than a squiggly line. The trouble is one squiggly line is not the same as another so it’s not an exact science, far from it. Empty vessels make make the loudest sound usually decides which theory is right.
The epicenter was posted. Who has wells landed nearby? Any around 23,000 feet? There's your smoking g-n.
Probably not going to help it, but I don’t see it impacting it too much. If it it’s tied to oil and gas production which no one will be able to prove I don’t see it changing too much. I mean who in the area is going to fight for tighter regulations on producing unconventional. It benefits and area, if they said no more unconventional at all it would crush the area and most of the jobs in it. Essentially it would turn the city back into what it was 20 years ago.
Early in my career ~20 yrs ago I went to Midland. I was out there for a few weeks and we stayed on Wall st close to a place called The Bar. You didn’t see anyone else. I mean we checked in at the hotel there was a person there and we went to eat and drink at the saloon but outside of the people serving us there was maybe 3 other people in the place. You ask why did we go to this place, well it was the only place that was open. At night you literally did not see a car on the Street in that area. During the day there was hardly any traffic, it was the weirdest feeling i had ever felt in a city. There were all these places and building, but no people. It seemed post apocalyptic.
Are these the best scientific answers you can come up with. What about electro-magnetic propagation theory or the architecture of rock geometry?
Good thing it only effected midland.
If midland was was closer to another city someone else may have known about it
all the extraction have left the ground below unstable
more to come
More natural fractures, so better production?
Who cares.