Saltwater Disposal Wells: How Many, and Where to Find Them
How many saltwater disposal wells seven states report, why the disposal and enhanced recovery split is not comparable between them, and where the records live.
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Oklahoma Oil and Gas
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission regulates oil and gas wells in the state and keeps its records across several tools, including its well data finder and imaging system. These posts explain what each one covers and how to find a well in them.
Oklahoma is also where the link between oil and gas wastewater and earthquakes is best documented: the USGS attributes most of the state's earthquakes to wastewater disposal, not to hydraulic fracturing. The earthquake posts map that record against the disposal wells.
The OCC posts walk through searching by operator, county, well name or API number, and what gas composition and statewide views add to a single well record. The disposal wells behind the earthquake record are covered in the well data hub, alongside injection wells in other states.
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Oil Field Map: How to Find Any Named Field's Wells
An oil field is one state agency's label, not a national object. What a field name means in the well records, and how to map one in Texas, Colorado, or Wyoming.
Oklahoma Earthquake Map: 28,000 Events and What Drives Them
Where Oklahoma's earthquakes cluster, how the 2009 surge rose and fell, and what USGS attributes it to. Map every event beside the injection wells.
UIC Well Classes: Class II, Class VI, and Where to Look
What a UIC well is, how EPA's six injection well classes differ, why Class II dominates and Class VI carries carbon storage, and where records live.
OCC Well Data Finder, Mapped: Oklahoma Wells and Gas Data
OCC splits Oklahoma well records across the Well Data Finder, RBDMS and imaging. See 456,000 wells on one map, with USGS gas composition where sampled.