In a published decision filed September 6, 2024, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 5) reversed the trial court’s judgment granting a writ of mandate and upheld the use of CEQA’s Class 1 ...

The brine-laden water produced during oil and gas extraction operations in the U.S. Permian Basin poses an operational ...

Attorneys for the city of Midland — the nation’s shale oil capital — made an unusual request to regulators this year: Could they please be allowed to challenge drilling permits? The city isn’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An oil well adjacent to the Red Bluff Reservoir in Reeves County on Feb. 24, 2020. NGL Water Solutions Permian has proposed ...

Officials from numerous local governments and water boards are set to gather Wednesday evening in a combined effort to call ...

The state’s oil and gas regulatory agency last month suspended nearly two dozen permits that let companies inject saltwater water into the ground, a routine industry practice that regulators said has ...

Fracking wastewater, injected underground for permanent disposal, traveled 12 miles through geological faults before bursting to the surface through a previously plugged West Texas oil well in 2022, ...

Iskandia Operating Inc. v. SWEPI, LP d/b/a Shell Western E & P reversed summary judgment for the defendant in a subsurface trespass claim involving injection of large amounts of produced water.

Hundreds of people watch as journalist Justin Nobel discusses the history of injection well legislation on Tuesday evening at Washington State College of Ohio. (Photo by Gwen Sour) MARIETTA – ...

A waterflood pressurizes the reservoir and sweeps oil toward producers by injecting treated water into designated injection wells. It is the workhorse of secondary recovery, extending plateau rates, ...

Officials with numerous local governments and water boards will joining in an unprecedented, combined effort to call for a moratorium on injection wells.