The director of the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission will ask his board to consider a "permanent moratorium" on disposal wells in an 1,150 square mile region in the Fayetteville Shale play.
A temporary moratorium on the disposal wells has been in place since January 26, 2011, when a number of inquiries were made to determine if there was a correlation between the wells and earthquakes in the region.
In an announcement made public today (June 21), agency director Lawrence Bengal said that an initial investigation conducted by the Arkansas Geological Survey and the Center for Earthquake Research and Information "has reached a point to support the recommendation of a regulatory response."
Bengal said that he will ask commissioners to consider a permanent moratorium area at the oil and gas commission's meeting in July. He emphasized that there was still "no evidence or indication that the seismic activity is related to the drilling or completion (including fracture stimulation) of Fayetteville Shale production wells in the Guy-Greenbrier, Arkansas area."
Source: The City Wire
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