The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) will begin adding additional requirements to new disposal
well permits in the Permian Basin to assist the agency and industry in monitoring and responding to
injection and reservoir conditions that may be conducive to induced seismicity.
The new permit conditions for monitoring and reporting will require certain new disposal wells to be
equipped and operated with a bottomhole pressure monitoring gauge. These permit conditions will
apply to:
(1) all new “deep”1 disposal wells in the Permian Basin2, and
(2) all new “shallow”3 disposal wells in the Permian Basin that are within an area designated
by the RRC as a Seismic Response Area (SRA).
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The permit language will require the operator of the well to report daily injection data monthly. This will
include the following parameters:
- Maximum surface injection pressure
- Average surface injection pressure
- Maximum bottomhole injection pressure
- Average bottomhole injection pressure
- Injection volume
- Maximum injection rate
- Average fluid density
This information will be available to industry, academia, the public and RRC staff via the Bureau of
Economic Geology’s (BEG) TexNet Injection Volume Reporting Tool available at https://injection.texnet.beg.utexas.edu/.
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