While west Texas and the Permian Basin felt a 5.1 magnitude earthquake this week, New Mexico regulators dealt with the cancellation of 75 waste water injection wells they believe were tied to earthquakes in their state’s part of the Basin.
The New Mexico Oil Conservation division cancelled the wells along the state’s southern border with Texas as the state’s seismology experts cited a link between the earthquakes and the injection wells, something very similar to what Oklahoma researchers concluded several years ago during a rash of earthquakes also linked to the wells.
Next Mexico’s cancelled wells were in what is called the County Line Seismic Response Area and covers nearly 500 square miles in the Permian Basin, reported the publication Capital and Main.
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