New Lawsuit Claims 'Catastrophic Impacts' From Permian Basin Injection Wells
A Permian Basin landowner alleges in a lawsuit that saltwater injection wells contributed to well blow-outs that caused extensive pollution on his property.
Billy Wayne Meister Jr. filed the lawsuit in December in Crane County, Texas, district court. Meister alleges that the eight oil and gas companies named as defendants have failed to properly operate produced water injection wells, and also failed to properly plug old oil wells, and then abandoned them. The lawsuit alleges that these failures have led to “catastrophic impacts” on his property.
Produced water, also known as brine or saltwater, is a waste product of oil and gas drilling that contains high levels of chlorides and other harmful constituents. It is typically injected deep underground into disposal wells.
In January 2022, a geyser of produced water erupted through an old well on Meister’s property in Crane County. It took months to control and plug. He subsequently documented “fissures” in the land through which produced water was flowing from underground.
The lawsuit alleges that injection wells created an over-pressurized plume of produced water under the ranch. The pressurized wastewater has found conduits to flow to the surface through old wellbores that were previously plugged and abandoned, the lawsuit claims.
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