(Reuters) - Texas has seen surging interest from companies ... "There is more than 3,000 feet of confining rock layers above the sequestration zone to securely contain the CO2." ...
Researchers at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics found that seamount collisions with subduction zones might influence earthquake activity.
Compared to neighboring Texas, earthquakes are more of a rarity in ... on the Richter's scale shook the Bayou State, according to maps from the U.S Geological Survey. A cluster of quakes shook ...
But pumping CO2 into the ground could exacerbate earthquakes and well blowouts already happening in the Permian Basin as Texas struggles to manage wastewater disposal, potentially undermining ...