Gas injection may have triggered earthquakes in the Cogdell oil field, Texas

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 47, 2013, Pages 18786-18791

  Gan, Wei ^a,b   Frohlich, Cliff ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIL; PETROLEUM; WATER;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; GAS; INJECTION; OIL FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; UNITED STATES;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FLUID INJECTION; TRIGGERED SEISMICITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; EARTHQUAKES; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; GASES; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; TEXAS;

EID: 84888084693     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1311316110     Document Type: Article

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