Oil wells in the “Illinois Basin” the day after the small earthquake
One of our correspondents has filmed video of oil wells near his home in rural Wayne County, several miles south of where the small 2.7 was epicentered late Monday night. The point of filming this was not what you can see, but what you can HEAR. Our correspondent is familiar with how oil wells and the pumpjacks on them work, and has noticed that when we have seismic activity in the Illinois Basin, the wells “pull hard.” This is what you hear when the rhythmic ‘tickticktick’ of the well slows down:
The second video is of a deeper well that has its perforations in the O’Hara and McCloskey streams and is drilled to about 3800 feet:
So here you have it….our correspondent said that up to 20 wells have been shut down since they began pulling so hard. Hopefully we’ll have an update….or maybe a shaker. One can never tell.
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Posted by Jack Howser
on Sep 15 2011. Filed under Breaking, Illinois.
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We don’t want no more shakers but hopefully this will prove successful in at least one way of indentifying an earthquake hours or possibly days before it occurs.
Cool videos!
Glad you liked the videos. By the way the nearest of any sort of update I can give is that the wells seemed to line out as in (not struggle) then they got to struggling again then back to not so bad. Each time somewhere in the New Madrid zone we had a rumbler. Today no action has been recorded, but the wells are struggling at extreme levels. This is not a forecast to say its going to be a big one but just saying it is likely somewhere in the midwest a quake will likely occur…how strong and just where is unknown. I just listen and well it just happens to be following the same trail. Some of the quakes more recently have amounted to strengths of 1.0-3.6 but as we all remember the bigger trembler back in April of 08 it was over a 5 and the wells did the same thing until the last aftershock of that event was done. Now here we are a little over 3 yrs later and more of the same scenarios are occuring, just not as strong of a quake…yet. This method is not proven but is definately being looked into by several as a possible way of detecting when a trembler could occur.
Another small quake (2.1) struck in Arkansas at about 4:19 today just for the record. Its on USGS.gov if anyone wants to look at the maps and see.