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Explore a comprehensive lecture by Peter Hennings, Research Professor at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, examining the relationship between fluid injection and induced seismicity in Texas. Discover how the petroleum industry's injection of over 50 billion barrels of produced wastewater over the past 15 years has created a "grand geomechanical experiment" in the U.S. mid-continent and Permian Basin region. Learn about the findings from the Bureau's Center for Injection and Seismicity Research, now in its 10th year, which has conducted numerous integrated mechanistic studies across problematic areas of injection-induced seismicity in Texas. Understand why Texas serves as an "exquisite laboratory" for studying anthropogenic fault rupture and seismicity, and explore the remaining questions that will drive future research in this field.
