2025 Propublica: Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It
Toxic water from a purge killed about two dozen cattle on a ranch near Fort Cobb Lake in September. Screenshot of News9.com by ProPublica
Rapid declines from horizontal wells require more drilling to sustain production by USEIA, Nov 6, 2025
As U.S. crude oil and natural gas production have increased, so has the volume of production declines from existing wells. To offset the increasing declines, operators today must bring on new wells to sustain or increase production levels.
Between 2010 and 2024, hydrocarbon production from new wells in the Lower 48 states (L48) generally offset and exceeded declining production from existing wells. Because production from oil and natural gas wells declines over time as reservoir pressure decreases, new wells are required to maintain the same production level.
The increasing number of horizontal wells has contributed to this trend because horizontal wells exhibit higher decline rates than vertical wells.
The rapid decline rates in horizontal wells are contributing to the trend described above with large numbers of new wells required to maintain or increase production levels.
And then there’s the super stupid AER allowing shit-scheister-walk-from-clean-up Persist Oil and Gas Inc. to horizontally frac already frac’d to shit Rosebud, Alberta:
