A major player in the oil and gas industry on Wednesday joined the debate over whether Texas earthquakes are being caused by injection wells with a resounding “no,” at least in one case.
Representatives of Exxon Mobil subsidiary XTO Energy Inc. blame nature for a series of earthquakes that struck the towns of Azle and Reno, northwest of Fort Worth, in 2013 and 2014. They told Texas Railroad Commission examiners in Austin on Wednesday that their wastewater injection well, built close to a faultline, did not trigger the temblors.
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