OK Energy Today

October 1, 2025

Saltwater leaking into a creek might have been what caused the deaths of 25 head of cattle earlier this month in Caddo County, Oklahoma.

Corporation Commission investigators discovered the saltwater was purging into Five Mile Creek from a site two miles upstream from the farmer’s livestock. The Commission asked two oil-and-gas operators close to the purge “to shut in their gas wells” on September 16, reported the Southwest Ledger.

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