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Natural gas and drilling fluids spewed from an out-of-control well in Clearfield County on Friday afternoon.
Emergency officials said a mile-wide area was evacuated after an operation drilling into the Marcellus Shale ruptured.
The FAA issued a flight restriction in the immediate area.
Originally posted by Jessicamsa
Yet another oil related disaster. Come on. This cannot possibly be a coincidence! Some one has to be doing this on purpose. Sabotage is getting more and more like a possibility.
There is oil spewing every where in the gulf of mexico. Now this.
I wonder how bad this will affect the oil industry.
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Originally posted by Jessicamsa
This cannot possibly be a coincidence! Some one has to be doing this on purpose. Sabotage is getting more and more like a possibility.
Originally posted by DaMod
Natural Gas and Oil are two totally unrelated substances. Just FYI on that..
Good thing it didn't happen in Wyoming. We have H2S in our wells. A rupture like this would have caused many many deaths as a single breath at 1000 ppm will kill you instantly.
So I'm sure you could see how it could be much worse.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Natural gas and fracturing fluid from an out-of-control Pennsylvania well shot 75 feet into the air before crews could tame the flow of explosive gas more than half a day later, officials said Friday.
The well was brought under control just after noon Friday, about 16 hours after it started spewing gas and wastewater, said Elizabeth Ivers, a spokeswoman for Houston-based driller EOG Resources. EOG is also a major natural gas and oil producer in the Barnett Shale of North Texas, where the company had 12 rigs drilling Friday.
Ivers said she could not immediately respond to questions about how the accident happened. Public safety and protection of the environment are of the utmost importance, the company said in a statement.
The well never caught fire, and no injuries were reported, but state officials had worried that the gas might explode before the well could be controlled. State environmental authorities promised an aggressive investigation of the circumstances surrounding the blowout.
UPDATE 2-Pennsylvania halts EOG drilling after blowout
PHILADELPHIA, June 7 (Reuters) - The Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection (DEP) on Monday ordered EOG Resources Inc (EOG.N: Quote) to
suspend its natural gas drilling operations in the state after a well blowout
last week.
The suspension will remain in effect until DEP has completed an
investigation into the accident and the company has implemented any needed
changes, the agency said in statement.
The DEP banned EOG from drilling anywhere in Pennsylvania for up to seven
days and from using hydraulic fracturing techniques on any gas wells for up to
14 days
Other EOG wells that are already producing gas will not be affected.
The company, which owns 230,000 net acres in Pennsylvania, said it
regretted the accident and would work with the state in its investigation.
The Houston-based company has previously said it planned to drill 40 wells
in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale in 2010 and another 80 wells in 2011. It
currently operates about 265 active wells in Pennsylvania, 117 of which are in
the Marcellus Shale formation.
Originally posted by DaMod
Originally posted by Jessicamsa
Yet another oil related disaster. Come on. This cannot possibly be a coincidence! Some one has to be doing this on purpose. Sabotage is getting more and more like a possibility.
There is oil spewing every where in the gulf of mexico. Now this.
I wonder how bad this will affect the oil industry.
www.thepittsburghchannel.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
Natural Gas and Oil are two totally unrelated substances. Just FYI on that..
Good thing it didn't happen in Wyoming. We have H2S in our wells. A rupture like this would have caused many many deaths as a single breath at 1000 ppm will kill you instantly.
So I'm sure you could see how it could be much worse.