Last Saturday, a house exploded in Plum, PA, causing two neighboring houses to burn to the ground. Plum is located in Allegheny County near Pittsburgh. Five people died in the blast and fires. However, a sixth person died yesterday from his injuries. We grieve with the families and friends of those who died or were…
Read More...Talk about bad luck. On Monday, TC Energy announced it had sold a 40% stake in its Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline subsidiary to Global Infrastructure Partners for $3.9 billion (see TC Energy Sells 40% Interest in Columbia Pipeline to Investor GIP). Yesterday, a portion of the Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline in rural western Virginia–in Shenandoah…
Read More...Yesterday MDN brought you the news that a third-party contractor “struck a well head” on a Hilcorp shale well pad in Columbiana County, Ohio, resulting in a leak that forced the evacuation of 450 people within a mile of the well site (see Columbiana County, OH Evacuates 450 After Hilcorp Gas Well Accident). Good news….
Read More...Roughly 450 people within a one-mile radius of a Hilcorp Energy well pad in Fairfield Township (Columbiana County, OH) were evacuated following a mishap at the pad. Hilcorp says a third-party contractor “struck a well head” on the pad around 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, causing natural gas to leak into the air. What does that mean,…
Read More...In late December 2022, piping at the MarkWest Imperial Compressor Station in Robinson Township, Washington County, PA, froze during Winter Storm Elliot. The frozen line burst, spilling roughly 10,000 gallons of condensate on the ground. On May 23, 2023, MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources LLC submitted a Notice of Intent (NOI) to the Pennsylvania Dept.
Read More...We have two explosions and resulting fires to tell you about–neither related to the other, except they happened two days… Continue reading The post Unrelated Explosions at OH Utica Well Pad, WV Brine Plant first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...The PA Environment Digest Blog has been reviewing the reports filed by Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) workers again and… Continue reading The post Seneca Tardy in Responding to NOV for Tioga, PA Pad Spillage first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Most water used for fracking new shale wells in Pennsylvania comes from produced water (i.e. brine)–from other shale wells. Produced… Continue reading The post Seneca Well Site Accident in Elk County Spills 63K Gals. of Brine first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...It’s interesting that a single point of failure, one compressor station, can impact an entire region. Last Friday morning around… Continue reading The post Fire at Miss. Compressor Station Reduces M-U Flows to Gulf Coast first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Air monitors at Shell’s ethane cracker plant detected elevated levels of benzene (which can cause cancer in humans) following an… Continue reading The post Air Monitors Detect Benzene at Fenceline of Shell Cracker in Monaca first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Last November, one of the ten natural gas storage wells at the Equitrans Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area in Jackson… Continue reading The post PA DEP Withdraws Order to Fix Equitrans Rager Gas Storage Leak first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...The mighty Shell ethane cracker in Beaver County, PA (called Shell Polymers Monaca) has had “issues” getting and staying fully… Continue reading The post PA DEP Investigates Bad Odor Coming from Shell Cracker Plant first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...There is an ongoing issue with cleanup at a Chesapeake Energy well pad in Bradford County, PA. The Pennsylvania Dept…. Continue reading The post Chesapeake Makes Slow Progress Cleaning Up Spills at NE PA Pad first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Pennsylvania General Energy (PGE) is constructing a natural gas pipeline, a freshwater pipeline, and facilities to withdraw fresh water at… Continue reading The post PA Fish & Boat Commission Fines PGE for Muddy Water in Loyalsock first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Residents living in the vicinity of Energy Transfer’s Revolution Pipeline cryogenic plant in Bulger (Washington County), PA, got a surprise… Continue reading The post Revolution Processing Plant Xmas Explosion Caused by Leaky Valve first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
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