In November 2022, one of the ten natural gas storage wells at the Equitrans Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area in Jackson Township, Cambria County (in Pennsylvania), began to leak. Equitrans is the owner/operator of Rager Mountain. The well leaked roughly 100 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of gas into the atmosphere (see Equitrans Gas…
Read More...In November 2022, one of the ten natural gas storage wells at the Equitrans Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area in Jackson Township, Cambria County (in Pennsylvania), began to leak. Equitrans is the owner/operator of Rager Mountain. The well leaked roughly 100 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of gas into the atmosphere (see Equitrans Gas…
Read More...Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) Fairview Energy Center is a 1,050-megawatt natural gas and ethane-fueled two-by-one combined-cycle electric generating plant 60 miles east of Pittsburgh (Cambria County) that came online in December 2019 (see CPV Marcellus-Fired Power Plant in Cambria “Ahead of Schedule”). It is the only plant of its kind, using both natural gas and…
Read More...Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Investment Program (PIPE) issues grants covering part of the cost of building new natural gas pipelines to connect homes and businesses, typically in rural parts of the state, to homegrown Marcellus Shale gas supplies. We’ve written about many PIPE grant projects in the past (see our PIPE stories here). Another PIPE grant was…
Read More...Last week, the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners announced it had cut two different deals with Pennsylvania General Energy (PGE). Both deals involve land swaps with the prospect of new shale drilling by PGE on the way in both Lycoming County and Sullivan County. The Game Commission’s remit is “to protect, propagate, manage and preserve…
Read More...Last November, one of the ten natural gas storage wells at the Equitrans Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area in Jackson Township, Cambria County (in Pennsylvania) began to leak. The well leaked roughly 100 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of gas into the atmosphere (see Equitrans Gas Storage Well in Cambria County, PA is Leaking)….
Read More...Last November, one of the ten natural gas storage wells at the Equitrans Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area in Jackson Township, Cambria County (in Pennsylvania) began to leak. The well leaked roughly 100 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of gas into the atmosphere (see Equitrans Gas Storage Well in Cambria County, PA is Leaking)….
Read More...The problem with the pay-for-protection scam is that it never stops. A mobster comes calling on a business, and for a “small” and regular fee, the mobster will guarantee nothing “happens” to the business. “Just think of it as insurance.” It’s a shakedown–a scam. And over the years, the price keeps going up. What if…
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 Still Figuring Out How (or If) It Can Regulate Gas Storage 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...Husband and wife Ronald and Jane Shawley, who live in Cambria County, PA, filed a lawsuit against the Mariner East… Continue reading The post Cambria Landowners Sue ME Pipe for Allegedly Polluting Water Well first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Late last week, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) slapped Equitrans with three orders related to the Rager Mountain… Continue reading The post PA Finds More Leaky Wells in Cambria Storage Field, Stops Injections first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Three weeks ago, one of the ten natural gas storage wells at the Equitrans Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area in… Continue reading The post Feds Investigate Equitrans Storage Well Leak in Cambria County, PA first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Three weeks ago, one of the ten natural gas storage wells at the Equitrans Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area in… Continue reading The post PA DEP Doing “Top to Bottom” Review of Gas Storage After Big Leak first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...On Friday, MDN reported that one of the ten natural gas storage wells at the Equitrans Rager Mountain Gas Storage… Continue reading The post Storage Well Leak Fix in Cambria County Failed, Leaked 1.4 Bcf first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
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