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Cabot Oil & Gas Reports Increase in Production, New Wells Coming Online in 2010 in PA

PR Newswire (Feb 21) Cabot Oil & Gas Provides Operations Update Current Marcellus Production Over 100 Mmcf per Day!
From a press release just issued by Cabot Oil & Gas, we get the following update on their Marcellus drilling activities (below is exact wording from the release):
During the third quarter call, Cabot announced its [...]

Cabot Oil & Gas Fined $120K over Gas-Contaminated Wells in Susquehanna County

PA Department of Environmental Protection (Nov 4):
Press Release: DEP Reaches Agreement with Cabot to Prevent Gas Migration, Restore Water Supplies in Dimock Township
Below is the unaltered press release from the PA DEP:
Meadville – The Department of Environmental Protection and Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. have executed a consent order and agreement that will provide [...]

Cabot Resumes Drilling in Susquehanna County, PA

Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (Oct 16):
DEP gives Cabot OK to resume gas operations in Pennsylvania
Cabot Oil & Gas has had several spills of chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process at one of their drilling sites in Dimock Township, Pennsylvania. The spills have led to fish dying in the local Stevens Creek. The PA [...]

Anti-Drilling Organizer Predicts Environmental Holocaust

Pocono Record (Oct 9):
Environmentalist: Firms drilling for natural gas would ‘destroy’ local state game lands
A reporter with anti-drilling views (Jessica Cohen) interviews a local anti-drilling organizer (Pat Carullo) in Northeast Pennsylvania. In the process, you get an article shot full of lies. Mr. Carullo is upset over 2,500 acres owned by the Mushpaugh Sportsman’s [...]

Breaking News: Dimock Gas Wells Pass DEP Test, Cabot Not at Fault

On February 27, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) served Cabot Oil & Gas with a “Notice of Violation” claiming Cabot’s drilling activities in the Carter Road area of Dimock Township, PA caused some local private water wells to be contaminated with methane (see the MDN article Cabot Oil & Gas Served with “Notice [...]

Times Leader Update on Dimock, PA Water Well Contamination

The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader is following the story of the natural gas-contaminated water wells in Dimock, PA. Overall the article is pretty even-handed in its treatment of the issue and worth a read. In covering “both sides” of the issue, they reveal some of the facts in the case:
The company [Cabot Oil & Gas] and [...]

Water Technology Magazine Gets it Wrong on Dimock Water Situation

Marcellus Drilling News pointed out the problems in yesterday’s Reuters news story coverage of the contaminated water wells near a drilling site in Dimock, PA (see Reuters News Service Runs Hit Piece on Drilling in Dimock, PA and Cabot Oil & Gas). Exhibit A in how the slanted mainstream media perpetuates lies is Water Technology [...]

Reuters News Service Runs Hit Piece on Drilling in Dimock, PA and Cabot Oil & Gas

Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) has been following the story of Cabot Oil & Gas and the contamination of a few water wells with natural gas in the Dimock, PA area. The mainstream media, when it looks for stories about gas drilling and the environment, latches on to this particular story because of it’s potential to [...]

Cabot Oil & Gas Served with “Notice of Violation” in Dimock, PA

The latest development in the unfolding story of several local water wells contaminated by very deep Devonian natural gas in Dimock, PA, is that the local drilling company, Cabot Oil & Gas, has been served by the PA Department of Environmental Protection with a “Notice of Violation.” What does that mean? According to an article [...]

Cabot Oil’s Actions Help Lower Gas Levels in PA Water Wells

Several local water wells near the drilling operations of Cabot Oil in Dimock, Pennsylvania have been contaminated with natural gas. According to the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, somehow (no one yet knows exactly how), Cabot penetrated the very deep Devonian geological formation that released the gas into an aquifer that feeds local drinking wells in [...]

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