Cabot Finishes 2011 As S&P's Top Performer

• Scott Detrow
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  Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
  
  Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.
  
  Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

Some news from late last week, when the StateImpact reporting team was knee-deep in vats of eggnog: Cabot Oil and Gas finished the year as the S&P 500’s top performer. The energy company’s stock value increased by 101% in 2011, despite falling natural gas prices.
Cabot has the fourth-most producing Marcellus Shale wells in Pennsylvania, based on January-June reports. The company has racked up more than 220 violations, though, including high-profile methane migration issues in Dimock, Susquehanna County.  (Check out every Cabot well and violation at StateImpact’s new “Shale Play” app.)

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