DEP Investigates Potential Methane Migration

State regulators are investigating another potential case of methane migration in Susquehanna County. As the Times-Tribune reports, the Department of Environmental Protection is trying to determine whether methane made its way into water supplies just north of Dimock.

Regulators with the state Department of Environmental Protection emphasized that they have not determined the source of elevated methane discovered in two Susquehanna County water wells and whether it is caused by Marcellus Shale drilling or a natural occurrence of gas in the aquifer
One focus of the investigation is Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.’s Greenwood 1 well, where the company recently squeezed additional cement between steel barriers that are meant to seal off gas and fluids from the aquifer.

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