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Pennsylania Adds Disclaimer To Its Drilling Database

Three months after Pennsylvania’s top natural gas producer, Chesapeake, submitted an error-filled production report to the Department of Environmental Protection, the state has added a disclaimer to the website where it hosts drilling data.
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The agency now tells visitors to the website that it can’t guarantee the “accuracy, completeness or timeliness” of production data that companies submit.
The change came after several experts in the oil and gas industry criticized DEP in August for not clearly telling the public that one of the state’s largest natural gas producers submitted unusable data for a biannual report. As a result, the statewide production totals at first appeared to be far lower than they actually were.
A DEP spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about the change.

 

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