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Well Control Teams On The Scene In Tioga County

An update on Shell’s potential methane migration problem in Tioga County: company spokeswoman Kelly op de Weegh says a well control team has been called in to help. Here’s her emailed statement:

We have both a groundwater protection technical team and a well control team actively working on the origin and cause of the water and methane release.  As a precaution, we have suspended our well completion work on the well pads in the area.  The release – from and near water wells within a hunting club – is not located on any of our well sites.  We are depressurizing gas wells in the larger area in order to reduce pressure subsurface.  We’re also working operations around the water wells, including excavation in a secured, control zone.

StateImpact Pennsylvania profiled these well control teams – which are often based in Texas – earlier this year.

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