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A form of secondary production, gas injection is used on a well to enhance waning pressure within the formation. Systematically spread throughout the field, gas-injection wells are used to inject ...
Plum’s zoning hearing board says it will have a final decision on the development of a second injection well along Old Leechburg Road by June. The board heard testimony from three people Monday ...
Delmont-based Penneco Environmental Solutions, which operates the first injection well, applied for a permit in September to convert a second oil and gas well on the same property into an ...
WEATHERSFIELD — AWMS Water Solutions of Howland, the company that owns two oil and gas wastewater injection wells along state Route 169 in Weathersfield Township just north of Niles, says the ...
The well would be the second oil and gas wastewater injection well at Penneco Environmental Solutions' location on Old Leechburg Road. If the EPA approves it, ...
With between 100 and 200 abandoned gas or oil wells in the township, ... About injection wells. Upper Burrell has approved five fracking wells in the township within the past seven years.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the sixth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. To understand why wastewater impoundments and injection wells have been a ...
Brine, a waste byproduct produced in fracking, from an injection well in Washington County has migrated to gas-producing wells at least five miles away, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources ...
The federal government has taken over regulating underground injection wells in Idaho needed by the state’s oil and natural gas industry to economically dispose of wastewater.
Gaps in a public process. The oil and gas industry uses injection wells to dispose of fluid created during the production process, storing it deep underground. The waste contains salts, chemicals ...
Orphan wells are oil, gas, or injection wells with no clear owner — either because the company went bankrupt or disappeared. These wells have been inactive for at least 12 months, meaning the ...