West Virginia's congressional delegates in the United States House of Representatives, Rep. Carol Miller and Alex Mooney, both Republicans, split their votes on a bill that overwhelmingly passed the House designed to locate and research abandoned gas and oil wells. The bill is the Abandoned Wells Remediation, Research and Development Act, on which Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. were noncommittal Thursday.
Rep. Summer Lee said without this bill, it will remain nearly impossible to locate every abandoned well and it will be too expensive to plug or remediate them.
In early March, MDN told you about a new strategy by Chesapeake Energy to drill new shale gas wells but leave them offline (see Chesapeake Brings Japanese “Just in Time” Concept to Gas Wells). As we explained in that article, Chessy is doing more than drilling DUCs (drilled but uncompleted wells). They are actually completing
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A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, Feb 04, 2024 thru Sat, Feb 10, 2024.
Story of the week
This past week Professor Michael Mann successfully concluded his lawsuit against fossil fuel industry proxies Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn, who dragged Mann's reputation through the mud with false information while working to deceive the public about the threat of climate change. After hearing testimony about the disgusting tactics employed by the defendants, the jury swiftly returned their judgement: the accused are indeed guilty of smearing Mann's character and owe him $1M in damages. No surprise, this all-too-rare example of reckless accusations being assigned a fair price tag is our story of the week. Our colleagues at DeSmog have done the best job of covering the entire affair. See Michael Mann Wins $1 Million Verdict In Defamation Trial for excellent coverage of the trial's conclusion and background. For our part we'll observe that Prof. Mann has a long memory and attention span. Meanwhile, prolonging justice delivered only hurt the defendants; Simberg and Steyn would have been smarter by settling years ago.
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The state-owned public joint stock company UkrGasVydobuvannya has launched two new gas wells which produce 550,000 m3 a day. They were drilled at the new deposits. Source: press service of the Naftogaz group Quote: "This week UkrGasVydobuvannya launched two new high-debit gas wells which produce 550,000 m3 of gas a day.
The acquired assets, located in North Yorkshire, UK, comprise eight well sites housing twelve former gas wells in a suspended state. [Image: CeraPhi Energy]
Last fall, the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, along with other conservation groups, toured Kanawha State Forest looking at operational and abandoned gas wells. Along with the more than 60 miles