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California Well Stimulation Permitting Slows; Draft Fracking Ban Issued

California Well Stimulation Permitting Slows; Draft Fracking Ban Issued

California oil patch regulators on Friday denied 21 hydraulic fracturing (fracking) permits requested by Aera Energy, a unit of Shell Oil Co. and ExxonMobil. The decision to deny the well stimulation treatment (WST) permits by the California Geologic Engineering Management (CalGEM) division coincided with a draft released to ban fracking beginning in 2024. Since Gov.…

July 13, 2021

California Doubling Down on Decarbonizing as Fossil Fuel Output Declines

California’s chief regulatory agency for oil and natural gas development has been renamed going into the new year, with a focus on public health, safety and environmental issues within the energy sector.

January 3, 2020