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The oil industry’s “good neighbor” story of supplying wastewater for use in California’s drought-stricken agricultural fields has come under increased scrutiny from state lawmakers and water quality activists who are seeking more safeguards on the quality of the supplies being diverted.

The oil industry's "good neighbor" story of supplying wastewater for use in California's drought-stricken agricultural fields has come under increased scrutiny from state lawmakers and water quality activists who are seeking more safeguards on the quality of the supplies being diverted.

Chevron Corp. and its partners have encountered more oil and natural gas reserves in the Lower Tertiary Trend of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), the oil major’s second major discovery in the estimable deepwater formation in less than a year.

Chevron Corp. is putting on indefinite hold plans to drill in Canada’s Beaufort Sea because of “economic uncertainty” in the industry.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will issue no citations to Chevron Appalachia LLC for an explosion and fire that burned for days at a three-well pad operated by the company in southwest Pennsylvania in February.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), in an 18-page report released Wednesday, said human error likely led to a deadly explosion and fire that raged for days at a Chevron Appalachia LLC site in February (see Shale Daily, Feb. 11).

ExxonMobil Corp. may have the largest natural gas portfolio in North America with Chevron Corp. not too far behind, but the biggest U.S.-based operators today are focusing their attention on oil and liquids — a strategy that paid off during the second quarter.

The family of a subcontractor killed by an explosion at a well pad operated by Chevron Appalachia LLC in southwest Pennsylvania in February (see Shale Daily, Feb. 11) filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company last month in Allegheny County court in Pittsburgh.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has sent Chevron Appalachia LLC notice of nine violations stemming from an explosion and fire at a well site in Greene County, PA, that left one worker dead and another injured in February (see Shale Daily, Feb. 11).