Order

California oil and natural gas regulators want to firm up what they consider to be weak requirements for idle wells and are supporting proposed legislation to get the job done.

In accordance with FERC Order No. 809, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) intends to comply by making a number of changes, which will go into effect for trade date March 31.

California’s oil/natural gas supervisor late Thursday issued a second emergency order aimed at getting faster gas capture and additional data on the seven-week-old underground storage well leak from Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) Aliso Canyon facility on the northern edge of a Los Angeles suburb.

California’s oil/natural gas supervisor late Wednesday issued an emergency order aimed at getting data on a month-long underground storage well leak from Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas), the owner/operator of the state’s largest gas storage facility in northern Los Angeles County. The order sought initial information by the end of the day Thursday.

Pittsburgh-based EQT Corp. is again fighting the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) over an order the agency issued last month to restore or replace water that was allegedly contaminated years ago by its drilling operations in Greene County.

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday accelerated the state's response to climate change by issuing an executive order calling for a reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of 40% below 1990 levels by 2030.

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday accelerated the state’s response to climate change by issuing an executive order calling for a reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of 40% below 1990 levels by 2030.

Seismic activity in Kansas has been on the rise for a while and has been blamed on drilling waste injection wells, so state regulators recently acted to limit injection volumes where tremors have been prevalent. And in neighboring Oklahoma, injection well operators were recently required to limit the depth of their disposals.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection slapped Range Resources Corp. with a $4.15 million fine for a series of violations at six of the company’s water impoundments in southwest Pennsylvania, representing the largest financial penalty against any operator in the state’s shale drilling era.