GAS WELLS popularity and GAS WELLS trends

The nation's oil and gas wells produce at least nine billion liters of contaminated water per day, according to an Argonne National Laboratory report. And that is an underestimate of the amount of brine, fracking fluid and other contaminated water that flows back up a well along with the natural gas or oil, because it is based on incomplete data from state governments gathered in 2007. [More]...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riches beneath his own land locked up by the heated debate that has kept hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, out of New York....

Anadarko Petroleum will be allowed to develop up to 3,675 new natural gas wells over the next decade in eastern Utah.

THE difficulties of drilling small onshore gas wells to supply Gladstone's planned LNG plants have been highlighted by Santos's plans.

The Obama administration’s new rules aimed at cutting harmful emissions from natural gas wells are a win for the environment, for the public and for industry.

WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - U.S. environment regulators are expected to finalize long-delayed rules Wednesday that aim to slash smog-forming emissions from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, at oil and natural gas wells. The Environmental Protection Agency is under court order to finalize the rules that have been delayed four times since September. It said Wednesday ...

THE BOSS of the oil company planning to drill exploratory oil and gas wells in Dublin Bay says people should not be worried about its plans.

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- At least two gas wells near a community that's complained of sudden drinking water pollution had casing failures during the drilling process. A well casing is meant to prevent gas or other fluids from leaking into nearby aquifers....

The folk who drill natural gas wells and who operate nuclear plants are real environmentalists, too

Measurements at Colorado site show methane release higher than previous estimates

Says research that links the company’s Wyoming natural gas wells to groundwater pollution contains numerous flaws

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking - a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells - may be to blame for causing groundwater pollution....