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Comment by Bill Pedley on September 18, 2009 at 3:17am

Updated: Today at 7:10 AM
Drilling gas gel spills at well

By Rory Sweeney rsweeney@timesleader.com
Staff Writer

About 8,400 gallons of a gel used in drilling natural-gas wells was spilled on Wednesday at a well being drilled in Dimock Township for Cabot Oil & Gas, the state Department of Environmental Protection announced Thursday.
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Spilled at the Heitsman well site, the substance affected an unknown amount of “shallow wetland,” said company spokesman Ken Komoroski.

DEP and state Fish and Boat Commission officials were on hand Wednesday and Thursday as a crew cleaned up and contained the material, said DEP spokesman Mark Carmon. It may have gotten into Stevens Creek, he said.

“What was done was the spilled material was immediately contained” using an eight-man crew, Komoroski said. “The gel was able to be removed by vacuum trucks.”

The spill occurred as Halliburton was using a fluid to fracture the Marcellus Shale and release the natural gas within it, he said. Baker Tank, the contractor responsible for tanking and piping for the “frack” job, allowed a pipe to come loose and release the gel, he said.

“This is certainly disappointing to Cabot that this occurred,” Komoroski said. “On the other hand, these are the types of things that are typically unforeseeable and it’s important to react to it when it occurs.”

The slippery substance is “relatively innocuous,” he said, but “does have the potential for eye, skin and respiratory irritation.” Used to help suspend sand particles evenly throughout the so-called fracking fluid, it’s made of “paraffinic material” and polysaccharides, or something like fluid wax and starch.

Comment by Robin Fehrenbach Scala on September 16, 2009 at 9:34am

Anyone interested in the below lease offer must go to this website to sign up:
http://www.askchesapeake.com/Marcellus

Comment by Robin Fehrenbach Scala on September 16, 2009 at 1:54am

To anyone in Wyoming County waiting for a lease offer:

If you have not yet heard the news, a deal has been reached with Chesapeake for any and all property at $5750. per acre, 20% royalties...lease terms to be announced later, but it is to contain all protective clauses and then some....$1000. per acre on signing and the rest paid when title clears (or by Dec. 31 2009 latest)
A new website should be online by this afternoon for landowners to sign up if they are not already part of the group, and I will be back to add that when I have it. More to come....

Comment by Robin Fehrenbach Scala on September 15, 2009 at 12:01pm

Anthony,
Currently, no permits for wells are filed in Lake Carey. However, leasing has picked up again considerably and the offers are through the roof just north of Wyoming County. This will trickle down, possibly sooner than later. If you have not considered a landowner group yet, you could contact the Wyoming County Group at their website:
http://www.pamarcellusshale.com/

Comment by Anthony Bliss on September 15, 2009 at 4:18am

Just joined, live in florida, have 5 acres at lake carey. Does anyone have any current information. Thanks

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