Students at Susquehanna County Career & Technology Center were able to use their skills to manufacture a training tool for Cabot Oil & Gas.

As Cabot Oil and Gas develops new technology to further increase productivity of its wells, the close relationship with the Susquehanna County Career and Technology Center (SCCTC) at the Elk Lake High School Campus has resulted once again in a solution to the company’s need for a complex training tool – this time for its employees.

As the pressure in older wells decreases, it becomes more difficult to force excess water to the surface. As the fluid builds up, gas production is adversely affected. The traditional remedy has been to halt production once per day or so and inject detergents to create suds to bring the fluid back up, Cabot production foreman Ryan Bennett explained, but this technique can become inefficient over time.

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