Comments on: Explosion Rocks Marcellus Well in WV, Workers Seriously Burned

By: d. shatin

d. shatin — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 19:33:47 +0000

How come this important news was nowhere on any TV new stations??????

Hiding the truth from the American people about fracking!

By: S. Thomas Bond

S. Thomas Bond — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:39:09 +0000

Al Schopp, vice president of Colorado-based Antero, had said that four other workers were flown to West Penn with varying degrees of burns.

You know darn well they didn’t fly anyone to the Burn Center in Pittsburgh unless they were in serious condition.

That’s what I call sociopathic, CYA comes before humanity.

By: Duane Nichols

Duane Nichols — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:13:29 +0000

Worker injured in gas well explosion dies at West Penn Hospital

By Michael Hasch, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, July 23, 2013

A worker has died from injuries sustained in a natural gas well explosion in northcentral West Virginia.

Tommy Paxton, 45, of Walton, W.Va., died Tuesday morning in the burn unit of West Penn Hospital in Bloomfield, where he was flown following the explosion on July 7 at the Antero Resources drilling site near New Milton, Doddridge County, a spokesman for the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said.

Al Schopp, vice president of Colorado-based Antero, had said that four other workers were flown to West Penn with varying degrees of burns. Schopp said the crew was in the final stages of completing the well and was inserting a narrow production tube into the metal casing around the drilled hole when methane gas ignited.

By: Fritz Frank

Fritz Frank — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:16:26 +0000

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By: Duane Nichols

Duane Nichols — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:20:05 +0000

DEP News – WVDEP issues Cease Operations Order to Antero

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Friday, July 12, 2013 @ 5:05 PM
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The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s
Office of Oil and Gas has issued a Cease Operations Order
to Antero Resources in connection with the company’s Ruddy
Alt gas well pad in Doddridge County.

The Ruddy Alt pad was the site of a July 7 well fire in
which five workers were injured during operations on the
well. The cause of the fire on the pad’s Hinterer Unit 1H
well is under investigation.

As part of the OOG order, which halts all well work on the
Ruddy Alt pad, Antero must submit a report to the OOG on or
before July 31, 2013, that demonstrates a knowledge and
understanding as to the cause of the July 7 incident;
demonstrates Antero’s ability to safely resume operations
on the well pad; outlines future preventive measures that
will safeguard from similar future incidents; and confirm
that any possible pollutants were contained on site

By: Amanda Flynn

Amanda Flynn — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:00:31 +0000

Given below are the detailed listings of data fields in each of the 8 data types in the Survey’s oil and gas well database. In this relational database structure, records in each of the file types are keyed on the designated county code/permit number of the wells. A “suffix” code describes the individual episodes of drilling (e.g., original drilling, deepening, or workover). For wells with multiple deepenings or workovers, linking the various records for specific episodes of drilling may involve the use of the API number, suffix, and the episode completion date.

For some of the data types (e.g., LOCATIONS, MECHANICAL LOG CATALOG, and WELL SAMPLES AND CORES), there is only one record regardless of the number of episodes of drilling. For other data types (e.g., COMPLETIONS/OWNERS), there is one record for each episode of drilling. For yet other data types (e.g., PAYS/SHOWS/WATER, STRATIGRAPHY, and PRODUCTION), there are a variable number of records for each well, with one record for each pay or show or water zone, or for each stratigraphic unit, or for each year of production data available.

This data structure imports readily into relational databases such as ACCESS; however, the variable number of records per well for certain data types makes importing the data into a spreadsheet somewhat more difficult.

By: S. Tom Bond

S. Tom Bond — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:59:14 +0000

Subject: Gas well fires in WV and large fires from gas production

This isn’t a rare phenomenon. A quick survey of news reports shows seven in the past three years in West Virginia alone:

July 8, 2013. Well near New Milton, Doddridge County. 8 (or 9) injured, five severely. Explosion in tank/s holding flowback. Anterio owned.

April 11, 2013, Wick, Tyler County, well. 2 dead, 1 injured. Explosion at pig receiving station near transmission facility. Eureka – Hunter owned.

April 10, 2013, Well near Genteel Ridge Road, Brooke County. No injured reported. Several pumper trucks destroyed, $8M damage reported. Chesapeake

December 11, 2012, Sissonville, Kanawha County. Explosion of major transmission line. No fatalities reported. Nisource – Columbia Gas Transmission

September 20, 2012, Well in Marshall County,. No injuries announced. Chesapeake officials set up several security checkpoints, blocking access to the site.

August 17, 2012, Well on Sycamore, Harrison County. 3 injured, 2 seriously. Gas ignited 400 feet underground as drilling began. Water wells affected. Anterio

June 7, 2010, Well near Moundsville, Marshall County. 7 injured sent to burn center in Pittsburgh. Ran into an abandoned coal mine 1000 feet down. AB Resources PA, LLC

Doubtless several others in Pennsylvania and other shale drilling areas.

Notice the press let them get away in several cases with no report of injury.

By: Rick Humphries

Rick Humphries — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:56:49 +0000

I’m sorry to learn about the rig worker injuries. I hope they all recover without any lasting effects. Review of oil & gas safety requirements and OSHA standards must be inevitable.

The explosions raise renewed concerns about setback distances. If officials questioned the Pitcock’s safety, 2,500 feet from the well pad, what might have happened if the Pitcock’s had been at the legislated setback distance of 625 feet (1,875 feet CLOSER)? What might have happened if their home had been at a distance of 200 feet?

Any reasonable investigation of this explosion must include the area of impact. Public safety, right to be secure and enjoy one’s property may be compromised or neglected if these distances are not responsibly considered.

Also, when it comes to public safety, grandfathering past distance allowances is not an option. We know from looking at news articles, prior to Nov/Dec 2011, it was permissible for the WV DEP to authorize well pads that are 200 feet or closer to homes. It’s inexcusable to wait for the next tragic accident to happen. Public officials should insist on every reasonable precaution to prevent it.

Ricky Humphreys