Michael L. Krancer
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is the lead federal implementing agency and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (of which PA DEP is a member) represents and advocates for member states as this new program is being implemented and rolled out. ...
Note:The Eastern Oil and Gas District does not issue oil and gas drilling permits. Permit review timeframes reflect new and modified “Drill and Operate a Well” permits that are received and processed in the calendar year and are designated as “active” within DEP’s Permit Decision Guarantee...
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“Using the new department-wide electronic permitting system, DEP began developing two new e-permits for oil and gas operations in 2017,” according to the report. “One will replace the existing ‘eWell’ online well permit application, and the other will replace the Erosion and Sediment Contro...
Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) wells from the Marcellus and Utica shale plays have expanded greatly across the Appalachian region of the United States (US) since the early 2000s. This region is now the single largest natural gas producing area of the US. The local and regional impacts of...
Horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and other drilling and well stimulation technologies are now used widely in the United States and increasingly in other countries. They enable increases in oil and gas production, but there has been inadequate a
1 (Pa. Indep. Oil & Gas Ass'n v. Pa. Dep't of Envtl. Protection, Pa. Commw. Ct., No. 321 M.D. 2015, 9/1/16). The court rejected arguments from the Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association that the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection could not enforce a ...
Oil and Gas Group Still Battling Dep Wants Standing to Intervene over Act 13 IssuesOil and Gas Group Still Battling Dep Wants Standing to Intervene over Act 13 IssuesA state oil and gas trade group set up a legal bout with environmental regulators over...Legere, Laura...
A large fraction of the oil and gas wells in McKean County are AOL and some estimates of the number of AOL wells exceed the number of wells listed by the PA DEP by factors of 20 or more. To characterize AOL wells' potential as a significant methane source, we made first-of-a-kind ...