From frackingcanada a few years ago:
Slide from Ernst presentations:
Alberta regulator suspends oil and gas firm’s licences after no one answers emergency number by The Canadian Press, April 2, 2018, Calgary Herald
CALGARY — The Alberta Energy Regulator says it has suspended the licences of an oil and gas producer after no one answered its 1-800 emergency phone line when one of its hydrocarbon handling facilities appeared to be leaking.
In a notice on its website, the regulator says it has yanked licences for nearly 30 wells, a similar number of pipeline segments and four facilities from Insch Commodity Ltd., a Warburg, Alta.-based company.
It says the apparent leak was reported in an anonymous call to the Drayton Valley, Alta., office of the AER on March 13.
An AER inspector visited the site west of Edmonton on March 20 and observed hydrocarbon pooling on soil and vegetation which potentially could migrate into a nearby waterbody. The inspector called the emergency number on a sign on the site and no one answered.
The AER has ordered Insch to hire an environmental contractor to clean the affected site. The company is also to inspect, clean and shut down all of its other sites, and is being given 14 days to confirm it has done so.
The AER says in its order the company also has failed to provide a security deposit or pay its 2017 contribution to the Alberta orphan well fund, which is used to reclaim oil and gas sites left behind by operators who can’t or won’t do the work.
There was no immediate response to messages left at Insch’s Warburg contact number on Monday.
One comment:
Michael J Popowich ·Victoria, British Columbia
Oil and gas firm’s emergency number unattended; regulator suspends licences by The Canadian Press, April 2, 2018, Global News
The Alberta Energy Regulator says it has suspended the licences of an oil and gas producer after no one answered its 1-800 emergency phone line when one of its hydrocarbon handling facilities appeared to be leaking.
In a notice on its website, the regulator says it has yanked licences for nearly 30 wells, a similar number of pipeline segments and four facilities from Insch Commodity Ltd., a Warburg, Alta.-based company.
It says the apparent leak was reported in an anonymous call to the Drayton Valley, Alta., office of the AER on March 13.
An AER inspector visited the site west of Edmonton on March 20 and observed hydrocarbon pooling on soil and vegetation which potentially could migrate into a nearby waterbody. The inspector called the emergency number on a sign on the site and no one answered.
The AER has ordered Insch to hire an environmental contractor to clean the affected site. The company is also to inspect, clean and shut down all of its other sites, and is being given 14 days to confirm it has done so.
The AER says in its order the company also has failed to provide a security deposit or pay its 2017 contribution to the Alberta orphan well fund, which is used to reclaim oil and gas sites left behind by operators who can’t or won’t do the work.
There was no immediate response to messages left at Insch’s Warburg contact number on Monday.
FB comments to the above:
Richard Michael
Wow 7 days for aer to get out and check the site !!! Thats not very good at all !!
I’ve posted several times after a story on a pipeline leak the response from these companies after hours or weekend emergency numbers were useless
Refer also to
PA Superior Court: Taking Natural Gas Without Permission From Neighboring Property Is Trespass Overturning Rule Of Capture For Unconventional Gas Wells by PA Environmental Daily, April 3, 2018
“The PA Superior Court Monday issued an opinion saying Southwestern Energy drilling company trespassed on the property of Susquehanna County landowners by taking natural gas from an adjacent property without permission by rule of capture through its unconventional drilling operations.”
“Therefore, hydraulic fracturing may constitute an actionable trespass where subsurface fractures, fracturing fluid and proppant cross boundary lines and extend into the subsurface estate of an adjoining property for which the operator does not have a mineral lease, resulting in the extraction of natural gas from beneath the adjoining landowner’s property.”
THE OPINION:
http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Superior/out/Opinion%20%20ReversedRemanded%20%2010348768634826102.pdf?cb=1