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BY BRENDAN GIBBONS<\/strong>
\n Times-Shamrock Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. faces a $76,546 fine more than seven months after a valve failure on a wellhead caused natural gas to leak for a day.<\/p>\n

On July 23, the state Department of Environmental Protection fined Cabot for a January gas leak on the Huston J1 well in Brooklyn Twp., Susquehanna County. It announced the fine Tuesday.<\/p>\n

On a frigid Jan. 5 morning, a Cabot subcontractor failed to warm the wellhead before beginning work replacing equipment, according to the DEP. A wing valve was damaged and stuck in the open position, letting gas escape.<\/p>\n

Frozen sand in the valve bore may have also obstructed the movement of the gate, which caused a function test to show the valve was closed when it was actually open, according to the DEP.<\/p>\n

Cabot contacted Wild Well Control of Houston, oil and gas emergency responders, who arrived on scene by the evening of Jan. 5, Cabot spokesman George Stark said. DEP emergency responders were also on scene.<\/p>\n

Cabot contacted five residents within a quarter mile of the well pad, warning them of the situation. DEP air monitoring showed no need for them to evacuate \u2014 gas dissipated to background levels within 100 feet of the well, according to the DEP.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was going straight to the atmosphere in the sense of disbursement,\u201d Stark said.<\/p>\n

Scientists have identified methane leaks as a potential downside to the climate benefits of natural gas. Although burning natural gas for electricity emits fewer pollutants than coal or other fossil fuels, the climate benefits become moot if the potent, short-term greenhouse gas leaks at a rate of 3.2 percent or more across the entire system, according to research by Environmental Defense Fund, Princeton University and Duke University.<\/p>\n

By 1 p.m. on Jan. 6, Wild Well Control had stopped the leak by installing additional valves and swapping out the broken one.<\/p>\n

The well was in production, meaning the heavy equipment present during the drilling or hydraulic fracturing stage was not on the pad at the time, Mr. Stark said. Without this equipment, the risk of a spark igniting the gas was much lower.<\/p>\n

Stark said Cabot conducts drills every four months on how to respond to a leak, plus other scenarios.
\n\u201cWe do game plan for this,\u201d he said. \u201cYou put a plan in place, you get to test it under a test scenario, and when January came, we were able to take that knowledge we learned in the drill and apply it to real life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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