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Texas RRC: Oil, Gas Production Not to Blame for Well Water Contamination

by Gene Lockard
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Rigzone Staff
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Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Water contamination from explosive gas in the water supply of a North Texas neighborhood cannot be linked to nearby drilling, the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) said in a recent report.
The investigation began after seven property owners in the neighborhood contacted the RRC about rising levels of methane in their water wells. An eighth property owner also found an increase of chloride in two water wells.
In its finding that there was an insufficient link between the contamination of well water in the Silverado on the Brazos (Silverado) neighborhood in southern Parker County and drilling in the nearby Barnett Shale, the RRC, which regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, noted that the contamination has worsened in five of the eight private water wells it tested in September 2013, compared to the contamination measured in the same wells in 2010 and 2011. However, the RRC geologist, Peter Pope, concluded that there was not sufficient evidence to reach a conclusion that drilling in the nearby Barnett Shale “caused or contributed to methane contamination beneath the neighborhood.”
In its report, the RRC said that “the occurrence of natural gas in the complainants’ water wells may be attributed to processes unrelated to recent Barnett Shale gas production.”
The RRC provided several factors that led to its conclusion:
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[TD="class: price"]$3.663[/TD]
[TD="class: price"]$3.850[/TD]
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[TD="class: price"]$3.916[/TD]
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[TD="class: price"]$3.853[/TD]
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Don't fall in love with dropping gas prices (to coin a phrase)...Summer driving season is almost here.;)

Still $3.36 here.
 
Buster said:
Don't fall in love with dropping gas prices (to coin a phrase)...Summer driving season is almost here.;)

Still $3.36 here.
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I know! But summer is here in Georgia, 94 today global warming! My centipede grass died this winter that never happened here in GA since 1995! NO it's not global warming, in August of 1995 it reached 108 degrees.
 
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We are having a very wet and cool spring..Not many stormado's this year...the last two years at this time we were alread solidly in the 100's consistantly till Septemper and May had the worse Tornado out break on records....Loving it!
 
Buster said:
We are having a very wet and cool spring..Not many stormado's this year...the last two years at this time we were alread solidly in the 100's consistantly till Septemper and May had the worse Tornado out break on records....Loving it!
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Talked to the wife in southern Spain this afternoon, it's 73 degrees F there today, will warm up to the mid 80s in two or three days, that's very cool for this time of the year in south of Spain. I guess the southern hemisphere is boiling by now?
 
Gas coming down a little. Anywhere from $3.89 to $3.75 a gallon. Low 70's here with a chance of low 80's by the end of the week. Early next week we might see upper 80's
 
It will be drifting up for a while, they are keeping it in a comfortable range to support the government and encourage the GREEN lies that are supposed to cure all of our problems, it will get much worse.
 
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