A preliminary analysis of this information indicates that 4.6% of these wells have recorded surface casing vent flow or gas migration through wellbore annuli or outside casing. Data analysis shows that there is a correlation between these occurrences and economic...
Leakage pathways may exist through and along wellbores, which may penetrate or be near to the storage site. An evaluation is the first step in determining what factors may contribute to wellbore leakage from CO2 storage sites.
Oil and gas wells can develop gas leaks along the casing years after production has stopped and the well has been plugged and abandoned. Explanations include channeling, poor cake removal, shrinkage, and high cement permeability. The reason is probably cement...
Early in 2013, Western Pennsylvania’s Washington County chalked up the third-fastest growth among the country’s 322 largest counties. Just to the north, Butler County ranked sixth.
Though the same themes of balancing economic benefits with environmental harms occurs in Canada as in the U.S., the Canadian western areas’ enthusiastic embrace of large scale fracking provides onlookers with a vision of what could happen if there was less regulation...
Geo Montréal evaluates the potential pathways of fugitive gas seepage during stimulation and production and concludes that the quality of surface casing and deeper casing installations is a major concern with respect to future gas migration. The pathway outside the...