Fayette County Marcellus Shale Permits 1/25/21 - 2/7/21
Contents
Maps
Pennsylvania Bulletin Listings
Order of the Commonwealth Court of
Pennsylvania in Marcellus Shale Coalition v. DEP & EQB
eFACTS Listings
F NUTT 1 Well Plugging Notice Intent to
Plug Single Well Issued 2/3/2021
Notes
Map
Key
Red dots: items in this permit list with an exact location.
Blue stars:
Marcellus
Gas Well Water Sources.
Where well laterals are mapped they show in red; a 400-foot buffer
surrounding the lateral shows in blue (lavender where it overlaps
a mapped mineral tract).
Where mineral tracts are mapped, they show in pink. Mineral tracts
can overlap; the overlap will show in red. The precise meaning of
"mineral tract" is not clear.
Municipality shading: number of "facilities", with each well
counting separately
(includes the red dots):
gray: 0
pale turquoise: 1
turquoise: 2
pale blue: 3
middle blue: 4
dark blue: 5
dark purple: 6
purple: 18
(Color coding may differ from one issue to the next.)
(Note if a project spans multiple municipalities -- e.g. a
pipeline -- it will show in the count for each municipality.)
The number of facilities also follows the municipality name in
brackets.
Municipality counts are based on the way the permit is listed by
DEP; DEP has been known to get a municipality wrong.
Locations in brackets identify a
precise location used to locate a
surrogate for the actual
site being permitted (e.g. locating a well pad or pipeline by the
known location of a well.) Locations labeled beginning with "~"
and ending in "[?]" are approximate and speculative based on
inferences using on-line property and lease records. These are
marked in the text as "[Approximate, Speculative]
Cross-hatching:
Environmental Justice Areas
Yellow triangles: Compressor Stations
Orange triangles: Storage Field Wells (currently Dominion North
Summit Storage Field)
Crosses: SPUD Unconventional well permits
Green: "Natural areas", e.g. state game lands, state forests
More Maps
Source:
Pennsylvania Bulletin
NOTICES
DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Order of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania dated January 6,
2021 in Marcellus Shale Coalition v. Department of Environmental
Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Environmental
Quality Board of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Doc. No. 573 MD
2016
[51 Pa.B. 639]
[Saturday, January 30, 2021]
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
(Department) provides notice of the following January 6, 2021, Order
of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania (Order), which clarifies
the compliance deadlines in 25 Pa. Code § 78a.59c(a) (relating to
centralized impoundments). The Commonwealth Court issued its Order
in response to a Joint Application for Relief Requesting
Clarification of the Compliance Deadlines in 25 Pa. Code
§ 78a.59c(a) filed by the Department, the Environmental Quality
Board and the Marcellus Shale Coalition in the case of Marcellus
Shale Coalition v. Department of Environmental Protection of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Environmental Quality Board of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Commonwealth Court Docket No. 573 MD
2016. The Commonwealth Court's Order, at Paragraph 2, directs the
Department to publicize the Order in the Pennsylvania Bulletin;
notifying the regulated community and public of the correct
compliance dates.
The Commonwealth Court's Order extends the April 8, 2017, deadline
from 25 Pa. Code § 78a.59c(a) to Monday, June 7, 2021, and extends
the October 8, 2019, deadline to Monday, January 8, 2024.
Inquiries concerning this notice should be directed to Elizabeth
Davis, Assistant Counsel, Bureau of Regulatory Counsel, Rachel
Carson State Office Building, P.O. Box 8464, Harrisburg, PA
17105-8464, at elidavis@pa.gov or (717) 787-7060.
PATRICK McDONNELL,
Secretary
<
http://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pabull?file=/secure/pabulletin/data/vol51/51-5/165.html>
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Source:
Reuters
Commodities: Energy
Commodity |
Exchange |
Currency |
Expire |
Last Trade |
Trade Time |
Change |
Open |
Day's High |
Day's Low |
NATURAL
GAS CON1
Feb21 |
NYM |
USD |
02/24 |
2.90 |
02/12 16:59 |
+0.03 |
2.87 |
2.99 |
2.83 |
Data as
of4:15am EST (Delayed at least 20
minutes).
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https://www.reuters.com/finance/commodities/energy>
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Notes:
The data layer for all wells in Fayette County shows 296 wells that
had been operated by Chevron Appalachia now being operated by the
company "EQT CHAP, LLC". This implies that the EQT purchase of the
assets of Chevron Appalachia has closed. These wells are mapped
above with orange squares.
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DEP defines an environmental justice area
as "any census tract where 20 percent or more individuals live in
poverty, and/or 30 percent or more of the population is minority".
(See:
<
https://www.dep.pa.gov/PublicParticipation/OfficeofEnvironmentalJustice/Pages/default.aspx>).
There are supposed to be enhanced public participation requirements
for permits in environmental justice areas, but news of this
actually ever happening is scarce. In Fayette County, the entirety
of Redstone, Springhill, Nicholson, and German Townships are
environmental justice areas, as well as a large part of Dunbar
Township. DEP's policy document on public participation guidelines
for environmental justice areas is located here:
<
https://www.elibrary.dep.state.pa.us/dsweb/Get/Version-48671/012-0501-002.pdf>
eNOTICE records are likely to list the same permit multiple times,
as that permit moves through the DEP process.
Oil & Gas Wells designated with a site a number and the letter H
typically designate horizontal wells.
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Resources:
Pennsylvania Bulletin: <
https://www.pabulletin.com/>
eNOTICE: <
https://www.ahs2.dep.state.pa.us/eNOTICEWeb/>
DEP Oil and Gas Reports: <
https://www.dep.pa.gov/DataandTools/Reports/Oil%20and%20Gas%20Reports/Pages/default.aspx>
DEP Permits Issued Detail Report:
<
http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/Permits_Issued_Detail>
DEP SPUD (drilling started) Report:
<
http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/Spud_External_Data>
DEP Oil and Gas Compliance Report:
<
http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/OG_Compliance>
DEP PA Oil & Gas Mapping:
<
https://www.depgis.state.pa.us/PaOilAndGasMapping>
Data Portal
Services Directory [Technical]
<https://www.depgis.state.pa.us/arcgis/rest/services>
Query: Oil and Gas Wells All (ID: 3) [Technical]:
<https://www.depgis.state.pa.us/arcgis/rest/services/OilGas/OilGasAllStrayGasEGSP/MapServer/3/query?where=&text=&objectIds=&time=&geometry=&geometryType=esriGeometryEnvelope&inSR=&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&relationParam=&outFields=*&returnGeometry=true&returnTrueCurves=false&maxAllowableOffset=&geometryPrecision=&outSR=&returnIdsOnly=false&returnCountOnly=false&orderByFields=&groupByFieldsForStatistics=&outStatistics=&returnZ=false&returnM=false&gdbVersion=&returnDistinctValues=false&resultOffset=&resultRecordCount=&f=html>
(Be sure to enter a Where clause in SQL format. Dates are in
milliseconds since midnight 1/1/1970).
DEP Oil and Gas Electronic Submissions
<
https://www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/eSubmissionPublicSearch>
DEP Air Quality Air Emission Plants Facilities Report
<
http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/AQ/SSRS/AQ_AEP_Facilities>
DEP Oil and Gas Electronic Notifications
<
http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/OG_Notifications>
DEP Oil and Gas Well Pad Report
<
http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/Well_Pads>
Fayette County Assessment Office Search For Tax Records:
<
http://property.co.fayette.pa.us/search.aspx>
Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access:
<
https://www.pasda.psu.edu/default.asp>
DEP Spatial Data Repository:
<
ftp://www.pasda.psu.edu/pub/pasda/dep/>
National Response Center:
<
https://www.nrc.uscg.mil/>
EPA-Echo: <
https://www.epa-echo.gov/echo/compliance_report_air.html>
FERC citizen involvement: <
https://www.ferc.gov/for-citizens/get-involved.asp>
Follow the directions and enter the docket number to subscribe to.
Township Supervisors receive information regarding Erosion
& Sedimentation permits, and these records may be reviewable at
township municipal offices.
DEP permits are reviewable through the File Review process, for
application to do file review see: <
https://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/southwest_regional_office/13775/file_review/593164>
Environmental Hearing Board: <
https://ehb.courtapps.com/public/index.php>
PA DEP Environmental Policy Comment System:
<
https://www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/eComment/>
Federal Register Environment: <
https://www.federalregister.gov/environment>
Browsing of recent comment
opportunities for federal agencies, e.g. EPA. Click "sign up" to
subscribe to daily E-mails of new document listings.
SkyTruth Fayette County Drilling Alerts: <
https://frack.skytruth.org/pennsylvania-frack-alerts/fayette_pa>
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, Public Notices:
<
https://www.lrp.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/Public-Notices/>
EPA Pennsylvania Public Notices: <
https://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-pennsylvania#notice>
Marcellus Shale waste disposal
injection wells in Pennsylvania are regulated directly by EPA, not
DEP. Notice of any new permit applications will appear at the
above web address. I'm not aware of any subscription service
to be notified of such applications. I'm not aware of any
Marcellus Shale waste disposal injection wells in Fayette County
(yet ...) but we need to monitor this page for future
applications.
Energy Assurance Daily: <
https://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/ead.aspx>
Daily newsletter from the US
Department of Energy about events relating to energy. The Natural
Gas section has information about pipelines.
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Disclaimers:
This compilation from the above sources was done in part by hand
using copy and paste and in part using automated methods; it may
omit relevant permits.
Parcel data is provided via the tax
records search web page offered by the Fayette County Assessment
Office (
http://property.co.fayette.pa.us/).
Presumed Parcel Id links are subject to availability provided by
that agency and associated web sites. Presumed Parcel Ids are
determined as the
mapped parcel containing a given latitude
and longitude, are a best effort determination which is subject to
error, and are not official. In cases where a facility is leased and
there is a separate parcel id for the lease, if this parcel id is
not separately mapped, the parcel id shown will be the id for the
enclosing parcel. Parcel owners may be surface owners only and may
or may not have any relationship to oil & gas facilities.
Does not currently include water supply permits. Does not include
landfill permits even though many such are for Marcellus Shale
waste. (It is not possible at this time to distinguish which
landfill permits are for Marcellus Shale waste and which are not
without doing File Review for each permit.)
Erosion & Sedimentation permit records do not currently include
latitude and longitude. Where I am publishing latitude and longitude
with E&S permits it is by inferring an associated well permit
and using published latitude and longitude for the well. It is
possible I may be inferring the wrong well site.
Municipalities are shown from eFACTS records on the DEP web site.
The DEP has been known to list a municipality incorrectly.