In March, the Executive Director of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission gave his approval to 39 water use permits for individual shale gas well drilling pads in Bradford, Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Susquehanna, Tioga and Wyoming counties.  (formal notice)

The approvals ranged from 3.2 million gallons a day up to 8 million gallons a day per pad totalling up to 195 million gallons a day.

The companies involved were Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC, Coterra Energy, Inc., Inflection Energy (PA), LLC, JKLM Energy, LLC, PA General Energy Company, Range Resources-Appalachia, LLC, Repsol Oil & Gas USA, LLC, Seneca Resources Company, LLC, STL Resources, LLC and SWN Production Company.

The approvals were granted under SRBC regulation 18 CFR 806.22(e) and (f) that creates a general permit-type process to grant approval for water use by individual shale gas drilling pads.

A separate water withdrawal approval is required by SRBC for actually withdrawing water from a specific water source for use by shale gas drilling operations.  Read more here.

Click Here for the formal notice of the water use approvals in the PA Bulletin.

For more information on programs, training opportunities and upcoming events, visit the Susquehanna River Basin Commission website.  Click Here to sign up for SRBC’s newsletter.   Follow SRBC on Twitter, visit them on YouTube.

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PA Oil & Gas Public Notice Dashboards:

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 15 to 21; 10 Abandoned Well NOVs; New Crude Oil Leak; Defective Casing/Cementing  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 22  [PaEN]

-- DEP Posts 75 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 22 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 

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[Posted: April 21, 2023]

4/24/2023