Crews dug up and removed contaminated soil
after about 100 gallons of diesel fuel spilled at a natural gas
drilling site in northeastern Pennsylvania.
The spill happened last Friday at a Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. site
near Dimock in Susquehanna County. That's where the Houston-based
company is drilling a number of gas wells into the Marcellus Shale
rock formation.
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection spokesman
Mark Carmon says the spill did not contaminate ground water or
streams.
He said the department ordered Cabot to hire a consultant to
ensure that it removed all the contaminated soil.
Last spring, crews at another nearby Cabot well site had to
clean up about 800 gallons of diesel that spilled.
Officials are also investigating how natural gas seeped into
four nearby private water wells.