Gas Exploration: Encana Does It Right

Encana Oil & Gas USA Inc. has installed its first gas exploration well in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. And to ensure residents that security measures are taken to prevent a blowout (such as experienced in the Gulf of Mexico by a BP oil rig) the company is talking to residents about the design. In addition to fail-safe mechanisms on the well, safety measures include a geosynthetic liner on the well pad, automated controlled to reduce human presence need on site, and a secondary containment layer beneath the diesel tank. The company reports that nearly every system component has two or three containment measures.