Companies involved in the natural gas well blowout in eastern Wyoming on April 24 won’t face fines, even if it’s proven their workers were solely responsible for losing control of the well, Wyoming’s top oil and gas regulator says.

Tom Doll, Wyoming’s oil and gas supervisor, said well-owner Chesapeake Energy Corp. and drill rig-owner Trinidad Drilling Ltd., won’t face any citations for the blowout, which didn’t cause any injuries but vented up to 2 million cubic feet of explosive gas and 31,500 gallons of drilling fluid into the air and around the drill site near Douglas.

“Word is getting out to other interested people,” Doll said. “So it should be a best management practice and lesson learned that this is something that needs a little more attention, if that’s what we find.” MORE …

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