Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a leading independent North American natural gas producer. The company’s reserves are focused in both conventional and unconventional basins in Appalachia, the Rocky Mountains, the Mid-Continent and the Gulf Coast.

See: Cabot Oil & Gas’s Marcellus Drilling to Slow After PA Environment Officials Order Wells Closed. Lustgarten, Abrahm. ProPublica. (2010).

See: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania DEP takes aggressive enforcement action against Cabot Oil

See: Associated Press. December 16, 2010. The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. "Gas driller to pay $4.1 million in settlement."

HARRISBURG — The state Department of Environmental Protection has abandoned its plan to force a Houston-based drilling company to pay nearly $12 million to extend a public water line to residents whose wells have been contaminated with methane gas, citing a lack of political support.

Environmental regulators say Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. instead will pay residents of Dimock a total of $4.1 million under a settlement with the company announced late Wednesday. Cabot also has agreed to pay to install whole-house gas mitigation systems in each of the 19 affected homes.

The settlement infuriated residents, who say the DEP caved to political pressure.

See also:

• Legere. Hazards posed by natural gas drilling are not limited to below ground
• Legere. Cabot and DEP clash over Dimock water contamination
• Lippert. Shale Gas Costing 2/3 Less Than OPEC Oil Incites Water Concern
• Lustgarten. Frack Fluid Spill in Dimock Contaminates Stream, Killing Fish.
• Lustgarten. Pennsylvania Orders Cabot Oil and Gas to Stop Fracturing in Troubled County
• McFerrin. Fight Over Gas Wells in Chief Logan Heads to Supreme Court
• Noell. Natural Gas Drilling Threatens Communities in Northeastern United States
• Piette. Water All Around … Or is There?