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A quarter of Aliso Canyon’s operational wells plugged weeks after injections restart
Publication date: 14 September 2017
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The operator of the troubled Aliso Canyon gas storage facility in California has downplayed reports that its facility is unsafe and emanating dangerous methane fumes, despite airborne monitors detecting spikes of methane and operator SoCalGas plugging a quarter of its wells.
Sempra Energy’s subsidiary SoCalGas pulled 13 of its 39 operational wells out of service last month, weeks after it began re-injecting gas following a methane leak at the site in 2015, which emitted...