ConocoPhillips blamed a natural gas leak at a North Slope drilling pad on a well component that failed during an operation that put too much pressure on the well.
“We’ve never had anything like this happen before,” she said.did not expect to contain significant amounts of gas
The company mitigated the release on March 8 by flowing gas to the surface through the waste disposal well. On April 8, it said it had brought the source of the release under control. The shoe is a structure at the end of a section of pipe, with cement around it that helps to stabilize the pipe in the rock, said Dan Seamount, a longtime commissioner with the oil and gas commission.
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