commissioned by state officials determined the October 2015 blowout was caused by a faulty well casing at the former oil field, nestled in the Santa Susana Mountains just north of Los Angeles city limits. The outer casing of well SS-25 ruptured due to microbial corrosion caused by contact with groundwater, the consulting firm Blade Energy Partners found.
of the consultant’s findings. The consultant also found that “updated well safety practices and regulations adopted by [CalGEM] address most of the root causes of the leak” identified during its investigation, the commission wrote.is the requirement that all wells undergo mechanical integrity tests at least once every two years.
Orozco did not suggest a timeframe for lifting the requested temporary suspension. But she did urge the oil and gas regulator to approve a “risk management plan” that SoCalGas submitted in 2019, under which the company might test some wells at Aliso no more than once every 10 years, rather than every two years, based on an assessment of the risks posed by each well.
The Public Utilities Commission has partially loosened its restrictions on Aliso. But SoCalGas has argued that continued limits on gas withdrawals can create supply constraints that at times have forced consumers to pay more for energy, including during a summer 2018 heat wave when price spikesThe gas company’s critics counter that there would be no supply constraints — and no price spikes — if SoCalGas could fix a key pipeline that runs through the desert toward Los Angeles.
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