SALEM, Ohio — Diversified Energy Corporation will plug more than 2,000 wells over the next 10 years in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee in accordance with a recent settlement agreement in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
In the lawsuit McEvoy v. Diversified Energy and EQT, the companies were alleged to have conducted improper transfer of certain oil and gas wells and Diversified Energy was accused of wrongfully using land by failing to plug non-producing wells.
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