State investigators found Cabot's drilling had caused gas to migrate into her well.
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Many more states could collect billions of dollars in energy-related revenue if they and the feds allowed more drilling on state and federal lands and offshore.
The story begins in 1992, when an army unit from Lanzhou in neighbouring Gansu province, drilling with state permission, made a decent oil find in Jingbian county.
While the Administration has some ability to affect oil drilling on state and private lands (e.g. indirectly via EPA rules and regulations), most of its authority is limited to Federal lands.