Marcellus Shale Citizens’ Guide Prepared by the National Sea Grant Law Center & Pennsylvania Sea Grant Fall 2010 NSGLC-10-04-08 Table of Contents Introduction. 1 Leasing and Regulatory...
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Oil and Gas maintains violation data on their website (download the Excel file). The following is a summary of Marcellus Shale vi...
The Marcellus Shale of the Appalachian Basin is one of the largest unconventional gas plays in the United States.
Click on the map for a dynamic view and for more information. [map removed] I have posted updates of West Virginia’s Marcellus Shale permit and well data onto our FracTracker DataTool. The informat...
News & Resources -- Drilling for Natural Gas in the Marcellus & Utica Shale
Three new West Virginia datasets have been added to the DataTool to keep up to date with Marcellus Shale activities in that state. The West Virginia DEP is the source for all three datasets. Includ...
State geologists in Ohio have for the first time linked earthquake activity in the Marcellus Shale basin to hydraulic fracturing, confirming the suspicions of activists pushing for drilling limits...
As outlined in Executive Order 2011-01, the Commission undertook a broad review of a multitude of issues related to Marcellus Shale natural gas development. The review included examining...
Some Background on Marcellus Shale ; Marcellus Shale is an enormous natural gas bearing layer of shale rock approximately 1 mile beneath the earth’s surface, extending from New York’s Southern Tier, through the western half of Pennsylvania and into Ohio and West Virginia. It is estimated to be the second largest natural gas bearing shale formation in the world. Small-scale drilling in Marcellus Shale has occurred for decades with rigs boring vertical wells into the shale bed that intersect w...
The Marcellus Formation or the Marcellus Shale is a Middle Devonian age unit of sedimentary rock found in eastern North America. Named for a distinctive outcrop near the village of...