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Marcellus Shale in 2012

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:31:54 +0000

An article on the Boston.com website explores possible developments related to the Marcellus Shale in 2012. A new lease environment, geographic shifts in activity, price directions and more.

Pennsylvania Natural Gas Production is UP

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:06:24 +0000

The Energy Information Administration has a brief article on the rapid increase in natural gas production that has occurred in the northeastern United States since 2004. The largest gains were in northeastern Pennsylvania, southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Natural Gas Horizontal Wells Control Act

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:47:24 +0000

The West Virginia legislature passed a bill known as the “Natural Gas Horizontal Wells Control Act” by a vote of 92-5 in the House of Delegates and by a vote of 33-0 in the Senate. It addresses reclamation, fees that will generate millions in revenue, disclosure to surface owners, hydraulic fracturing chemicals, and much more. A summary can be read on the MarketWatch website.

Refinery for Utica Shale Crude Oil

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:08:47 +0000

Marathon Petroleum is preparing to refine oil produced from the Utica Shale of eastern Ohio and western Pennslyvania. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources estimates that the Utica Shale could yield between 1.3 and 5.5 billion barrels of crude.

Local Workers for Natural Gas Drilling?

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:00:34 +0000

In many parts of the Marcellus Shale gas play local residents are disappointed to see so many workers from over a thousand miles away getting high-paying jobs while local unemployment rates are very high. Letters similar to this one have been published in newspapers across the area underlain by the Marcellus Shale and other shales that produce natural gas..

Hunting Safely in Natural Gas Country

admin — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:24:59 +0000

The Marcellus Shale Coalition website has an article that provides safety advice for people who will be hunting in areas where natural gas drilling is taking place.

Utica Shale Gas Boom in Eastern Ohio

admin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:59:53 +0000

Natural gas companies have drilled a number of highly successful wells into the Utica Shale of eastern Ohio. Now, drilling, permitting, and acquisition activity is starting to boom.

Natural Gas Leases in Conflict with Mortgages

admin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:28:02 +0000

Thousands of people across the United States have signed leases that give energy companies the right to drill on their land. However, many of these properties have mortgages that prohibit the property owner from entering into a mineral lease.

Government Revenue from the Marcellus Shale

admin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:14:00 +0000

State and local governments have either been collecting revenues from Marcellus Shale activities or wishing that they were collecting revenues. An article on Platts.com explores some of the ways that state and local governments are generating revenues.

Who Will Get the Marcellus and Utica Shale Ethane?

admin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:55:40 +0000

Parts of the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale contain worthy amounts of ethane which is a valuable feedstock for the plastics industry. Will it be shipped by pipeline to distant manufacturers or will local manufacturing industries develop?

Marcellus Shale: Separating Spin from Fact?

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:37:46 +0000

An Associated Press article examines how people who favor and oppose Marcellus Shale natural gas development have very different perceptions of problems and opportunities.

Natural Gas Potential of the Upper Devonian Shale

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:54:36 +0000

A sequence of rocks above the Marcellus Shale, known as the “Upper Devonian Shales” might hold significant amounts of recoverable natural gas and natural gas liquids. From top to bottom the Upper Devonian Shales, Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale are the “stacked plays of the Appalachians”.

Utica Shale Speculation?

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:35:33 +0000

Although data is only available for 16 wells drilled into a Utica Shale resource that has a geographic extent of 170,000 square miles, that is not stopping oil and gas companies from spending billions of dollars on acreage.

Natural Gas as a Chemical Industry Feedstock

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:17:56 +0000

An article in the Charleston Daily Mail explains how Marcellus Shale gas can be used as a source of energy and as a feedstock in the chemical manufacturing industry and how these might benefit the West Virginia economy.

Who Has the Power to Regulate Hydraulic Fracturing?

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:18:59 +0000

Communities in New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia have passed bans on hydraulic fracturing within their political boundaries. In some instances these bans have been overturned because the power to regulate of oil and gas drilling belongs to State governments. Now a company in New York has sued a town that passed a ban on drilling.