Nearly 1,600 Marcellus Shale gas well drilling permits have been issued by the state so far this year, more than triple the number issued in all of 2008. The statistics, compiled by the state ...

In 2003 Range didn't have much going for it beyond a small position in the Barnett Shale in Texas and 9,000 worn-out gas wells across the Appalachian basin that had been producing for 25 years.

The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 8,140 ft in the Huntersville Chert, penetrating 83 vertical ft of Marcellus shale. The well was logged, plugged back, and then CNX cut a horizontal ...

Despite a slow down in the number of new natural gas wells in the Marcellus Shale region of Northeast Pennsylvania, new research led by Drexel University finds that atmospheric methane levels in the ...

The "blowout" at a Marcellus Shale gas well in Clearfield County that spewed natural gas and toxic fluids into the air for 16 hours on June 3 and 4 was "easily preventable and should never have ...

DEP Reports Marcellus Shale Well Blowout Incident Marks Second Since June. Share Copy Link. Copy {copyShortcut} to copy Updated: 4:44 AM EST Jan 25, 2011 Advertisement DEP ...

Based on “Innovative Modeling to Quantify the Impact of Natural Fractures, Optimize Well Spacing and Increase Productivity in the Marcellus Shale,” URTeC 5271, Unconventional Resources ...

As New York gears up for gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery about the wastewater created by the process: It's radioactive. And they ...

State investigators say there was minimal environmental damage from an explosion that sparked a large fire and injured three workers Wednesday night at a Marcellus Shale natural gas well site in ...

Despite all the excitement and fear surrounding the development of the Marcellus shale, few seem to understand what the Marcellus shale is or how it got there. Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary ...