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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dozens of Range Resources well sites were recently found out ... DEP on June 26 sent a letter to all unconventional oil and gas operators that fracked into the Marcellus and Utica shale regions of ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — State regulators claim a strong record of oil and gas drilling oversight, but their own reports reveal thousands of unplugged abandoned wells and other industrial problems ...

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 ...

Upper Burrell supervisors on Wednesday approved the fourth Marcellus shale well in the township known as the Hephaestus well pad. Other unconventional gas wells in the township include the Selene ...

Upper Burrell supervisors What: Conditional use hearing on proposed Marcellus shale well along White Cloud Road. When: April 7, immediately following supervisors' regular meeting at 7 p.m. Where ...

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 ...