The Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale is one of the premier gas shale plays of North America in terms of total gas resource, extent, production...
The USGS has conducted numerous assessments of undiscovered oil and gas in the Appalachian Basin, including studies of the Marcellus Shale. The...
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Computed tomography and multi-sensor core logger data for the Armstrong well, primarily Marcellus shale, described in
Paronish, T.; Mackey, P.;...
This chapter will focus on recent progress on the mechanisms of metalloid uptake, metabolism, and detoxification in bacteria, archaea, and...
A USGS study setting a basline for groundwater measures in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania.
Brines having moderate to high salt content (up to 343 grams per liter [g/L]) occupy most pore spaces in rocks below a depth of a few thousand feet...
Cleavage duplexes are zones of platy, spaced cleavage, that either parallel bedding or ramp through shale sections. Examples are 2-60 m thick. The...
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection released data on the amount of gas, condensate and oil produced from the state's Marcellus...
New York State is underlain by numerous bedrock
formations of Cambrian to Devonian age that produce natural gas and to a lesser extent oil. This...
A PowerPoint by John A Harper and Jaime Kostelnick depicting the drilling and completion stages of hydraulic fracturing.
The discovery of large reserves of natural gas in shale formations – shale gas – has been a major positive development for the energy picture of...
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A geochemical context for stray gas investigations in the northern Appalachian Basin: Implications of analyses of natural gases
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Large quantities of highly saline brine flow from gas wells in the Marcellus Formation after hydraulic stimulation (‘‘fracking’’). This study...
A report on the composition of groundwater in an area inside sites where Marcellus Shale is being drilled. The studies performed aimed to determine...
In the last decade, hydraulic fracturing and other new drilling technologies have turned North Texas into the leading shale gas-producing area in...
Increased stray gas abundance in a subset of drinking water wells near Marcellus shale gas extraction
Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing...
