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The following map shows Marcellus Shale gas wells in Pennsylvania. They are color-coded by reported production, measured in Mcf, or 1,000 cubic feet of gas produced.
Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) and FracTracker Alliance have created a unique GIS map that enables the public to investigate how shale gas development is changing the face of ...
Josh Shapiro, then the state’s attorney general, released a landmark report with recommendations on regulating fracking.
Fracking in Pennsylvania hasn’t gone as well as some may think. Twenty years after the state's first shale gas well was drilled, jobs comprise less than 1% of the workforce, residents fear health ...
When covid-19 safety precautions postponed the annual after-winter return of Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources staff to keep tabs on the impacts of shale gas ...
Pennsylvania’s natural gas impact fee generated $164.5M in 2024, fueling local projects, job growth, and nearly $3B in ...
For many years, natural gas companies have been producing the fuel from "conventional" gas reservoirs, relatively close to the surface and easily accessible. New shale gas production techniques ...
Pennsylvania's natural-gas output declined last year for the first time since 2005, when shale drilling was just taking off, according to the Energy Information Administration. Production of ...
Abandoned Pennsylvania gas, oil wells ... which obtained a $140,000 grant from shale well impact fee money to plug ... state, university and industry groups are under way to locate, map, assess ...
Shale gas production is growing fastest in the Marcellus as that shale is rich in natural gas and it can be extracted at a low cost. According to Pennsylvania state regulators, production topped 3 ...
Pennsylvania shale gas production is a key issue in the 2024 presidential campaign. Harris supports it, and it has lower emissions than Texas gas. For the Harris campaign, ...
A new study we recently released estimates the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania contributed $41.4 billion in economic activity during 2022, boosting the commonwealth's Gross Domestic Product ...