Tag: oil and gas
Shale gas development spurs invasive plant spread in Pa. forests
A team of researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has found that invasive plants are increasing with natural gas development.
API releases 50-state analysis of natural gas benefits
Natural gas contributed $51B to the Ohio and Pennsylvania economies in 2015.
New map lets Pa. identify abandoned oil, gas wells
The Pennsylvania DEP has taken a major step toward identifying abandoned wells drilled over the past 150 years of oil and gas development.
Thai energy company buys wells in Pa. Marcellus shale
Kalnin Ventures, on behalf of Thai energy giant Banpu, buys 34 wells in the Marcellus shale of Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, from Zena Energy.
Oil and gas drilling permits climbing in Ohio, Pa.
There were 268 oil and gas drilling permits issued in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale play, and 112 permits issued in Ohio’s Utica play in March/April.
Oil and gas royalty workshop offered
Farm royalty owners face many legal and financial risks associated with oil and natural gas leasing.
A record? Ohio well’s horizontal leg stretches 19,300 feet
Eclipse Resources Corporation successfully drilled its newest record-setting “super-lateral” well, the Great Scott 3H in less than 17 days. The Ohio well had a total measured depth of 27,400 feet and lateral extension of 19,300 feet.
Natural gas to be largest source of U.S. electricity generation
The Energy Information Administration expects that electricity generation fueled by natural gas will continue to exceed that of any other fuel.
Huge potential of natural gas
Shale gas plays are large enough to replace all U.S. oil imports.
Keeping Ohio’s shale money local
Ohio lawmakers back bill to keep shale money in shale communities.
