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Discussing the Marcellus & Utica Shale in the states of OH, PA, WV & NY.
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GoMarcellusShale.com. 567 likes. All things pertaining to leasing, drilling and production in the Marcellus and Utica Shale plays.
The Marcellus shale, located thousands of feet underground, experiences enormous compressive forces. In order to push the rocks apart and make them fracture, operators need to overcome these forces. They do this by pumping water into the rock formations.
The “new” Marcellus shale play began in 2003, when Range Resources drilled a well through the Marcellus down to the Lower Silurian in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Targeted reservoirs were not productive, but the Marcellus showed promise and was successfully completed in 2004.
The Marcellus Shale is a large black shale deposit extending for 54,000 square miles (139,860 square kilometers) under Ohio, West Virginia, northwest Pennsylvania and southern New York (US Department of Energy).
1 dzień temu · November 05, 2024 5:00 AM. There have been reports that Ohio is sitting on the largest growth oil play in the lower 48 states. Many of us remember the natural gas boom of 2010. The benefits Pennsylvania enjoyed because of the Marcellus Shale play were also being felt in the Mahoning Valley, which became the supply chain capital for the industry.
