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The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is a natural gas pipeline constructed from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia. The MVP is 303 miles (488 km) long, and there is also a proposed Southgate Extension which will run 75 miles (121 km) from Virginia into North Carolina. [ 1 ]
SkyTruth's FrackFinder project utilizes public crowd sourcing to map fracking operations on the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations. [8] SkyTruth has mapped out fracking well pads and retainment ponds in Pennsylvania , Ohio , and West Virginia , with further plans to quantify the total impact halos of fracking operations underway.
Environmental Protection Agency illustration of the water cycle of hydraulic fracturing. Fracking in the United States began in 1949. [1] According to the Department of Energy (DOE), by 2013 at least two million oil and gas wells in the US had been hydraulically fractured, and that of new wells being drilled, up to 95% are hydraulically fractured.
In 2009, a total fish kill occurred in Dunkard Creek, which runs between West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The culprit was a type of algae that can only live in salt-water environments. Because the ...
The shale play encompasses 104,000 square miles and stretches across Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and into eastern Ohio and western New York. [3] In 2012, it was the largest source of natural gas in the United States, and production was still growing rapidly in 2013.
Later the methane was linked to nearby fracking operations. [174] [175] January 1, 2015 – Irving, earthquake [176] May 7, 2015 - An oil tank battery caught fire, north of Whitesboro. [177] May 19, 2015 – Fracking well blew out in Karnes County, Texas, spraying a toxic mix of chemicals, and forcing the evacuation of 20 families. [178] [179]
US shale gas basins, 2011. Shale gas in the United States is an available source of unconventional natural gas.Led by new applications of hydraulic fracturing technology and horizontal drilling, development of new sources of shale gas has offset declines in production from conventional gas reservoirs, and has led to major increases in reserves of U.S. natural gas.
After the earthquake, several websites speculated about whether hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for natural gas production could have caused or contributed to the quake. [12] [13] There were not any fracking operations in Virginia at the time of the quake. The nearest fracking was occurring in the Marcellus shale in West Virginia. [12] [14]