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The Marcellus natural gas trend is a large geographic area of prolific shale gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale or Marcellus Formation, of Devonian age, in the eastern United States. [2] The shale play encompasses 104,000 square miles and stretches across Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and into eastern Ohio and western New York. [ 3 ]
White has been a proponent of responsible, accountable drilling of Marcellus Shale, but has also been a critic of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's withholding of data from air and water quality testing conducted near drilling sites. White also led the charge to overturn the portions of Act 13 which would have eliminated ...
Nearby, in the Lehigh Gap area of Pennsylvania, the Marcellus is extensively faulted, [36] and the beds are steeply overturned, with a reverse dip angle of up to 40° south. [30] The Marcellus Shale and the fine-grained shales near the middle of the Mahantango Formation are classified by geologists as slope-formers. [37]
The Marcellus shale, a vast hydrocarbon-bearing formation that spans several states in the Northeast, is widely regarded as the most economical shale gas play in the country. According to Bentek ...
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Following the passage of Act 13 of 2012, Santarsiero was one of six Democratic state representatives who authored the individual bills making up the "Marcellus Compact." Their bills sought to reestablish stronger taxation, stronger environmental protections, and local regulations on natural gas drilling rolled back by Act 13.
Steve Newby, President and Chief Executive Officer of Summit, commented, "The Sherwood asset acquisition represents Summit's initial entry into the Marcellus Shale, one of the largest, most active ...
Pennsylvania's Act 13 is an example of how state law can prohibit local regulation of hydraulic fracturing industries. In states including Ohio and New Mexico, the power to regulate is limited by trade secret provisions and other exemptions exist that preclude companies from disclosing the exact chemical content of their fluids. [ 184 ]