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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 ]
The Marcellus Formation or the Marcellus Shale is a Middle Devonian age unit of sedimentary rock found in eastern North America. Named for a distinctive outcrop near the village of Marcellus , New York , in the United States , [ 3 ] it extends throughout much of the Appalachian Basin .
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 ...
The completed pipeline has a capacity of 2 million dekatherms (Dths) of natural gas per day (approximately 200 TWh per year), with gas produced from the Marcellus and Utica shale formations. The pipeline was met with opposition in the form of legal challenges, regulatory hurdles, direct action and destruction of property.
Gastar Exploration (ASE: GST) is one of the latest energy companies looking to cash in on the Marcellus Shale natural gas play. The company got its first two horizontal wells up and running at the ...
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The Mahantango Formation is typically found conformably overlying the Marcellus Formation, and underlying the Tully Limestone (where present). [9] The Mahantango has been divided into four members: [10] Tully Limestone: a fossiliferous calcareous shale. The Tully is a conspicuous formation, which separates the Mahantango from the Hamilton Group ...
Antero is a leading Marcellus Shale producer with over 312,000 net acres in the southwestern core of the play. In northern West Virginia, Antero has 14 drilling rigs currently in operation and has ...