By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, July 9, 2012
New research has concluded that salty, mineral-rich fluids deep beneath Pennsylvania’s natural gas fields are likely seeping upward thousands of feet into drinking water supplies.
Fluids From Marcellus Shale Likely Seeping Into PA Drinking Water
July 10, 2012
Fluids deep beneath PA’s natural gas fields are likely seeping upward thousands of feet into drinking water supplies
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, July 9, 2012
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, July 9, 2012
A Rash of Earthquakes Appears to be Related to Oil and Gas Drilling
March 30, 2012
EARTHQUAKES: ‘Remarkable’ spate of man-made quakes linked to drilling, USGS team says
By Mike Soraghan, EnergyWire, March 29, 2012
By Mike Soraghan, EnergyWire, March 29, 2012
A rash of earthquakes in the middle of the country appears to be related to oil and gas drilling, according to a group of researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey.
“A … Continue reading
Officials: 4.0 magnitude quake in northeast Ohio related to wastewater injection well
December 31, 2011
By Associated Press
McDONALD, Ohio — Officials said Saturday they believe the latest earthquake activity in northeast Ohio is related to the injection of wastewater into the ground near a fault line, creating enough pressure to cause seismic activity.
The brine wastewater comes from drilling operations that use the so-called … Continue reading
Anthony Ingraffea on Hydraulic Fracturing
December 15, 2011
Fracking and Quaking: They’re Linked
November 18, 2011
Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
And scientists, the military, and frackers themselves have known it for years
The next time a Canadian consumer turns up their natural gas furnace or clicks on that gas burner, he or she may have inadvertently triggered an earthquake. Or a swarm of earthquakes.
Although the … Continue reading
Gas Migration into the Susquehanna River and Surrounding Area . . .
November 15, 2011
Started in September, 2010 and has not stopped.
This is only one of quite a few “incidents,” but is what is the focus here — more examples like Dimock, PA, or the Tioga gas field, or Schreiner in western, PA, Pavillion, Wyoming, etc. THE ITEMS BELOW ARE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER … Continue reading
Drilling, Earthquakes, and Motley Fools
October 15, 2011
Fort Worth Citizens Against Neighborhood Drilling Ordinance (FWCanDo)
CanDo Blogs
CanDo Blogs
From the, “What-is-this-world-coming-to” Department…
The Fort Worth City Council will soon decide if allowing earthquakes inside the city limits is OK. I’ve lost track of the number of earthquakes that have occurred in the Barnett Shale since the beginning of the … Continue reading
Shale Reserve Estimate Slashed
August 24, 2011
Bloomberg News
Wednesday August 24, 2011
Wednesday August 24, 2011
The United States will slash its estimate of undiscovered Marcellus shale natural gas by nearly 80 percent after an updated assessment by government geologists.
The formation, which stretches from New York to Tennessee, contains about 84 trillion cubic feet of gas, the U.S. Geological … Continue reading
Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Devonian Marcellus Shale of the Appalachian Basin Province, 2011
August 15, 2011
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated a mean undiscovered natural gas resource of 84,198 billion cubic feet and a mean undiscovered natural gas liquids resource of 3,379 million barrels in the Devonian Marcellus Shale within the Appalachian Basin Province. All this … Continue reading
Cornell Fracture Group
December 29, 2008
Anthony Ingraffea, Cornell Fracture Group
The CFG members include Prof. Anthony Ingraffea, research associates, and graduate students. The mission of the Cornell Fracture Group is to create, to verify, and to validate computational simulation systems for fracture control in engineered systems. We have included some tutorial and demo simulations to … Continue reading
