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Posted on November 20, 2022
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The Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area leak in Cambria County is proving difficult to stop, while bringing worrisome comparisons to the Aliso Canyon and Powhatan Point incidents, where huge volumes of methane reached the atmosphere. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas that contributes… Continue Reading “Massive Leak at Gas Storage Area in Western PA”
Category: climate change, gas infrastructure, Leaking gas wells, methane, natural gas, Oil and gas accidents, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania air quality, Safety, SW PennsylvaniaTags: blowout, Cambria County, climate change, Equitrans, Equitrans LP, gas storage, global warming, methane, methane emissions, methane gas, natural gas, natural gas leaks, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania DEP, Rager Mountain Gas Storage
Posted on November 14, 2022
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The following DEP notices were published in the November 12 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. By David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest Blog Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups — Lower Mount… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania DEP Permit Notices | Compliance Dashboard | Nov 5-12, 2022”
Category: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Bulletin, Petrochemicals, Pipelines, SW Pennsylvania, Washington County PATags: Armstrong County, Beaver County, Bradford County, Chevron, Clinton County, cracker plant, Delaware County, Elk County, EQT, FERC, gas wells, Governor Shapiro, Greene County, Lycoming County, methane, NFG, Northampton County, oil and gas, Pennsylvania DEP, Range Resources, Senator Fetterman, Susquehanna County, unconventional wells, Warren County, Washington County Pennsylvania
Posted on November 11, 2022
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FERC is taking public comments on the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) until 5:00pm ET on November 21, 2022 Mike Tony reports in the October 26, 2022 Charleston Gazette-Mail: Equitrans LP, subsidiary of Mountain Valley Pipeline lead developer Equitrans Midstream Corp., has proposed construction… Continue Reading “Proposed Pipeline Expansion in WV, Ohio & PA – Comment Period Open”
Category: Pennsylvania, PipelinesTags: air pollution, carbon dioxide, compressor stations, Corona Compressor Station, Cygrymus Compressor Station, Equitrans, Equitrans LP, forest fragmentation, formaldehyde, methane, Mountain Valley Pipeline, NOx, Ohio, Ohio Valley Connector Expansion, particulate matter, pipeline, pipelines, Plasma Compressor Station, PM10, PM2.5, trees removed, VOC, West Virginia
Posted on November 8, 2022
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Story by Karen Mansfield of the Observer-Reporter on November 8, 2022 reports: Two South Strabane Township homes test positive for methane November 8, 2022 – South Strabane Township Department of Fire and Emergency Management and the Washington County Department of Public Safety on Sunday… Continue Reading “Old Well / New Well Communication Possible in South Strabane Twp PA?”
Category: Abandoned Wells, methane, Oil and Gas, PennsylvaniaTags: fracking, gas well, gas well communication, LEL, Lower Explosive Level, methane, Pennsylvania DEP, Scout Drive, South Strabane Township
Posted on November 7, 2022
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Lawsuit filed October 28, 2022 in Washington County, Pennsylvania Washington County Courthouse Latkanich v. Chevron et al PFAS: The latest toxic concern for those near fracking By Kristina Marusic | Environmental Health News | August 4, 2022 For more than a decade, Bryan Latkanich… Continue Reading “LANDMARK LAWSUIT: Latkanich v Chevron, EQT, PFAS Defendants”
Category: Litigation, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Pennsylvania, PFAS, SW Pennsylvania, Washington County PATags: acetone, air contamination, barium, benzaldehyde, benzene, biocides, butyl cyclohexane, chemicals, Chevron, Crawford County, drill sites, drilling, drinking water, E&S, EQT, ethyltoluene, flaring, formaldehyde, frac fluid, fracking, Fredericktown, gas infrastructure, hippuric acid, hydraulic fracturing, impoundments, Latkanich, lawsuits, Marcellus Shale, Martins Ferry, methane, napthalene, NORM, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, PFAS, PFOA, PFOS, pits, pollution, polyethylene glycol, produced water, radiation, radioactive waste, radium, spills, strontium, styrene, tetradecane, thorium, toluene, toxins, transmuconic acid, Utica Shale, VOCs, water contamination, water well, wells, xylene
Posted on November 4, 2022
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Photo by Governor Tom Wolf from Harrisburg, PA Governor Wolf Portrait, CC BY 2.0, Source In one of his final acts as Pennsylvania’s governor, Tom Wolf signed a huge, multi-billion dollar taxpayer giveaway, in large part to the oil and gas industry. Stephen Caruso… Continue Reading “Governor Tom Wolf’s Fracking Legacy”
Category: climate change, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania legislature, SW Pennsylvania, Utica shale, Washington County PATags: blue hydrogen, climate change, drilling, fracking, Governor Wolf, Harrisburg, HB1059, hydraulic fracturing, hydrogen, hydrogen hub, Marcellus Shale, methane, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Legislature
Posted on October 27, 2022
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Passed in Hours with No Public Accountability or Environmental Safeguards By David E. Hess | PA Environment Blog | October 27, 2022 On October 26, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported out House Bill 1059 (Hickernell-R-Lancaster) after amending it to provide $106.6 million in annual… Continue Reading “PA Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies for Fracked Gas, Hydrogen & Petrochemicals”
Category: climate change, Pennsylvania, Petrochemicals, Pipelines, Shell Cracker PlantTags: air pollution, Beaver County, biomedical, blue hydrogen, David E Hess, drilling, fertilizer, fracking, Governor Wolf, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, hydrogen, Marcellus Shale, methane, milk, natural gas, oil and gas, PA Edge, PA Environment Digest Blog, Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, Pennsylvania taxpayers, petrochemicals, semiconductor, Shell Cracker Plant, taxpayer subsidies, water pollution
Posted on October 6, 2022
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The following DEP and Susquehanna River Basin Commission notices were published in the October 1 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industrial facilities. Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. Compiled by David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest Blog… Continue Reading “Oil and Gas Facility Public Notices in PA”
Category: PA oil and gas notices, PennsylvaniaTags: air quality, Allegheny County, Armstrong County, Beaver County, Berks County, Bradford County, compressor stations, drilling, Elk County, encroachment permits, erosion and sedimentation, fracking, gas processing, gas wells, Greene County, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, McKean County, methane, oil and gas, pipelines, SHELL, SRBC, Susquehanna County, Susquehanna River, Tioga County, Washington County, water withdrawal, Westmoreland County, Wyoming County
Posted on October 5, 2022
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Methane Might Be a Bigger Climate Problem Than Thought, Study Finds September 29, 2022 story in The New York Times by Henry Fountain: The oil industry practice of burning unwanted methane is less effective than previously assumed, scientists said Thursday, resulting in new estimates… Continue Reading “RESEARCHERS: Flaring Doesn’t Always Work as Intended”
Category: Air pollution, methane, natural gas, Oil and GasTags: emissions, flares, flaring, fracking, GHG, greenhouse gas, methane, oil and gas, oil production
Posted on September 21, 2022
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Hydrogen and carbon capture talk visits Pittsburgh during the Global Clean Energy Action Forum. The Infrastructure Act’s provision of $8 billion in subsidies for four hydrogen hubs has set off a race among fossil fuel states to position themselves as the leaders for blue hydrogen and CCUS technologies. … Continue Reading “Blue Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Hype”
Category: Blue hydrogen, Carbon capture, fossil fuels, gas infrastructure, Marcellus shale, Ohio, Ohio River Valley, Pittsburgh, West VirginiaTags: blue hydrogen, carbon, carbon capture, Clean Energy Ministerial, climate convergence, gas drilling, Global Clean Energy Action Forum, methane
Posted on September 13, 2022
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Threatens to Put PA’s Taxpayer-Funded Well Plugging Program Even Further Behind By David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest Blog | September 6, 2022 The pace of companies abandoning conventional oil and natural gas wells without plugging them continues to accelerate in 2022 threatening… Continue Reading “PA: Conventional O&G Companies Accelerating Pace of Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them”
Category: Abandoned Wells, methane, natural gas, Oil & Gas Contamination, Oil and Gas, Pennsylvania, Well pluggingTags: abandoned wells, drilling, gas wells, methane, oil and gas drilling, oil wells, orphaned wells, PA DEP, Pennsylvania taxpayers
Posted on September 4, 2022
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In this newly released 41-minute video, we get a behind-the-scenes look at the turmoil and travesty of those ‘Dimocked’ by shale gas production, and the 9 square mile area of Pennsylvania that was once banned from further fracking. Hear about the shortcomings of state… Continue Reading “EXCLUSIVE: The Story Behind ‘Fracked Water Wells’ in Dimock PA”
Category: Dimock Pennsylvania, fossil fuels, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus shale, Susquehanna CountyTags: Dimock, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, methane, NEPA, oil and gas, Pennsylvania Wilds, water wells
Posted on September 3, 2022
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Funding From Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law On August 25, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced it has formally awarded an initial $560 million from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 24 states to begin work to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and… Continue Reading “US Department of Interior Awards Pennsylvania $25 Million in Conventional Oil and Gas Well Plugging”
Posted on August 20, 2022
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‘We never had cancer or anything like that before, and in one year, we had over 13 people diagnosed with cancer… all within a mile of my house’ Those were the headlines written by reporter Shauna Corr in an August 8, 2022 story and… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania man whose life was destroyed by fracking urges Irish Government to block Shannon LNG“
Category: climate change, Ireland, LNG, PennsylvaniaTags: Dimock, drilling, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, methane, oil and gas, renewable energy, Susquehanna County
Posted on August 15, 2022
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Here are some mentions of “methane” related to oil and gas production: DEFINITION OF GREENHOUSE GAS.—In this section, the term ‘‘greenhouse gas’’ means the air pollutants carbon dioxide, hydrofluorocarbons, methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride. H. R. 5376—241 & 242 SEC. 50263. ROYALTIES… Continue Reading “METHANE is mentioned 47-times in the 273-pages of H.R. 5376 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)”
Posted on August 14, 2022
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By Lisa Graves-Marcucci | EIP | August 10, 2022 Reprinted from Oil and Gas Watch Tucked into the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania are rural communities once home to generational farmland – Smith Township among them. The blessings of prime open spaces once reserved for… Continue Reading “Natural gas development transforms Pennsylvania farmland”
Category: gas infrastructureTags: cryogenic gas plant, cryogenic plants, EIP, ethane, flaring, gas processing, Lisa Graves-Marcucci, Marcellus Shale, methane, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Smith Township, Washington County Pennsylvania
Posted on August 8, 2022
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GUEST POST: Republicans on House Committee Disapprove Final Reg. To Reduce VOC/Methane Emissions from Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities Risking $500 Million In Federal Highway Funds By David E. Hess / PA Environment Digest / August 2, 2022 On August 2, Republicans on the… Continue Reading “PA Republicans Risk Losing $500 Million in Federal Highway Funds”
Category: PennsylvaniaTags: birth defects, children, EDF, EEN, Evangelical Environmental Network, federal highway funds, GOP, IRRC, methane, methane emissions, PA Environmental Council, premies, unborn, unconventional gas wells, VOCs
Posted on August 6, 2022
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PBS FRONTLINE Series Links to all 3 videos: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-power-of-big-oil/ DESCRIPTION In an epic three-part documentary series, FRONTLINE investigates the decades-long failure to confront the threat of climate change and the role of the fossil fuel industry. Part One charts the fossil fuel industry’s early… Continue Reading “WATCH: The Power of Big Oil – 3 Parts”
Posted on August 4, 2022
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Hickory and Mt. Pleasant Township were ground zero when Marcellus Shale fracking began in Pennsylvania back in 2004. As with many communities, gas development became an extremely divisive issue among neighbors. Today’s story by Mike Jones in the Observer-Reporter, DEP investigating mysterious odor emitted… Continue Reading “What’s That Smell?”
Category: Pennsylvania, Washington County PATags: centralized impoundment dams, emissions, gas pipelines, gas wells, Hickory Pa, Marcellus Shale, methane, Mt Pleasant Township, oil and gas, pig launchers, radioactive waste, Radium 226, shale gas, shale waste, waste pits
Posted on July 22, 2022
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Let’s call it the “Joe-Joe Dilemma” — and we aren’t talking cookies. More like “all the marbles.” Blockage of climate action by Senator Joe Machin could now lead to ‘climate emergency’ action taken by President Joe Biden. Things like ending offshore drilling, banning U.S.… Continue Reading “An End to US Oil Exports and Offshore Drilling?”
Category: climate change, Climate crisis, fossil fuels, LNG, President Biden, renewable energyTags: climate emergency, Congress, Defense Production Act, global warming, Joe Manchin, methane, oil and gas, oil exports, renewable energy, solar energy, US exports
Posted on July 13, 2022
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You can thank ‘frac happy’ Republican legislators like Yaw and Metcalfe for keeping our Commonwealth in the ‘stone ages’ when it comes to promoting a healthy environment. Also, their latest ‘gas buddy’ enabling efforts will likely cause Pennsylvania to lose federal highway funds. David… Continue Reading “Backwards Pennsylvania”
Category: climate change, energy, fossil fuels, Pennsylvania legislatureTags: air pollution, conventional gas wells, Daryl Metcalfe, drilling, emissions, environment, federal highway funds, fracking, Gene Yaw, GOP, Harrisburg, Marcellus Shale, methane, oil and gas, Pennsylvania Constitution, unconventional gas wells, VOCs
Posted on July 2, 2022
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Today’s Pennsylvania Bulletin includes an “Intent to Issue an Operating Permit under the Air Pollution Control Act” for the Welling Compressor Station at 165 Carlisle Road, Claysville, PA 15323. The Welling is one of the largest compressor stations in our county, one of over… Continue Reading “AIR POLLUTION: Welling Compressor Station in Washington County, PA”
Category: air quality, climate change, gas infrastructure, PennsylvaniaTags: asthma, benzene, Buffalo Township, Code Orange, compressor stations, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, fossil fuels, HAPs, methane, midstream, natural gas, NOx, ozone, Pennsylvania DEP, pipelines, PM10, shale gas, SOx, toluene, VOCs, Washington County, Welling Compressor Station, xylenes
Posted on June 11, 2022
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Allegheny County Council held a public hearing June 9, 2022 on legislation to prevent the leasing of additional county parks for gas production activities, following the non-surface oil and gas lease signed in October 2014 for Deer Lakes Park, to allow hydraulic fracturing under… Continue Reading “‘Protect Our Parks’ in Allegheny County, PA”
Category: Allegheny County PA, Pennsylvania, PittsburghTags: Deer Lakes Park, drilling, fracking, gas lease, gas wells, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, methane, oil and gas, Rich Fitzgerald
Posted on June 7, 2022
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Today’s PA Environment Digest Blog contained important testimony from the Pennsylvania Senate Hearing held last Thursday and seen in its entirety in this video. Brian S. Schwartz, MD, MS laid it out with crystal clarity in his June 2, 2022 testimony: “We’ve studied asthma… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania Must Act”
Category: Fracking Health Risks, PennsylvaniaTags: asthma, congestive heart failure, COPD, diagnoses, Dr Brian Schwartz, drilling, fracking, gas wells, Geisinger Health, health studies, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, Maryland, mental health, methane, New York, oil and gas, pregnancies, preterm births
Posted on May 26, 2022
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Have you fallen victim to the oil and gas industry’s disinformation campaign? Have a listen to this new Podcast, or read the transcript, to find out for yourself: New Research: Big Fossil’s Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine“In the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,… Continue Reading “Oil and Gas Industry’s “Disaster Capitalism””
Category: climate change, fossil fuels, PennsylvaniaTags: API, climate policy, drilling, EarthWorks, frac sand, fracking, global warming, hydraulic fracturing, LNG, Marcellus Shale, methane, natural gas, Ohio, oil and gas, renewable energy, shale gas, Sharon Wilson, solar energy, Texas, Ukraine, US Chamber of Commerce, Utica Shale, West Virginia
Posted on May 17, 2022
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If you take a look at how much Texas nets from its severance tax on oil and gas production, you realize how badly Pennsylvanians are getting screwed with mere ‘chump change’ impact fees. There have been multiple efforts over the years, the latest by… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania’s Impact Fee is ‘Chump Change’”
Category: Pennsylvania, UncategorizedTags: Cross Creek County Park, drilling, ethane, exports, fracking, gas liquids, gas wells, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, impact fee, LNG, Marcellus Shale, Mariner East, methane, oil and gas revenues, politicians, propane, resource curse, taxpayers, Washington County
Posted on May 5, 2022
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In addition to a tornado warning —that had us eating supper in our basement at 6:00PM Tuesday evening— the third segment of this PBS Frontline documentary aired later that same evening. I recognized a couple powerful allies in the oil & gas air pollution… Continue Reading “‘The Power of Big Oil: Part 3 – Delay’”
Category: climate change, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, water pollutionTags: acrylonitrile, air pollution, brominated trihalomethanes, BTEX, chloroform, drilling, drilling waste, FLIR, fracking, global warming, Hickory Pa, Marcellus Shale, methane, Monongahela River, Mt Pleasant Township, natural gas, NORM, NOx, oil and gas, Pennsylvania renewables, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, shale gas, tapwater, TENORM, trihalomethanes, VOC, water buffalo, water wells
Posted on May 1, 2022
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On April 28, the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Concerned Health Professionals of New York released their Eighth Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking and Associated Gas and Oil Infrastructure. The Compendium is a collection of… Continue Reading “Risks and Harms of Fracking and Oil and Gas Infrastructure”
Category: Fracking Health Risks, PennsylvaniaTags: air pollution, drilling, ethane, frac, hydraulic fracturing, LNG, Marcellus Shale, methane, methane gas, natural gas, Ohio, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, Radium 226, Radium 228, Utica Shale, wastewater, water pollution, well pad, West Virginia
Posted on April 16, 2022
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The Environmental Health Project has just released its White Paper, “Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect Public Health and What We Can Do to Correct It“ The Environmental Health Project recently presented its white paper at the Pennsylvania State Capitol… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom – How Policy Decisions Failed”
Category: PennsylvaniaTags: BTEX, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, drill rig, EHP, Environmental Health Project, formaldehyde, fracking, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, methane, public health, shale gas, Washington County, Washington County Pennsylvania
Posted on April 13, 2022
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Yesterday’s Zoom presentation by that same title was quite alarming, especially for those of us living in Pennsylvania, where Diversified Energy now owns over 22,000 oil and gas wells. Diversified actually owns more wells in the United States than Exxon, or any other oil… Continue Reading ““DIVERSIFIED ENERGY: Business Model Built to Fail Appalachia””
Category: PennsylvaniaTags: climate change, conventional wells, Diversified Energy, GHG, global warming, greenhouse gas, Kathy Hipple, London Stock Exchange, LSE, methane, methane emissions, Ohio, Ohio River Valley Institute, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, stripper wells, Ted Boettner, Tony Ingraffea, unconventional wells, West Virginia
Posted on April 11, 2022
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(UPDATED: FULL REPORT AND APPENDICES LINKED BELOW) In the big push by GOP candidates in the US Senate and Pennsylvania gubernatorial races for an accelerated amount of drilling and fracking in our Keystone state, these candidates are ignoring an existing problem with fugitive methane… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania has a Methane Problem”
Category: methane, PennsylvaniaTags: Bill McSwain, Dave White, Diversified Gas and Oil, Dr Oz, gas wells, GHG, global warming, Joe Manchin, Josh Shapiro, Lou Barletta, methane, methane emissions, Washington County Pennsylvania
Posted on April 4, 2022
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You really need this sort of birds eye view to fully realize the widespread oil and gas development that’s taken place in western Pennsylvania since 2004, when the first Marcellus Shale gas well was drilled in Westland, Mount Pleasant Township, Pennsylvania, followed by more… Continue Reading “Birds Eye View of Pennsylvania Gas Production”
Category: Marcellus shale, PennsylvaniaTags: cryogenic gas plant, drilling, ethane, gas liquids, gas production, Hickory Pa, McDonald Pa, methane, methane gas, propane, Smith Township, Washington County