Until relatively recently, natural gas-rich shale formations
throughout the United States were not considered to have
significant resource value because no technologies existed to
economically recover the gas. Development and deployment of
advanced drilling and reservoir stimulation methods have
dramatically increased the gas production from these
"unconventional gas shales". The Marcellus Shale formation
potentially represents one of the largest unconventional natural
gas resources in the United States, underlying much of West
Virginia and Pennsylvania, southern New York, eastern Ohio, western
Maryland, and Western Virginia. Directional drilling and "hydraulic
fracturing" are essential to exploiting these low permeability
shale gas resources. Although oil and gas developers have applied
these technologies in conventional oil and natural gas fields for
some time, recent improvements in both technologies have allowed
them to be applied effectively to unconventional gas shales on an
industrial scale. This book reviews the Marcellus Shale resource,
development processes, and related surface water and groundwater
issues.
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