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Tour Marcellus Shale Drilling Site

1 week 2 days ago

The December edition of Focus on Pennsylvania follows Sen. Mary Jo White (R-Venango) and Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) as they tour Chief Oil&Gas Marcellus Shale natural gas operations in Lycoming County. more»

Interesting Economic Upside to Gas Drilling

3 weeks 1 day ago

Northern Pennsylvania charities – hospitals, libraries and scholarship funds – expect to benefit from the royalties and lease deals linked with landowner coalitions in Wayne and Susquehanna counties. more»

DEP Issues Industrial Wastewater Discharge Permit

3 weeks 4 days ago

DEP Issues Industrial Wastewater Discharge Permit to Williamsport’s TerrAqua Resource Management
First New Permit for Treating Drilling Wastewater to Be Issued in West Branch Susquehanna River Watershed
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Understanding Units and Managing Bonuses and Royalties

4 weeks 1 day ago

LAPORTE -- Penn State Cooperative Extension will be holding a workshop, “Marcellus Shale – Understanding Units&Managing Bonuses and Royalties” on Saturday, February 27th, 2010 at the Sullivan County High School, Beech & South Streets, Laporte, PA in the auditorium.   The meeting will start at 9:30 AM and end at approximately 12:00 noon.  Speakers include Extension, legal, and fi more»

DCNR to Lease 32,000 Acres to Gas Drilling Companies

7 weeks 5 days ago

DCNR gas lease bids, involving 32,000 acres on six land tracts in Moshannon, Sproul, Elk, Susquehannock and Tioga state forests, have been opened and the reslt is $128 million for the cash-strapped state.
Five firms were the top bidders:

Tract 001     Seneca Resources Corporation        $23,253,125.00 more»

Manage Marcellus Shale Royalty Income

9 weeks 9 hours ago

Penn State Cooperative Extension will be holding a workshop, “Marcellus Shale – Potential Royalty Income and How to Manage It” on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 at the Tioga County Fairgrounds, 2258 Charleston Rd., Wellsboro, PA.    more»

Bull's Eye on Cowanesque Lake

9 weeks 2 days ago

Yesterday, on a trip home from New York State, my husband and I drove south on Route 15. Soon after crossing the state line and entering Tioga County, the sign for Cowanesque Lake caught my eye and I made a mental note to remind him that we need to our take our little sailboat there and explore the lake this summer. more»

Gas Rush of ’09

9 weeks 4 days ago

BRADFORD COUNTY, Pa. -- Reporter Steve Reilly of the Morning Times writes that there have been “383 Marcellus Shale drilling permits granted in Bradford County — more than any in other county in Pennsylvania.” more»

East Resources to Contribute $750,000 to Monitoring Network

12 weeks 2 days ago

SRBC announced on December 10 it will begin in early 2010 installing a monitoring network that will continuously measure and report water quality conditions of smaller rivers and streams located in northern tier Pennsylvania and southern tier New York.  SRBC will receive the data collected by the network and will make it available to other resource agencies and the public through its web site more»

Range Resources: Pioneers in PA Natural Gas

13 weeks 2 days ago

According to natural gas giant Range Resources of Fort Worth, Texas, interest in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale deposits exploded in 2008 once the company posted its quarterly operating results.

"That's when the bulls eye got painted on Pennsylvania," said Ray Walker, vice president of Range's Marcellus Shale division. more»

Gas drilling creates need for wastewater treatment facilities

15 weeks 2 days ago

The boom in drilling for natural gas across northern Pennsylvania has created a potential flood of business for wastewater treatment plants. The state Department of Environmental Protection has received permit applications associated with at least 12 proposed treatment plants that would accept water tainted in the well-preparation process. more»

'Frac Pit Art'

13 weeks 6 days ago

A Pennsylvania company, Process Plants Corporation of Cranberry Township, specializes in the on-site treatment of frac water. More information, including a PDF briefly explaining its methodology and positive attributes may be found online. Look here at its photo gallery of “Frac Pit Art”  >>> more»

Marcellus Shale Stakeholders Form Coalition

13 weeks 6 days ago

CANONSBURG, Pa., Nov. 30 - The newly named Marcellus Shale Coalition more»

Landowners Get Big Payments as Marcellus Shale Bidding Escalates

16 weeks 1 day ago

UNIVERSITY PARK --  As legislators, environmentalists and others strive to balance the many interests involved in developing the natural gas deposits contained in the Marcellus shale formation, a fierce bidding war has doubled the prices being offered for leases in Pennsylvania. more»

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