Current estimates put the Marcellus Shale on track to become the second largest natural gas field in the world. And a Penn State University study predicts that Marcellus natural gas production could practically double by 2020, helping to make Pennsylvania the energy capitol of America.Some stats about the natural gas industry activity and what it…
What is a natural gas vehicle?A natural gas vehicle (NGV) is designed to be environmentally and economically friendly. These vehicles can be powered by two forms of natural gas: compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquid natural gas (LNG). Vehicles can either be dedicated to run on natural gas only, or…
When the fish and other organisms would die, they sank to bottom where algae and clay particles already sat. After hundreds of millions of years of this accumulation, the mixture of particles and organic matter turned into solid rock formations that entrapped natural gas in the formation we know today…
We are in an age of natural gas that has never been witnessed before.As most articles nowadays try to do, this Patriot-News op-ed begins by putting the production of Pennsylvania into perspective: Production topped 895 billion cubic feet of natural gas for the first six months of 2012, pushing the total production over…
Much of the controversy surrounding natural gas development is the grossly misunderstood belief that hydraulic fracturing is exempt from all federal regulations, especially the Safe Drinking Water Act, because of the “Halliburton Loophole.” This, like much of the anti-natural gas gobbledygook, is completely false.Hydraulic fracturing is 60+ year-old stimulation technique…
Post contributed by Bill desRosiers – Coordinator, External AffairsEven the national media cannot deny it all of the time; natural gas development is driving Pennsylvania’s economy like no other industry while lower the United States’ carbon footprint.The last few days has brought surprisingly fair and objective reporting about Marcellus Shale…