Indepth Exploration has put a lot of work and research on the deep formations under Pennsylvania and Ohio. The possibility of hitting hydrocarbons is excellent at the Adameck #1 Lease. From the Clinton/Medina to the Rose Run Sandstone each pay zone has the chance to make a good well. The Rose Run will be the target pay zone at around 7300 ft. but above that are eleven different pay zones we will be testing. After hitting a big Utica shale well just 20 miles away we…

US shale gas development – in particular liquid rich plays – are set to enjoy years of growth with production estimated to reach 30 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) by 2020, according to a US energy sector report from EIC Consult, the market research and consultancy arm of the Energy Industries Council (EIC). 



The report also predicts that, despite much publicised opposition, the comprehensive or prohibitive regulation of shale gas in the future remains…

TOWANDA - While Bradford County has experienced extensive gas drilling for a few years, what will it be like after the drilling has gone on for decades?

The three Bradford County commissioners and other local officials had a chance to get a sense of what could happen when they traveled last week to participate in a two-day conference in…

Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged support for the U.S. shale gas boom, but said government must focus on safe development of the energy resource.

In his State of the Union address, Obama called for government to develop a roadmap for responsible shale gas production and said his administration would move forward with "common-sense" new rules to make sure drillers protect the public.

"America will develop this resource without putting the health and safety of…

Almost all of the 20 homeowners in Belmar pay to run a water chlorination system to replace what was free well water from an Allegheny River aquifer. In the 1980s, an oil driller polluted the water, in part, they believe, by dumping waste brine into abandoned oil wells that could date to the 1800s, when Edwin L. Drake set off the boom by tapping his famous well in Titusville.

Today the latest gas-drilling rush in the Marcellus shale may bring an opportunity to plug many of those old…

By Dan Carrigan

LANCASTER, Pa. – Monday was Doug Kollmar’s first day on the job.

“I’ve been going through the process of getting oriented to the company and meeting all the people I work with,” Kollmar said.

The civil engineer is happy to be working. His former employer laid him off. So he took a job at Rettew and Associates in Lancaster.

“Everything has gone fine,” Kollmar said.

Kollmar is one of nearly 200 hires this year, 50 in the Lancaster office…

DIMOCK TWP. - Thousands of gallons of water in bottles, jugs and a tanker truck were delivered by natural gas drilling critics on Tuesday to township residents whose daily water deliveries by the driller blamed for contaminating their wells ended last week.

Supporters of the affected families, including actor Mark Ruffalo and "Gasland" filmmaker Josh Fox, as well as dozens of state and national environmental groups, gathered on Carter Road to praise the families, chastise the industry…

By Andrew Maykuth

Inquirer Staff Writer

HARRISBURG, Pa.

Pennsylvania voters support natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a new poll that also shows strong backing for an extraction tax on energy companies.

The Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday shows that 63 percent of Pennsylvanians say the economic benefits of drilling outweigh the environmental impacts, while 30 percent express the opposite view.

The poll appears to reflect the…

COLUMBUS — After several years of lobbying, Ohio’s oil and gas industry is poised to win permission to drill on state lands but environmentalists are sounding the alarm that it risks spills, fires and pollution in some of the state’s prettiest natural…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Several tests of western Pennsylvania river water prompted by fears of contamination from the state's rapidly growing natural gas drilling industry didn't turn up elevated or harmful levels of radioactivity or other pollutants not routinely monitored, a private water utility said Monday.

The Pennsylvania American Water Co. said its tests showed that its water quality complies with federal and states standards.

Water for one set of tests was drawn from…

UNIVERSITY PARK — Anthony Ingraffea, professor of engineering at Cornell University, took on what he described as natural gas industry myths — some quickly and others at length — during a talk Tuesday night at Penn State.

STEVE MOCARSKY smocarsky@timesleader.com

The head of a local group that supports more restrictions on natural gas drilling says a scientific report released on Monday substantiates group members’ concerns and should be evidence enough for Gov. Tom Corbett to impose a moratorium on drilling in Pennsylvania. …