Today Governor Corbett's Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission has released its recommendations for managing the state's burgeoning natural gas industry. The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) is encouraged by the fact that there was consensus among Commission members on a majority of measures surrounding environmental protection and public health and safety. Many of these recommendations ...
Amerisafe Consulting & Safety Services, a leading safety consulting company specializing in job site safety management in a vast array of industries, announces the addition of Marcellus Shale Safety to their safety consulting services. “Amerisafe Consulting & Safety Services has gained its reputation for professional safety consulting, safety management and safety training to ...
A new website aimed at organizing the avalanche of information on all things Marcellus Shale was announced today by the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC). “MarcellusFacts” (www.marcellusfacts.org), scours the internet continuously for news and information on Marcellus Shale and aggregates it into an easy-to-read format. Material is gathered ...
WHAT: The Pennsylvania Environmental Council and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation will hold a press conference to call on the Pennsylvania General Assembly to adopt tougher measures for regulating natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. WHEN: Thursday, November 10, 11:00 a.m. WHERE: ...
Pennsylvania Environmental Council: WHAT: The Pennsylvania Environmental Council and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation will hold a press conference to call on the Pennsylvania General Assembly to adopt tougher measures for regulating natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. WHEN: Thursday, November 10, ...
State Environmental Group to Call for Effective Regulation and Oversight on Drilling and Extraction of Natural Gas Pennsylvania Environmental Council: WHAT: The Pennsylvania Environmental Council will hold a press conference to release a report that calls for swift action on new regulations and greater oversight of drilling and extraction of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale ...
EarthSoft announced today that a second large Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction client will manage their environmental, geological, and geospatial data with EQuIS. Following an earlier announcement of a sale to Chesapeake Energy, EarthSoft announced a second major client last week, this time with a hosted EQuIS Online configuration. Both clients purchased EQuIS Enterprise for workflow ...
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) will supply three 1×1 M501JAC powertrains for a 1600 MW combined cycle power plant in the state of Virginia, USA. When completed in 2022, the Chickahominy Power Station will provide electricity in support of expected regional growth. Balico, LLC, Gemma Power Systems, and MHPS have partnered on the project. Virginia is experiencing substantial regional ...
ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design, engineering and management services company, announced today that Steven P. Lewandowski has joined the firm to lead the ARCADIS Marcellus Shale Gas program, adding to ARCADIS' in-house talent pool of experts to help address our clients' growing shale gas needs. As Program Manager, Mr. Lewandowski will draw on his more than 23 years ...
Kroff, Inc., one of the fastest-growing water treatment companies in the United States, will share its creative solutions and expertise in the areas of responsible water treatment as an exhibitor at the Shale Gas Insight Conference, held from September 7-8 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pa. The conference is hosted by the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC), an organization ...
Hosted jointly by the MSC, the Ohio Oil and Gas Association and the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, SHALE INSIGHT™ is a leading and widely-attended policy, innovation and energy outlook-focused forum. “The abundant and clean natural gas safely produced across Appalachia provides good-paying careers for hundreds of thousands of hard-working Americans, especially in our ...
Kroff, Inc., one of the fastest-growing water treatment companies in the United States, is pleased to announce that Dave Kern, area manager for Kroff Well Services, Inc. (KWS) will serve as a presenter during an upcoming Marcellus Shale event,"Mitigating Environmental Effects from Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling Operations." The event is sponsored by the Wesley Eckenfelder Foundation, American ...
The following is a statement from Paul M. King, president of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council: The enemy of the good is the perfect, and this legislation is far from perfect. But the people of Pennsylvania are better served by getting this bill now than to wait another year or more for something stronger. The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) has worked hard ...
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has released a technical report on the results of a limited field study that monitored a hydraulic fracturing operation in Greene County, PA for upward fracture growth out of the target zone and upward gas and fluid migration. Results indicate that under the conditions of this study, for this specific location, ...
Aqua America, Inc. (NYSE: WTR) Chairman and CEO Nicholas DeBenedictis told a group of Drexel University students that the natural gas industry will become the biggest economic driver in Pennsylvania since the heydays of coal and steel, and that along with it will come a bounty of energy careers and jobs. His remarks were made today at the 2012 Energy/Utility Forum sponsored by the Pennsylvania ...
Recent pipeline expansions have helped the Marcellus shale play reach a production rate above 7 billion cubic feet (BCF)/day; surpassing the Haynesville shale to become the largest gas producing play in the U.S., according to a new IHS (NYSE: IHS) report. With this rise in production, the growth of the Marcellus has had a significant, positive impact on early movers such as Range Resources, who ...
An energy company is dusting off an old, unused state law that can force property owners to accept oil and gas drilling under their land, pitting neighbor against neighbor in a Pennsylvania community and raising the possibility that lawmakers will have to take sides. Houston-based Hilcorp seeks to use a 1961 Pennsylvania law to drill under the property of four holdout landowners in New Bedford, ...
Kroff, Inc., one of the fastest-growing water treatment companies in the United States, is pleased to announce that David Grottenthaler, general manager of Kroff Well Services (KWS), Inc., will serve as the keynote speaker at the next Partners Through People CEO Alliance group meeting, being held on May 18th at the LeMont Restaurant in Pittsburgh. Grottenthaler's presentation will focus on the ...
Canonsburg, PA, March 30, 2011 – Aquatech, a world leader in the development of wastewater recycling, reuse and treatment, announced today it has bolstered its Shale Gas Services team with the addition experienced environmental professionals - Larry Pepper and Robert Bealko. “Larry and Robert will be instrumental in helping our growing Shale Gas Services team leverage resources ...
A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy tells The Associated Press. After a year of monitoring, the researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids stayed thousands of feet below the shallower areas ...