They Must of Hit GOLD,,, I Mean GAS

Where I grew up, there was a big flare that burned sour gas in the nearby oilfield. The flame was at least 50 feet high and burned for decades until they started processing the gas in the early '80's. I remember seeing the snow on the ground near the flare steaming/melting at night from the heat. You could feel the heat and hear the roar from the highway which was probably a thousand yards away, and it lit up the whole area like it was daytime.

Believe it or not, there are plenty of new wells and no drama...but where there is a little drama the resident and media make the best of it.

My father has a newly producing Utica Shale gas well 200 yards from his home...and it's production is being metered 24/7 tied into the pipeline system.

Central Western PA & parts of E. Ohio are being drilled deeper beyond the Marcellus Shales further down into the Utica Shales, it's a bigger play and shallower here than elsewhere.
Pennsylvania expects to have 180,000 to 200,000 new wells in the state, Ohio will get their share.
Nearby where I live it is a Gold Rush. Some have likened it to Oklahoma's oil in the past.

Do they have to use the Fracking process for the Utica Shales? Seems odd that Cheney would exempt the fracking process from the Clean Waters Act, Allow them to not fully disclose what chemicals are being used, I don't even know if the trucks have to have a placard for what they haul. Then again Haliburton developed the process.

Yes, same fracking, it is just at a greater depth underground.

Here's another story for the proponents to prove false.
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/01/06/pennsylvania-f ... KbVU.email

lsayre wrote:

Berlin wrote:"Fracking" hasn't done a damn thing, the propaganda has gotten so bad even the people in the industry are starting to believe it. There's been people in these regions with gas in their well water for years, nothing new. It's either from improperly cased older gas wells, coal bed methane that someone drilled a water well through or low producing shallow gas-containing minerals within the depths reached by water wells.

In Missouri and Illinois, near the New Madrid fault line they monitored a vast increase in the frequency and magnitude of earthquake tremors after local fracking began. They issued a cease and desist notice and the frequency and magnitude of the tremors returned to normal. The moral of the story might be that fracking (fracturing the ground a few miles below) along major fault lines is not a wise thing to do.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45903873/ns/technology_ ... wiPztVQt0Q

This is rally fracked up ! We're on the edge of the Utica here. Lotsa talk about 5,000 bucks an acre....Ohio law says you can't stop them from going under your property. They'll just put the money in an escrow account for if and when you sign up. Now that I don't like at all.....Aww frack it all......

Hambden Bob wrote:This is rally fracked up ! We're on the edge of the Utica here. Lotsa talk about 5,000 bucks an acre....Ohio law says you can't stop them from going under your property. They'll just put the money in an escrow account for if and when you sign up. Now that I don't like at all.....Aww frack it all......

Dont know for sure but I hear if you don't sign up within 3 years the STATE will get your money !!

Only $5000 an acre?

I heard through the grapevine (no source) that the gas companies are expecting to make 7 million dollars/acre profit.

Just lovely......lovely indeed......