Texas, New Mexico, Okla. Travel to PA Marcellus to Get Educated

This is quite a turnabout. George Mitchell pioneered how to combine horizontal drilling with hydraulic fracturing in the Texas Barnett… Continue reading The post Texas, New Mexico, Okla. Travel to PA Marcellus to Get Educated first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Women Excel in Marcellus Shale Jobs in NEPA

Women make up a small but growing part of the natural gas industry in the northeastern Pennsylvania Marcellus. Estimates are… Continue reading The post Women Excel in Marcellus Shale Jobs in NEPA first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Scranton Law Firm Says New Boom in Shale Drilling Coming in NEPA

We’re always on the lookout for indicators and trends that tell us whether or not there will be more or… Continue reading The post Scranton Law Firm Says New Boom in Shale Drilling Coming in NEPA first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Alta Resources Shopping 547K Marcellus Acres, Asking $3B

We don’t write much about Alta Resources, a shale drilling company co-founded by the inventor of shale fracking, George Mitchell. But that doesn’t mean Alta doesn’t drill in the Marcellus. The company owns some 547,000 gross (239,000 net) acres producing natural gas from approximately 900 wells in the Marcellus Shale across Bradford, Wyoming, Sullivan, Lycoming,

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Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Dec 14-18

Last week Pennsylvania issued 25 new shale well drilling permits in both northeast and southwest PA, although most of the permits for SWPA. Ohio issued 4 new shale well permits, all of them to the same company (Encino Energy) and the same well pad (in Harrison County). West Virginia issued 6 new shale well permits,

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Alta Resources Uses Software to Make Marcellus Wells Produce More

We don’t often see news about a Marcellus producer called Alta Resources. Alta was one of the first drillers we wrote about just after launching the MDN website back in 2009 (see Texas Billionaire George Mitchell is Betting on the Marcellus in PA). George Mitchell, widely recognized as the father of shale energy, was a

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Lots of Marcellus Jobs in Northeast PA – More Workers Needed

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. There are plenty of jobs in the shale industry in northeastern Pennsylvania–IF you have certain skills. What kind of skills? The kind that are taught at programs like at the Lackawanna College

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Another $3M in PA Grants to Fund 3 Local Marcellus Pipelines

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Another $3 million in taxpayer-funded grants have just been handed out to three different local pipeline projects under Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Investment Program, or PIPE. Two of the projects are in northeastern PA,

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