Where is marcellus shale

There has been limited drilling in East Ohio and Western Maryland as well. In Ohio, where operators typically drill the Marcellus from multi-well pads that share the Utica, just 43 Marcellus wells have been permitted and 28 have been drilled, according to state data at the time of this writing.

The formation is also considered highly prospective in Southern New York, but a ban on high-volume hydraulic fracturing in that state currently prevents any development there see Shale Daily , June 29, Range Resources Corp. Production in those areas features a dry and a wet gas window. The first Marcellus well in Northeast Pennsylvania was drilled several years later.

Similar results in West Virginia have operators considering a shift in their capital budgets. The Pennsylvania tests were conducted in the southwest part of the state — in Greene, Westmoreland and Washington counties. EQT said in late that it would both suspend its Upper Devonian Shale drilling and defer some Marcellus wells to build in a 10 well deep, dry Utica program in After the company completes a third Utica well in Southwest Pennsylvania in early , it would stop and continue developing the Marcellus, management has said.

The pace of production growth in the Marcellus might have been even faster to date, if it were not for a lack of midstream capacity in the area. Bottlenecks in the Marcellus will begin to ease in earnest in , but the rapid growth of production in the face of pipeline constraints has done a number on basis differentials in the region. Appalachia producers used to enjoy a premium to Gulf Coast pricing, but that has all but disappeared in recent months.

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