2013-12-16 - natural gas drilling in pa (clarion county home schoolers)

Natural Gas Drilling in PA

Clarion County Home School

December 16, 2013

• Oil and Gas are fossil fuels and are

believed to have been formed

during the Carboniferous Period

hundreds of millions of years ago.

The Earth was covered by swamps

and algae filled oceans. As things

died they sank to the bottom and

accumulated in layers of peat that

became fossil fuels from years of

heat and pressure.

Where does Oil & Gas Come From?

http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter08.html

• When do you think

the first oil well was

drilled?

• Where was it drilled?

Early Oil & Gas Wells

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347 AD in China

• 800’ deep using bits

attached to bamboo

drilling rods

First Known Oil Wells

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1859 Titusville, PA

• Colonel Edwin Drake

– Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company

– 69.5’ Deep

– Produced ~ 20bbl per day (~840 gal)

First Commercial Oil Well

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Siting the well

Building a Location

Drilling the Well

Fracing the Well

Restoring the Well Site

Producing the Well

Drilling Video

Why do we need to perform inspections?

DEP's Office of Oil and Gas Management is responsible for the statewide oil and gas

conservation and environmental programs to facilitate the safe exploration,

development, recovery of Pennsylvania's oil and gas reservoirs in a manner that will

protect the commonwealth's natural resources and the environment. The office

develops policy and programs for the regulation of oil and gas development and

production pursuant to the Oil and Gas Act, the Coal and Gas Resource Coordination

Act, and the Oil and Gas Conservation Law; oversees the oil and gas permitting and

inspection programs; develops statewide regulation and standards; conducts training

programs for industry; and works with the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission

and the Technical Advisory Board.

Office of Oil and Gas Management

• Oil and Gas Conservation Law (1961)

• Chapter 79 – Oil and Gas Conservation (1971)

• Chapter 91 – Pollution Prevention (1971)

• Chapter 102 – Erosion Control (1972)

• Dam Safety and Encroachments Act (1978)

• Solid Waste Management Act (1980)

• Chapter 105 – Dam Safety and Waterway Management (1980)

• Coal and Gas Resource Coordination Act (1984)

• Clean Streams Law (1987)

• Chapter 78 – Oil and gas Wells (1987)

• Oil and Gas Act (2012, which superseded the OGA of 1984)

Regulations enforced

As a Water Quality Specialist in the Bureau of Oil

and Gas Management you are tasked to perform

routine inspections of oil and gas locations,

investigate complaints, provide notification of

violations to operators, take water samples and

enforce all applicable laws, regulations and acts.

What we do!

• Environmental Trainee:

– A Bachelor's Degree with major course work in an appropriate

physical or biological science or an closely related

environmental field.

• Water Quality Specialist:

– Successful completion of the training program for the

Environmental Trainee; or any equivalent combination of

experience and training which affords the applicant the required

knowledge and abilities.

Educational Requirements

Wells In Pennsylvania

Conventional Wells / Unconventional Wells As of 12/03/2013

• Total* – 241,271 » 203,034 (195,636 Conventional, 7,398 Unconventional)

• 2013* – 4,503 » 2,092 (938 Conventional, 1,154 Unconventional)

• 2011 – 4,419 » 2,373 (1,026 Conventional, 1,347 Unconventional)



• 2009 – 6,481 » 2,844 (2,027 Conventional, 817 Unconventional)





* As of 12/11/2013

Number of wells permitted » drilled

• The Oil and Gas Act of 2012 defines an Unconventional well as a bore hole

drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or to be used for the production

of natural gas from an unconventional formation.

• The Oil and Gas Act of 2012 defines an Unconventional formation as a

geological shale formation existing below the base of the Elk Sandstone or

its geologic equivalent stratigraphic interval where natural gas generally

cannot be produced at economic flow rates or in economic volumes

except by vertical or horizontal well bores stimulated by hydraulic fracture

treatments or by using multilateral well bores or other techniques to

expose more of the formation to the well bore.

What is an Unconventional Well?

Where are Unconventional Wells

Utica Shale Marcellus Shale

• Any Quesses?

How close are we to an oil or gas well right now?

CCHS Location: 41.14923889 N

79.40181361 W

Permit Number

Distance to Well

Operator Well Name Well Type Well Status Permit Date Spud Date Conservation

Well Unconventional

Well Latitude

(N) Longitude

(W)

031-01786 212 ZION BAPTIST CH ZION BAPTIST CH LOT 1 UNDETERMINED DEP Orphan List 12/21/1995 1/1/2000 N N 41.148837 -79.401252

031-01492 996 ALPHA WELLS INC TW PHILLIPS 1 GAS Active 4/5/1995 1/1/2000 N N 41.147736 -79.404842

031-20128 1508 PEOPLES TWP LLC WM C EISENHUTH FMLY HARRY HINDMA 2 DRY HOLE Plugged OG Well 4/9/1962 1/1/2000 N N 41.14801 -79.407057

031-21304 2522 DEITZ GAS & OIL INC WILSON 1 COMB. OIL&GAS Active 11/25/1983 1/1/2000 N N 41.150895 -79.392897

031-24856 2831 INTERSTATE GAS MKT INC W BALTZER 6 GAS Operator Reported Not Drilled 3/5/2008 Y N 41.1514 -79.411715

031-25393 2845 INTERSTATE GAS MKT INC W BALTZER 6 GAS Active 6/29/2010 1/1/2000 N N 41.151444 -79.41175

031-24731 2878 EXOTIC OIL & GAS LLC COLEMAN 2 GAS Active 8/8/2007 8/31/2007 N N 41.143742 -79.394295

031-24621 3001 WILLIAM MCINTIRE COAL OIL & GAS GILL 1 GAS Active 3/15/2007 6/7/2007 N N 41.141903 -79.396868

Wells within 3,000 feet

Chad Meyer Water Quality Specialist Spvr. DEP Office of Oil and Gas Mgt. Knox District Office 310 Best Ave, Knox PA 16232 814.797.1191 www.depweb.state.pa.us

http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/

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