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Penn State Cooperative Extension Resources

• Penn State offers Web series on gas exploration issues
• Penn State Cooperative Extension Natural Gas Web site
• Cooperative Extension Guide for Landowners
• Testing Your Drinking Water
• Methane Gas and Its Removal from Wells in Pennsylvania

Geologic Background

• Forecast of the Potential Impact of Increased Royalty Income on the Pennsylvania Economy, 2008–2011 [June 19, Economic & Workforce Brief]
• Marcellus Shale Play’s
  Vast Resource Potential
  Creating Stir In Appalachia [May 8, The American Oil & Gas Reporter]
• Geologic Map of Pennsylvania [Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources]
• Marcellus Shale Distribution Map [April 8, 2008, The New York Times]
• Influence of Basin Dynamics on Upper Devonian Black Shale Deposition, Western New York State and Northwest Pennsylvania [April 22, 2007, searchanddiscovery.net]
• Outcrops of the Middle Devonian Marcellus Formation [Photos from Dr. Terry Engelder's Website, Penn State Department of Geosciences]
• History of Shale Deposition
  [Presentation from the Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia, Inc.]
• Appalachian Basin Black Shale Exploitation: Past, Present, and Future
  [Presentation from IOGA of PA Annual Meeting, May 2007.]

Other Links

• PA Department of Environmental Protection:
  —Marcellus Shale Web site
  —Marcellus Web site
  —Marcellus Shale Committee: The Economic Impact of the Oil and Gas Industry in PA [PDF]
• GIS map of drilling rig locations
  [updated weekly!]
• YouTube videos:
  —See Wyoming's nautral gas fields
  —Chemicals in Hydraulic Fracturing
• Natural Gas Exploration and Leasing
  
• The Agriculture Law Resource & Reference Center [Penn State/The Dickinson School of Law]
• Bureau of Oil and Gas Management
  [Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection]
• Natural Gas Lease Forum For Landowners
• National Pipeline Mapping System

Related News

• Driller wants four million gallons [Article from Centre Daily Times]
• Digging For Gas In New York [NPR Day to Day story from member station WNYC]
• Urban Gas Drilling Causes Backlash In Boomtown [Story from NPR about the Barnett Shale in Texas]
• Learning the Value of Your Land
  [Marketplace story from American Public Media]