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Here's a look at 10 years of drilling in the pittsburgh region
Although it was drilled in 2003, the arguably more important date is October 2004, when Range, on the suggestion of company geologist Bill Zagorski, hydraulically fractured the well, setting in motion all that has followed.
The big players are here, he says. And it's a true mixed-use development. You can work and live and play all in the same place. And the buildings themselves are unique. No cookie-cutter projects. And if you want to get to downtown Pittsburgh, there's one stop light between there and Boulevard of the Allies.
Although Americans already had been extracting natural gas from the earth, the Haymaker well was different — its gas was piped into Pittsburgh commercially, marking the first time a corporation organized specifically to produce and transport natural gas shipped it into a metropolitan area.
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All told, Allegheny County will receive $7.7M via bonus payments and parks improvement fund.
Having been slapped with a $4.15 million civil fine on account of fluid leaks and discharges, Range Resources Corp. said it will now overbuild new water impoundments and more closely monitor them.
It's the largest fine levied against an oil and gas producer during Pennsylvania's shale gas boom.
The department said monitoring-well data and further water sampling show Range Resources' Wortsell impoundment isn't holding water.
Zoup! isn’t alone in finding success in Washington County, which is seeing an influx of service-oriented retailers arriving to meet the needs of the fast-growing energy segment. Whether it’s restaurants, dry cleaners or dentist offices, they are arriving to tap into this emerging opportunity.
If you follow the line chart plotting that growth back to the beginning, you’ll find it leads to Washington County, where Range Resources Corp. drilled what’s considered to be the first gas well tapping the Marcellus Shale.
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Columbia Pipeline says it has an unparalleled footprint in the Marcellus and Utica production areas and will add a new pipeline to transport natural gas to the Gulf Coast.
The $1.75 billion investment will fund pipeline and compression systems to send natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale plays to the Gulf Coast and other regions.