McClendon says the Haynesville shale formation in Louisiana and Texas holds serious potential.
The enormous pressure of the shale formation sends oil and gas gushing out the well when it is first fracked.
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But these days, he's house hunting in San Antonio, the biggest city near the booming Eagle Ford Shale formation, a prime location for hydraulic fracturing.
The dramatic migration pattern can be chalked up to the rapid development of an oil- and gas-rich shale formation in the western part of the state.
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In Illinois, the industry is eyeing the New Albany Shale formation, and could begin drilling as soon as this summer if the legislature passes regulations introduced in February.
However, we know that this shale formation spreads all the way from North Wales to near the Scottish border in Cumbria and well over into Yorkshire as well.
Of course, we are now seeing speculation that the Cline Shale formation in West Texas may well contain more oil than the Eagle Ford, so that distinction could be short-lived.
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The state has had a moratorium on the process since 2008 while other states in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation have seen local economies boom as drilling rigs have sprouted up.
Others are moving to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where the Barnett Shale formation, which produces in 24 counties, accounted for 31% of well-gas production in Texas last year, according to the railroad commission.
The Marcellus Shale formation alone, spreading from New York to West Virginia, is believed to contain at least 700 trillion cubic feet of economically accessible gas, a 30-year supply at U.S. rates of consumption.
The state has had a moratorium on the process since 2008 while other states in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation, such as Pennsylvania, have seen local economies boom as drilling rigs have sprouted up.
The study will look at detailed health histories of hundreds of thousands of patients who live near wells and other facilities that are producing natural gas from the same Marcellus Shale formation that New York would tap.
The Geisinger study will look at detailed health histories of hundreds of thousands of patients who live near wells and other facilities that are producing natural gas from the same Marcellus Shale formation that New York would tap.
They are encouraging drillers to use tainted coal mine water to hydraulically fracture gas wells in the Marcellus Shale formation, with the twin goals of diverting pollution from streams and rivers that now run orange with mine drainage and reducing the drillers' reliance on fresh sources of water.
This is too bad, since a state whose unemployment rate still lags the national average could really use the thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic impact that would be generated by development of the portion of the prolific Marcellus Shale formation that underlies much of the southwestern quarter of the state.
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Rather, as a consequence of injecting water and sand into the shale formation to crack the rocks so gas and oil will flow, massive amounts of waste water comes back to the surface with significant amounts of contaminants as a result of leaching out salt, heavy metals and trace amounts of radioactive materials from the rock formation itself.
At issue now is the Monterey Shale, a formation holding more shale oil than anywhere else in the country.
The black shale Marcellus Formation stretches from much of the southern half of New York State through much of Pennsylvania and into West Virginia and Eastern Ohio.
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Ohio also has the Utica Shale, another formation rich in oil and gas.
The acquisition will allow Chevron to gain a foothold in the Marcellus shale, a giant rock formation underlying Pennsylvania, New York and other states that has become one of the most prolific sources of natural gas in the U.S. But how much equity value does this really add to the company?
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High oil prices and improved horizontal drilling techniques made oil production in tight oil plays like the Eagle Ford Shale in Texas and the Bakken Formation in North Dakota economical for the first time.
The Marcellus Shale is an underground gas-rich formation extending across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, Ohio and Maryland.
Delaware Basin, where it primarily targets the Bone Spring formation (including the Avalon shale and the Bone Spring sands) and the Wolfcamp shale, and Texas Permian.
The potential for an energy industry based on the region's prime location atop the gas-rich rock formation known as the Marcellus Shale also has drawn enthusiasm and stirred debate.
The town is in the southern part of the state near the Pennsylvania border, where the gas-rich rock formation known as the Marcellus Shale is most likely to see the first drilling activity if the ban is lifted.
Another find, the Green River formation in Wyoming, could contain an astounding 1.4 trillion barrels of oil shale.
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Chevron, for example, has invested heavily in shale production in the Marcellus field in Pennsylvania, while ConocoPhillips has been working hard at the Eagle Ford formation in Texas.
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