Technology and Unconventional Shale

A short op-ed in PennEnergy for newbies. For regular readers, nothing new.

Two data-points:

• The large quantities of water injected and produced pose a problem primarily in non-water rich states. The northeast, where the Marcellus Shale is located, is water rich. Supply is not as much of a concern as safe disposal.
• The API reports that in 2004, the United States EPA stated, “the injection of hydraulic fracturing fluids into coal-bed methane wells pose little or no threat to underground drinking water.”