The state sits on one of the nation's richest shale deposits, the Marcellus, and is the last state in the nation with
a major shale play to authorize fracking.
Since 2008, he's called practically
every major shale play before the mainstream press got wind of them — including the now - famous Bakken oil formation and the companies that have raked in billions in profits for their shareholders.
It also revealed how the contents of this waste differ dramatically across three
major shale plays: Texas» Eagle Ford, New Mexico's Barnett and Pennsylvania's Marcellus.
Not exact matches
And from what is now known about all the
major US
plays (excepting the Moneterey
shale, where because of folding and faulting no one has yet figured out how to successfully use the technology), EIA has simply figured out how many more wells could be drilled before all the known pay is fully drilled.
Four
major potential sources of carbon pollution have been identified, the Arctic Ocean, the Green River Formation, the Powder River Basin, and the Monterey, San Juan Basin and Marcellus
shale plays.