Texas extracts more shale gas than any other U.S. state. In 2021, shale gas production output in Texas reached 8.3 trillion cubic feet. Pennsylvania followed as the second most productive state. Pennsylvania is located within the Appalachia basin, which is the greatest natural gas producing U.S. basin. In total, the United States extracted around 27.99 trillion cubic feet of shale gas in 2021. Shale gas refers to natural gas that is trapped within shale formations of low permeability.

History of shale gas production

Shale gas resources can contain large accumulations of natural gas and/or oil. Production of natural gas from Texas’ Barnett Shale began around a decade ago and has acted as a model for new natural gas extraction technologies in other parts of the country. It was one of the first cases of large-scale natural gas production from shale resources under the Mitchell Energy and Development Corporation. More than 30 states are sitting on top of shale formations.

The production of shale gas has increased dramatically under the development of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling. U.S. shale gas and tight oil production has increased from 1.77 trillion cubic feet in 2000 to approximately 25 trillion cubic feet in 2021. It is predicted that output will reach nearly 34 trillion cubic feet by 2050. As of 2020, the U.S. natural gas reserves amounted to 12.6 trillion cubic meters.

Panama PA: Electricity Production From Natural Gas Sources: % of Total data was reported at 0.000 % in 2015. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 % for 2014. Panama PA: Electricity Production From Natural Gas Sources: % of Total data is updated yearly, averaging 0.000 % from Dec 1971 (Median) to 2015, with 45 observations. Panama PA: Electricity Production From Natural Gas Sources: % of Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Panama – Table PA.World Bank.WDI: Energy Production and Consumption. Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Gas refers to natural gas but excludes natural gas liquids.; ; IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA 2014 (http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp), subject to https://www.iea.org/t&c/termsandconditions/; Weighted average; Electricity production shares may not sum to 100 percent because other sources of generated electricity (such as geothermal, solar, and wind) are not shown. Restricted use: Please contact the International Energy Agency for third-party use of these data.

A cells polygon feature class was created by the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) to illustrate the degree of exploration, type of production, and distribution of production in the State of Pennsylvania. Each cell represents a quarter-mile square of the land surface, and the cells are coded to represent whether the wells included within the cell are predominantly oil-producing, gas-producing, both oil and gas-producing, or the type of production of the wells located within the cell is unknown or dry. Data were retrieved from the Pennsylvania Internet Record Imaging System (PA*IRIS). Cells were developed as a graphic solution to overcome the problem of displaying proprietary well data. No proprietary data are displayed or included in the cell maps. The data are current as of 2006.

The data comprise the initial release of landscape disturbance polygons and lines (sites, pipelines and roads) related to natural gas and oil drilling developed prior to the end of 2013 in the 10-county region along the New York - Pennsylvania border. The study area includes the New York Counties of Allegany, Broome, Chemung, Steuben and Tioga, and the Pennsylvania counties of Bradford, McKean, Potter, Susquehanna, and Tioga. The data were collected using high-resolution aerial imagery from the National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) for each available year between 2004 - 2013 within a geographic information system (GIS), along with additional geospatial data on oil and gas drilling permits and locations, administrative boundaries, ecoregions, and the footprint of the Marcellus Shale play. Data collection was a manual process of visually examining the NAIP imagery composite for each county for each year and using 2004 imagery as a baseline to identify and digitize landscape changes in the land cover resulting from the development of gas extraction infrastructure that occurred after 2004. Changes that correlated with natural gas extraction permits, appeared to be natural gas extraction related, or were in proximity to other gas extraction infrastructure were selected and digitized to the maximum extent of landscape disturbance. Disturbance that appeared in the 2004 imagery was collected; however, some of the collected disturbance for 2004 may predate the NAIP imagery collection date. The focus of the data collection was on features attributable to the construction, use, and maintenance of gas extraction drill sites, processing plants, and compressor stations, as well as the centerlines for new roads accessing such sites, plants, and stations, and the centerlines for new pipelines used to transport the extracted gas. Some of the roads and or pipelines may predate the data collection, however they appeared to be either expanded or worked on in relation to oil or gas activities in the study area. These data were collected within shapefiles by county, using ArcGIS 10.5. One shapefile was generated for sites (polygons), one was generated for roads (lines), and one was generated for pipelines (lines). Another team member reviewed the data for concurrence and consistency. These data identify disturbance related to natural gas and oil drilling, but do not identify the well types associated with that disturbance. For well type, see the New York Department of Environmental Conservation downloadable well data webpage (https://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/1603.html) or the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Oil and Gas Permit Database available at their web page (http://data-padep-1.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets?q=Oil%20&%20Gas).

The Natural Gas Distribution industry in Pennsylvania is expected to grow an annualized x.x% to $x.x billion over the five years to 2025, while the national industry will likely grow at x.x% during the same period. Industry establishments decreased an annualized -x.x% to xxx locations. Industry employment has decreased an annualized -x% to x,xxx workers, while industry wages have decreased an annualized -x% to $x.x million.

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The PADEP provides eight primary reports on natural gas well activity to the public: Permits Issued, SPUD Data, Production Reports, Waste Reports, Compliance Reports, Public Utility Commission (PUC) Act 13 Unconventional Wells Spud Report, PADEP Oil & Gas Locations - Conventional Unconventional (hosted by PASDA), and Well Formations Report.Permits Issued – Proposed natural gas well drilling sites submitted to and approved by the PADEP.Spud Data – List of new natural gas wells drilled; the SPUD date refers to the date reported to DEP by the Operator that the drilling began (or will begin) at a well site.Production Reports – Information on natural gas production submitted by well operators. Conventional wells are submitted yearly while unconventional wells are submitted every six months (January to June and July to December) through the end of 2014. Starting in 2015, production is reported monthly. Waste Reports – Waste information from operators generated by drilling the well. Conventional wells are submitted yearly while unconventional wells are submitted every six months (January to June and July to December) through the end of 2014. Starting in 2015, Waste is reported monthly.Compliance Reports – Inspections of wells, including information on violations and fines.PUC Act 13 Unconventional Wells Spud Report – List of wells that the PADEP has identified that satisfy the requirements set by the Pennsylvania Act 13 Legislation.Oil & Gas Locations - Conventional Unconventional – Shapefile of the Oil & Gas Wells in Pennsylvania that the PADEP has locational information for broken into two formation types of conventional and unconventional wells.Well Formations Report – Displays geological formation information by listing the target, oldest and producing formations for all oil and gas wellsEach data source provides a well permit or API number for all wells, conventional and unconventional. By extracting well permits numbers from all eight data sources for any wells flagged by the PADEP as an unconventional well, a master table of permit numbers is generated of unconventional wells. By analyzing each data source, summary data is compiled to determine which wells are in the permitting process, are drilled, or are producing natural gas. Additional information includes how much gas is being produced, the number of violations, and which wells may be identified inconsistently as an unconventional well, as well as other attributes. The source data can be found at the following websites:Permit, SPUD, Compliance, Waste, Production, and Well Formation Reports: http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/oil_and_gas_reports/20297Public Utility Commission (PUC) Act 13 Unconventional Wells Spud Report: http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/act_13/20789PADEP Oil & Gas Locations - Conventional Unconventional: ftp://ftp.pasda.psu.edu/pub/pasda/dep/historic/OilGasLocations_ConventionalUnconventional/For more information on the project see https://maps.carnegiemnh.org/index.php/projects/unconventional-wells/

This statistic shows the revenue of the industry “drilling oil and gas wells“ in Pennsylvania from 2012 to 2017, with a forecast to 2024. It is projected that the revenue of drilling oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania will amount to approximately ***** million U.S. Dollars by 2024.

Fossil fuels were the largest source of electricity generation in Pennsylvania in 2021, with natural gas alone accounting for more than half of the power generated in the U.S. state. Nuclear power ranked second, representing about ********* of Pennsylvania's electricity production that year.

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The following data set contains all the Oil & Gas Wells in Pennsylvania that the Dept of Environmental Protection has locational information on. The wells are broken into two formation types of conventional and unconventional wells. A conventional well is a bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or to be used for the production of oil or natural gas from only conventional formation(s). A conventional formation is any formation that does not meet the statutory definition of an unconventional formation. An unconventional gas well is a bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or to be used for the production of natural gas from an unconventional formation. Unconventional formation is a geological shale formation existing below the base of the Elk Sandstone or its geologic equivalent stratigraphic interval where natural gas generally cannot be produced at economic flow rates or in economic volumes except by vertical or horizontal well bores stimulated by hydraulic fracture treatments or by using multilateral well bores or other techniques to expose more of the formation to the well bore.

The following data set contains all the Oil & Gas Wells in Pennsylvania that the Dept of Enviromental Protection has locational information on. The wells are broken into two formation types of conventional and unconventional wells. A conventional well is a bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or to be used for the production of oil or natureal gas from only conventional formation(s). A conventional formation is any formation that does not meet the statutory definition of an unconventional formation. An unconventional gas well is a bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or to be used for the production of natural gas from an unconventional formation. Unconventional formation is a geological shale formation existing below the base of the Elk Sandstone or its geologic equivalent stratigraphic interval where natural gas generally cannot be produced at economic flow rates or in economic volumes except by vertical or horizontal well bores stimulated by hydraulic fracture treatments or by using multilateral well bores or other techniques to expose more of the formation to the well bore. The following fields are displayed in the data set: PERMIT_NUM is the Permit Number associated with the well, WELL_NAME is the name given to the well by DEP or the Operator, OPERATOR the name of the current operator for the well, OPER_NUM is the Operator Number associated with the current operator, WELL_TYPE describes the type of well, WELL_TYPECD is the code associated with the Well type, WELL_STAT is the current status of the well, WELL_STATCD is the code associated with the current well status, PERM_DATE is the date associated with the permit number, SPUD_DATE is the drilling commencement date, or proposed drilling commencement date as reported by the operator, CONSV_IND indicates whether thie wellbore penetrates the Onondaga horizon as defined in the PA Oil & Gas Conservation Law, COUNTY is the county the well is permitted in, COUNTY_ID is the code associated to the county, MCD is the municipality that the well is in, MCD_TYPE is the type of municipality that the well is in, MCD_CD is the code associated to the municipality name, LATITUDE is the latitude of the well bore hole, LONGITUDE is the longitude of the well bore hole, PRMRY_FID is a system generated id associated with the primary facility record for this well in the DEP eFACTS database, UNCV_IND indicates whether this is a conventional or unconventional well, SURFACE_ELEV is the ground elevation at the well head location, WELL_CONFIG_CD indicates the well configuration, COAL_IND indicates if the well is in a coal or non coal region, PLUG_C_DATE is the well plug completion date, WELL_PAD is the name of the well pad on which the well is located.

Panama PA: Electricity Production From Oil: Gas And Coal Sources: % of Total data was reported at 44.202 % in 2014. This records an increase from the previous number of 42.074 % for 2013. Panama PA: Electricity Production From Oil: Gas And Coal Sources: % of Total data is updated yearly, averaging 38.876 % from Dec 1971 (Median) to 2014, with 44 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 91.559 % in 1972 and a record low of 11.411 % in 1988. Panama PA: Electricity Production From Oil: Gas And Coal Sources: % of Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Panama – Table PA.World Bank.WDI: Energy Production and Consumption. Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Oil refers to crude oil and petroleum products. Gas refers to natural gas but excludes natural gas liquids. Coal refers to all coal and brown coal, both primary (including hard coal and lignite-brown coal) and derived fuels (including patent fuel, coke oven coke, gas coke, coke oven gas, and blast furnace gas). Peat is also included in this category.; ; IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA 2014 (http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp), subject to https://www.iea.org/t&c/termsandconditions/; Weighted average; Restricted use: Please contact the International Energy Agency for third-party use of these data.

An Oil and Gas Location is a DEP primary facility type related to the Oil & Gas Program. The sub-facility types related to Oil and Gas that are included in this layer are:_ Land Application -- An area where drilling cuttings or waste are disposed by land applicaiton Well-- A well associated with oil and/or gas production Pit -- An approved pit that is used for storage of oil and gas well fluids . Some sub facility types are not included in this layer due to security policies.

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Panama PA: Natural Gas Rents: % of GDP data was reported at 0.000 % in 2016. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 % for 2015. Panama PA: Natural Gas Rents: % of GDP data is updated yearly, averaging 0.000 % from Dec 1971 (Median) to 2016, with 46 observations. Panama PA: Natural Gas Rents: % of GDP data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Panama – Table PA.World Bank: Land Use, Protected Areas and National Wealth. Natural gas rents are the difference between the value of natural gas production at regional prices and total costs of production.; ; World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods described in 'The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018: Building a Sustainable Future' (Lange et al 2018).; Weighted Average;

Graph and download economic data for Gross Domestic Product: Oil and Gas Extraction (211) in Pennsylvania (PAOILGASNGSP) from 1997 to 2023 about extraction, mining, oil, PA, gas, private industries, GSP, private, industry, GDP, and USA.

Cell maps for each oil and gas assessment unit were created by the USGS as a method for illustrating the degree of exploration, type of production, and distribution of production in an assessment unit or province. Each cell represents a quarter-mile square of the land surface, and the cells are coded to represent whether the wells included within the cell are predominantly oil-producing, gas-producing, both oil and gas-producing, dry, or the type of production of the wells located within the cell is unknown. The well information was initially retrieved from the IHS Energy Group, PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data on CD-ROM, which is a proprietary, commercial database containing information for most oil and gas wells in the U.S. Cells were developed as a graphic solution to overcome the problem of displaying proprietary PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data. No proprietary data are displayed or included in the cell maps. The data from PI/Dwights PLUS Well Data were current as of October 2001 when the cell maps were created in 2002.

From the site: "An Oil and Gas Location is a DEP primary facility type related to the Oil & Gas Program. The sub-facility types related to Oil and Gas that are included in this layer are:_ Land Application -- An area where drilling cuttings or waste are disposed by land application Well-- A well associated with oil and/or gas production Pit -- An approved pit that is used for storage of oil and gas well fluids . Some sub facility types are not included in this layer due to security policies."

Oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) activities generate emissions from diesel engines, compressor stations, condensate tanks, leaks and venting of natural gas, construction of well pads, and well access roads that can negatively impact air quality on both local and regional scales. A mobile, autonomous air quality monitoring laboratory was constructed to collect measurements of ambient concentrations of pollutants associated with oil and natural gas E&P activities. This air-monitoring laboratory was deployed to the Allegheny National Forest (ANF) in northwestern Pennsylvania for a campaign that resulted in the collection of approximately 7 months of data split between three monitoring locations between July 2010 and June 2011. The three monitoring locations were the Kane Experimental Forest (KEF) area in Elk County, which is downwind of the Sackett oilfield; the Bradford Ranger Station (BRS) in McKean County, which is downwind of a large area of historic oil and gas productivity; and the U.S. Forest Service Hearts Content campground (HC) in Warren County, which is in an area relatively unimpacted by oil and gas development and which therefore yielded background pollutant concentrations in the ANF. Concentrations of criteria pollutants ozone and NO2 did not vary significantly from site to site; averages were below National Ambient Air Quality Standards. Concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) associated with oil and natural gas (ethane, propane, butane, pentane) were highly correlated. Applying the conditional probability function (CPF) to the ethane data yielded most probable directions of the sources that were coincident with known location of existing wells and activity. Differences between the two impacted and one background site were difficult to discern, suggesting the that the monitoring laboratory was a great enough distance downwind of active areas to allow for sufficient dispersion with background air such that the localized plumes were not detected. ImplicationsMonitoring of pollutants associated with oil and natural gas exploration and production activity at three sites within the Allegheny National Forest (ANF) showed only slight site-to-site differences even with one site far removed from these activities. However, the impact was evident not in detection of localized plumes but in regional elevated ethane concentrations, as ethane can be considered a tracer species for oil and natural gas activity. The data presented serve as baseline conditions for evaluation of impacts from future development of Marcellus or Utica shale gas reserves.