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PENNSYLVANIA MARCELLUS SHALE DRILLING
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Great Lakes Energy Partners, LLC initially
signed
many of the Washington County gas leases that
are now owned by
RANGE RESOURCESWell
Name: HOSKINS, JUNE
Unit 1H - Permit 125-23690
Unit 2H - Permit 125-23032
Unit 3H - Permit 125-23735
Unit 4H - Permit 125-23691
Unit 6H - Permit 125-23692
NOTE: A well name and permit number
are required
to do a records review at the DEP in Pittsburgh
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PATTERSON-UTI DRILLING COMPANY, LLC sign
Rig 316
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PATTERSON-UTI
DRILL RIG
Patterson-UTI Drilling Company
contracts drilling services to independent and major natural gas and
oil operators in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Texas, Alabama,
Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New
Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, and
western Canada
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PATTERSON-UTI RIG
#316
A "triple rig" is able to put
three joined 30-foot lengths of
drilling pipe (a 90-foot stand) into a gas well at once.
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1,000 HORSEPOWER
These 1,000
horsepower drilling rigs have typically
been drilling down over 1-1/4 miles (6,700 feet) and
then horizontally over 1/2 mile (3,000 feet) to reach
Marcellus Shale gas
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MOBILE HOMES AND OFFICES
These and other
trailers will hold personnel and supplies for
24 hour a day, 7 days a week
drilling operations
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PREPARING FOR THE FRAC
ATTACK
Green fluid tanks from BAKER have
begun
lining up at the drilling site
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PUMPS BEGIN TO
ARRIVE ON SITE
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PIPING WATER FROM AFAR
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DUAL PIPES EXTEND DOWN OVER
THE HILL
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PIPES CROSSING CHARTIERS
RUN
Hopefully these pipes won't be
carrying any recycled wastewater which has caused fish kills in
Washington County due to pipe leaks. Installing backflow preventers
would help ensure safer results.
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ROW OF BAKER TANKS IN A
FIELD BELOW
The silver water pipes lead to these
tanks in a field along Rt 519, with one pipe extending further under
Rt 519
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Condensate tank battery
March 2010
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