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MARCELLUS AIR III : Aerial photographs of Marcellus Shale gas drilling, fluid lines, wastewater impoundments, frac pits, natural gas pipelines and hydraulic fracturing photos. The Marcellus Shale gas play from an aerial view. Premier photographs of Marcellus Shale gas drilling.The Marcellus Shale play in pictures from the air! |
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Black-lined impoundment in a farm
field |
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"L"-shaped impoundment and drilling
location |
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New Marcellus Shale drilling location
ready to go |
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Gas production plant similar to the
early days of the
MarkWest
plant near Houston Pa. Western Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale
natural gas is 'wet gas' with ethane, butane and propane, so those
liquids must be extracted by processing plants like this one, before
the methane can be sold to natural gas utilities. |
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Looks like the green hose on the
lower right side of this pit is being used to illegally siphon-off
wastewater from the pit into the roadside ditch. Call the DEP! |
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Odd-shaped impoundment |
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Marcellus Shale drilling has begun |
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Impoundment dam with three pumps
situated next to each other on the embankment |
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Sound wall constructed between the
house and drilling location. Drilling takes place 24 hours a day, 7
days a week |
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Marcellus drilling began in rural
areas like this one in western Pennsylvania |
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Drilling location with a production
pit on the drilling pad |
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Triple impoundments next to an active
drilling location |
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Another triple impoundment with white
stains on the black liners |
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Drilling close to a neighborhood |
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'Mr Yuk' stuff in that middle pit! |
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Residual waste tanker dumping into
the pit on the right |
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Birds eye view of the same drilling
location |
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Milky-looking flowback in this
production pit |
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And you thought the Caribbean was
blue! |
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Initial drilling while extra fluid
impoundments are being constructed |
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Quad pits |
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Close-up of impoundments |
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The new family farm in Pennsylvania |
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Dual pits with a 'Residual Waste'
tanker dumping its load |
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This huge new impoundment may hold 15
million gallons. Once pits like this one are converted from
freshwater to wastewater impoundments they begin to smell terrible
as they gas-off volatile organic compounds (VOC's) |
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Bird netting creates lined appearance
over black liner |
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Compressor station site has been cut
out of Penn's Woods |
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Series of Marcellus impoundment dams
and a drilling pad |
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The lower left production pit has
been filled-in |
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Frac Tech
fracking Marcellus Shale gas wells |
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Hydraulic fracturing location |
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Sand tankers are on the top left,
while more than a dozen trucks in the middle (with round
attachments) create the high pressure needed to fracture Marcellus
Shale. |
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Marcellus Shale drilling underway |
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Milky looking frac pit with Residual
Waste tanker dumping |
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Dual pits and a drilling pad wrap
around this farm |
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Production pit has just been
backfilled |
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Same impoundments in an earlier photo
have badly stained liners |
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More pits at a former drilling
location being "reclaimed" |
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Close-up of pit reclamation work |
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Close to Home |
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Marcellus drilling is the new
neighbor on this block |
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