A few years ago, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), the agency responsible for state park and state forest lands throughout Pennsylvania, published maps on their website showing which state forest lands had been leased for the purpose of unconventional oil and gas exploration and development. Not only has that page been taken […]
At FracTracker, we are constantly adding new content to our maps page. In recent weeks, we have added new content for Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Arkansas. Now, we have updated our West Virginia Shale Viewer as well. West Virginia Shale Viewer. Please click the expanding arrows in the top right corner to access the legend and […]
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) releases unconventional oil and gas production and waste data twice a year. It is important to note that both datasets are self-reported from the industry, and there are usually a few operators who miss the reporting deadline. For that reason, FracTracker usually waits a week or so to […]
A couple of months ago, Laura Legere of the Scranton Times-Tribune published an article showing her research into determination letters sent by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) in response to people who claimed that their groundwater had been impacted by oil and gas activity in the state. Of the 973 complaints represented on this dataset, […]
The FracTracker Alliance got its start by monitoring the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania in the summer of 2010. Since then, many things have changed, including increased interest in shale deposits in a variety of formations throughout the country. We have been attempting to keep current in a variety of states, as requests come in for […]
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) publishes unconventional oil and gas production data twice a year. In its raw form, the data show the production values per well for a given six month period, either January to June or July to December. The FracTracker Alliance has aggregated the five most recent unconventional production reports […]
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) publishes data on unconventional oil and gas permits, drilled wells, and violations. The FracTracker Alliance has taken this data, and summarized it by month: There are numerous ways to interpret the raw data, to the point where it is easy to get bogged down in the specifics. Still, […]
In a May 19th article published in the Scranton Times-Tribune, Laura Legere discusses data that she has compiled from a Right-to-know law request to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP). The data show 969 complaints between 2008 and the fall of 2012. According to the article, 161 of these complaints include determination letters where […]
About the Map The FracTracker Alliance has been working with nine different community partners on a project to map instances where oil and gas activity are suspect of impacting groundwater supplies in the United States. The US Map of Suspected Well Water Impacts is now ready for its initial release, and consists of the following data […]
Recently, there has been a lot of attention focused on the Mayflower, Arkansas pipeline failure that resulted in a massive oil spill, particularly as it comes at a time when discussions of the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline project are once again heating up. However, the situation is far from unusual. In fact, according to data […]
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