![]() [ Note: One update to the fact sheet- spreading wastewater on roads from unconventional shale gas wells was outlawed by DEP in 2016 regulations.Ĭlick Here to read through the EHP industry description. Waste Disposal - Injection wells, solid waste landfills, wastewater treatment forever Pipelines & Processing - Compressor Stations, Metering Stations, Pig Launchers, Processing and cryogenic plants Production - Flaring, Condensate Tanks, Glycol Dehydrators, Wellheads Preparation for Hydraulic Fracturing -Trucking Water, Frac Fluids, Sand Well Pad Development - Drilling, Casing The factsheet also provides a description of the environmental, health and community impact of each step. The Environmental Health Project put together a description with photos of each stage of developing natural gas industrial infrastructure from the well pad to your local natural gas utility that delivers gas to your home or business. ![]() ĭescription Of Gas Industry Infrastructure Underground Gas Storage Facilities - 51 active facilities based on conventional oil and gas well fields.Ĭlick Here to find oil and natural gas facilities near you. Natural Gas Processing Plants - 10 industrial natural gas processing plants and expanding Compressor Stations : over 600 and counting Distribution Pipelines - 81,000 miles gas distribution pipelines (100,000 miles of most unmapped gathering pipelines) and growing There are also about 250,000 abandoned conventional wells, although no one is really sure how many.īut oil and gas wells are just the beginning. ![]() While the work is honorable, the people who run the conventional and unconventional oil and natural gas companies have created an industrial machine that cuts through farms and forests- even Pennsylvania’s only national forest- punching holes in the ground, generating and spreading pollution, creating waste dumps and new brownfields, producing wastewater that has to be managed for decades to come and imposing legal liabilities for plugging those wells on well owners and state taxpayers with every new well they drill.ĭEP reports there have now been 202,188 conventional oil and gas wells drilled and 23,130 unconventional shale gas wells permitted in Pennsylvania. It’s a dirty, loud and sometimes dangerous industrial process for its workers and neighbors. If you use natural gas in your home or business, you are connected directly to this sprawling infrastructure and are personally responsible for supporting it.ĭo you believe drilling oil and natural gas wells is a clean business? Obviously not. Like the parable of the blind men and the elephant, we each only see one part of the creature and cannot imagine, based on our limited perspective, what it is that we are seeing and what the collective impact of those facilities are on our lives, health and the environment. It seems like a good time to review how the vast network of industrial oil and gas facilities has spread out over Pennsylvania’s landscape. Ģ023 is the 20th anniversary of the drilling of the first shale gas well in Pennsylvania that was also the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. ![]() The first oil or gas well hydraulically fracked was a conventional well in 1963 in Warren County. The first commercial oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859. ![]()
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