unconventional gas well drilling / main deep gas reservoir / conventional gas wells / gas reservoir / gas reservoirs / gas drillers / harmful chemicals / natural gas / gas well drilling / potential gas reservoir / steel pipe / oil / steel casing / /
NaturalFeature
Town Hill / Town Creek / Dans Mountain / Marcellus sea / Sideling Hill / /
Organization
US Department of Energy / American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin / American Petroleum Institute / Susquehanna River Drainage Susquehanna River Basin Commission / /
Person
Terry Engelder / David K. Brezinski Maryland / Gary G. Lash / /
Position
driller / /
ProvinceOrState
Allegany County / West Virginia / Ohio / Alabama / Garret County / New York / Georgia / Garrett County / Washington / /
Region
central New York / Eastern Maryland / central Ohio / northeastern Alabama / northern West Virginia / western Maryland / /
Introduction The Oriskany Sandstone is the main deep gas reservoir in western Maryland. Appalachian gas drillers have long suspected that the dark gray to black shale, known as the Marcellus Shale, that overlies the Oris