all of them were shallow, right?
When I lived there, yes, all shallow. There's Marcellus in the area now, and I have seen em outside of work, and been on the pads for work.
Coudy never had a Marcellus until two years ago.
Correct, they didn't have ANY until two years ago, all of the shallow gas was well west of that.
If there was a Marcellus how many wells on the pad?
Already said they weren't Marcellus. They were shallow gas wells, a single well on a pad, placed on a grid about every 1/4 mile. Marcellus wells typically put 8 or 12 on a pad, if that company has the rights to enough surrounding land anyway. But the grid spacing is every 2-3 miles instead of every quarter mile, so the actual number of wells is similar.
Have they been completed?
Yep, well, the final landscaping crew hasn't smoothed out the one yet. Of the ones by my dad's, 2 were fracked in the last 3 years. I went out to observe the one weekend, and took some stream samples from the nearby stream too. Dang things go all night, light up the house at 2 a.m. like its noon, and shake everything to all heck. But only lasted 2 nights of the fracking. Those are shallow wells though, yes, there's a shallow gas boom on as well. On a shallow well, from the moment the company shows to when they leave is about a year. But in that year, the initial landscaping crew will be there a week, then it'll sit empty a month, then an crew will show up and set up the equipment and the plastic lined wastewater pool, and it'll sit empty, then the drilling crew is there for a week or two, then it sits empty again. Then the frack crew and water trucks show, and work nonstop for about 2 days, and then the site sits empty another month. Etc. ad nauseum.
Of the Marcellus wells, no, the ones I've been on are not complete, and I've never been physically present during the frack, the only times I've gone on site were with drill crews. They take a lot longer overall for a given pad. Same basic process, but once they finish a well, the drilling crew comes again and starts well #2, and the whole thing starts over. Again and again up to 12 wells per pad.
How many Marcellus were being drilled in Indiana when you were in college?
None, just literally thousands of shallow wells. But I've been back recently, and yes, there's Marcellus going on. Haliburton trucks everywhere, I think Homer City is their regional base.
How many Marcellus have been drilled in Tionesta?
2 that I know of in the general area, and roughly 40,000 shallow wells in that immediate area.
