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News Regional & State News Report: Pennsylvania natural gas production jumps 60 percent in six months
Monday, 22 August 2011 04:58

Report: Pennsylvania natural gas production jumps 60 percent in six months

Written by  Mary Wilson

(Harrisburg) - A new report shows the state’s natural gas production jumped 60 percent in the past six months. Counties at the head of the gas-producing pack include Bradford, Susquehanna, Tioga, Greene and Washington. Kathryn Klaber, president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, says there’s no surprise there, since that’s where the most wells are. "The way this development is going to occur, is there will be concentrated development in the areas that already have infrastructure," she says. "So, gathering lines, the roads that have been built, the field offices that have been set up and staffed." More than 1,600 active wells in the state produced more than 432 billion cubic feet of natural gas between January and July. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, that’s more than half of what Pennsylvania consumes in natural gas over an entire year.

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