Marcellus Shale Coalition
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This summer, two Penn State University professors, Timothy Considine and Robert Watson, both from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, passed off a paid advertisement of gas industry talking points as a research paper.
While Considine and Watson have good academic credentials, those credentials are not within the discipline of community economics. Watson is a physical scientist and Considine has done most of his economic work on fuel markets.
Watson admits that the Marcellus Shale Committee, a group of 50 industry companies, paid $100,000 for the paper. At least one version, circulated in Harrisburg, during the tax debate, didn’t include that fact.
Considine and Watson wildly over reached. They claimed the economic impact here in 2008 was 28% of that achieved in the Barnett Shale in Texas and had already created 32.5% of the Barnett’s jobs. That from only 431 wells at the time, or 6% of the then current 7170 Barnett wells.
“An Emerging Giant”, was met with heavy criticism and outright contempt by a number of organizations and scholars. The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, a nonpartisan, policy study concluded “The “An Emerging Giant” report serves the narrow financial interests of its funder, the natural gas industry.” At a Marcellus Shale seminar in August, the acting secretary of conservation and natural resources, John Quigley, introduced Watson by saying that Watson’s study was “unsubstantiated by facts”. Nevertheless, the well funded gas industry PR machine has trumpeted “Emerging Giant” nationally so it has become the dominant word.
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"An Emerging Giant" pdf
http://www.pamarcellus.com/EconomicImpactsofDevelopingMarcellus.pdf
Disclaimer
Would you bet your life and land on a report like this?
This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by the Marcellus Shale Committee. Neither the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State nor the Marcellus Shale Committee, nor any person acting on behalf thereof, makes any warranty or representation, express or implied, with respect to the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of the information contained in the report nor that its use may not infringe privately owned rights, or assumes any liability with respect to the use of, or for damages resulting from the use of, any information, apparatus, method or process disclosed in this report. This report was written and produced for the Marcellus Shale Committee by the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Penn State University. The opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in the report are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of The Pennsylvania State University or the Marcellus Shale Committee. To obtain additional copies of the report or with questions regarding the content, contact Timothy Considine at tconsidi@uwyo
PA Marcellus Shale Coalition Members
Alta Resources, LLC
Anadarko Petroleum Corp.
Atlas Energy Resources, LLC
Burnett Oil Company
Cabot Oil and Gas Corp.
Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.
Chesapeake Energy Corporation
Chief Oil and Gas LLC
CNX Gas Corp.
Dominion Exploration & Production, Inc.
East Resources, Inc.
Encana Oil and Gas
Energy Corporation of America
Enerplus Resources USA
EOG Resources, Inc.
EQT Production Company
EXCO- North Coast Energy, Inc.
Hunt Oil Company
Key Energy Services, Inc.
J-W Operating Company
Marathon Oil
MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P.
Newfield Exploration
Pennsylvania General Energy Company, LLC
Penn Virginia
PDC Mountaineer, LLC
Phillips Production Company
Quest Resource Corporation
Range Resources
Rex Energy Corporation
Samson Resources Company
Seneca Resources Corp.
Southwestern Energy Company
Statoil
Talisman Energy USA Inc.
The Williams Companies
Turm Oil, Inc.
Ultra Resources Inc.
XTO Energy, Inc.
Associate Coalition Members
Allis-Chalmers Directional Drilling Services, LLC.
AOP Clearwater
ARM Oil & Gas Solutions
Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir
Borton-Lawson
Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney, PC
Complete Production Services/AWS/Titan
Crescent Directional Drilling, LP
EADS Group
Energy Transfer
Environmental Resources Management
Epic Energy Resources
Exterran Energy Solutions, L.P.
Fluids Management
Frac Tech Services, LLC.
Gas Technology Institute
Halliburton Energy Services
Hart Resource Technologies, Inc. & PA Brine Treatment, Inc.
Holloman Corporation
Hull & Associates, Inc.
K&L Gates
Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP
MI Swaco
Producers and Packers Plus
RETTEW
Schlumberger Oilfield Services
Select Energy Services, LLC
Steptoe Johnson
Superior Well Services, Ltd.
Tetra Tech
TeraAqua Resource Management
UGI Energy Services, Inc.
United States Steel Corporation
Universal Well Services, Inc.
URS Corporation
Weatherford International Ltd.
Weston Solutions, Inc.
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