Health data with respect to Marcellus Shale development May 7

Network of Shale Water Researchers, Penn State University., May 1, 2018

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Brian Schwartz, professor at Johns Hopkins University and senior investigator in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Services Research at Geisinger, will speak at Penn State on health data related to Marcellus Shale development.

Schwartz will talk from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, May 7, in 112 Walker Building. His presentation, titled “Does Unconventional Natural Gas Development Affect Human Health,” is free and open to the public. The event is part of the EarthTalks series, sponsored by Penn State’s Earth and Environmental Systems institute (EESI).

Schwartz is an environmental epidemiologist and a physician who specializes in occupational and environmental medicine. He serves as director of the Environmental Health Institute, a joint effort between Johns Hopkins and Geisinger to study how changes in land use, energy production, and food and water systems impact human health in central and northeast Pennsylvania.

His talk will review how epidemiologic studies are done; how unconventional natural gas development could affect human health and the possible pathways; the differences between individual-level and contextual exposures; findings from the research that has been completed from the Environmental Health Institute; and then a brief summary of ongoing work.

The Marcellus Shale boom began about a decade ago in Pennsylvania due in part to technological advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” More than 10,000 unconventional wells have been drilled since, but “fracking” has remained controversial due to concerns about potential environmental and health impacts.

Schwartz, a professor in the Department of Environmental health Sciences in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, examines health effects of chemicals through occupational, environmental and molecular epidemiology studies.

More recently, he has focused on global environmental sustainability, including how land use, energy choices, food production, and water quantity and quality are contributing to global climate change, ecosystem degradation, biodiversity and species losses – and ultimately how these factors pose health risks to humans.

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Associations between Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Nasal and Sinus, Migraine Headache, and Fatigue Symptoms in Pennsylvania

Data-driven Analytics in Unconventional Reservoirs

Subtitle: Data-Driven Analytics in Unconventional Resources

Author: Shahab D. Mohaghegh

© 2017 by Springer Verlag GmbH

#- Describes the use of artificial neural networks and fuzzy sets in petroleum engineering

# – Explains data mining in petroleum engineering

# – Demonstrates the only data driven reservoir modeling and production engineering technique for unconventional resources – especially shale

# – Examines tools for analysis, predictive modeling, and optimization of production from shale in the absence of well-understood and well-defined physics of fluid flow in shale

>>>>>>>>>> OVERVIEW

This book describes the application of modern information technology to reservoir modeling and well management in shale. While covering Shale Analytics, it focuses on reservoir modeling and production management of shale plays, since conventional reservoir and production modeling techniques do not perform well in this environment. Topics covered include tools for analysis, predictive modeling and optimization of production from shale in the presence of massive multi-cluster, multi-stage hydraulic fractures.

Given the fact that the physics of storage and fluid flow in shale are not well-understood and well-defined, Shale Analytics avoids making simplifying assumptions and concentrates on facts (Hard Data – Field Measurements) to reach conclusions.

Also discussed are important insights into understanding completion practices and re-frac candidate selection and design. The flexibility and power of the technique is demonstrated in numerous real-world situations.

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Shahab D. Mohaghegh is the president and CEO of Intelligent Solutions, Inc. (ISI) and Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering at West Virginia University. A pioneer in the application of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining in the Exploration and Production industry, he holds B.S., MS, and PhD degrees in petroleum and natural gas engineering. He has authored more than 180 technical papers and carried out more than 50 projects with major international companies.

He is a SPE Distinguished Lecturer and has been featured in the Distinguished Author Series of SPE’s Journal of Petroleum Technology (JPT) four times. He has been honored by the U.S. Secretary of Energy for his technical contribution in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon (Macondo) incident in the Gulf of Mexico and has served as a member of U.S. Secretary of Energy’s Technical Advisory Committee on Unconventional Resources.

Seismic Survey of Northcentral PA

CGG Wraps-Up Multi-Client Marcellus Seismic Survey in NorthCentral Pennsylvania

From an Press Release by CGG,  January 23, 2014

CGG has just announced  that it has extended its data library of shale acreage in the United States by completing a vast three-year multi-client 3D land seismic program targeting the Marcellus Shale Fairway. The Marcellus Shale is considered to be a leading shale play for future natural gas exploration and production in the United States.

CGG conducted the 1,566-square-mile program in six phases in Lycoming, Tioga, Clinton, Centre and Clearfield Counties in Central Pennsylvania. 

It is believed to be the largest combined onshore seismic survey ever acquired in the continental United States.

As the terrain in Central Pennsylvania gradually became more rugged and mountainous, CGG switched from deploying the Sercel 428XL cable acquisition system to using the Sercel UNITE(R) wireless acquisition system to acquire the complex seismic program.

By the end of 2014 all six phases will be merged together to offer a seamless data set processed with state-of-the-art interpolation and migration techniques over the entire program. Currently this data set is available over the Lycoming II and Brookside portions of the survey.

Jean-Georges Malcor, CGG CEO, said: “Our three-year Marcellus Fairway survey has been the cornerstone of our strategy to develop a robust multi-client data library of shale acreage in North America.

Representing over 118,000 shots and millions of receiver locations, we have completed one of the most difficult and challenging programs in the history of U.S. onshore seismic. We are confident that the merged survey will produce the best image and reservoir attributes possible of the Marcellus Shale to help our clients decide which leaseholds to develop first and how to optimize their drilling and completion programs to avoid hazards and maximize production.”