Technical Session II: Environmental Effects of Modern Minerals Extraction

• • Presentation speakers
    • John Mauro, Senior Vice President, SC&A, Inc.
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  Monday, September 24th, 2012 - Ambassador Room (Lobby Level)

  Presiding session chairs: Don Zuch and Dr. Robert W. Chase

  08:00  A Geochemical Context for Stray Gas Investigations in the Northern Appalachian Basin:  Implications of Analyses of Natural Gases from Quaternary – through – Devonian – Age Strata -  Fred J. Baldassare, ECHELON Applied Geoscience; Mark A. McCaffrey, Weatherford Laboratories;  and John A. Harper, Pennsylvania Geological Survey

  08:25   Geologic and baseline groundwater for naturally occurring, shallow source, thermogenic methane in Northeastern Pennsylvania – Brent Wilson, Chesapeake Energy Corp.

  08:50  An Innovative Method for Documenting Base-line Conditions and Monitoring Fresh Water Aquifers in Conjunction with Oil and Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing and Completion Operations – Val O. Kofoed, Mike L. Jessop and Michael Wallace, Willowstick Technologies

  09:15  How Gas from the English #1 Well Escaped and Invaded Residential Homes Causing One to Explode, Geauga County, Ohio – E. Scott Bair, The Ohio State University and Tom Tomastik, Ohio Department of Natural Resources

  09:40  Real-Time Monitoring System for Evaluating Long-Term Variability in Methane in Domestic Water Wells in Pennsylvania - Debby Mcelreath, Chesapeake Energy Corporation; Charles B. Whisman, Groundwater & Environmental Services, Inc.; Charles Olmsted, Chesapeake Energy Corporation; Denise Good and Richard Wardrop Groundwater & Environmental Services, Inc.

  10:05 Break

  10:25  Treating Produced Water from Remote Natural Gas Operations with Zero Liquid Discharge at the Well Field and Compressor Stations Utilizing Adiabatic Concentration Principles – History of a Joint Development Project - Terry A. Beasy and Craig T. Clerkin, Heartland Technology Partners, LLC Jim Davis, Waste Management, Inc.; and Bernard F. Duesel, Heartland Technology Partners, LLC

  10:50  Elevated Levels of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material Associated with Shale Gas Extraction – Joe Mauro, Sanford Cohen & Associates

  11:15  Evaluating and Predicting Subsidence from Abandoned Underground Mines in Ohio - James McDonald, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey

  11:40 Regulating Air Emissions from Wellhead Operations: Good Public Policy or an Existential Threat to Operations? - John P. Martin, JP Martin Energy Strategy LLC and Nicholas Czarnecki, Lowham Walsh LLC

 

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