The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) published its semi-annual (every 6 months) production report yesterday for Marcellus/Utica Shale gas production. The big news is that once again PA has shattered another record. In the second half of 2014 PA produced 2 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas, making it ~4 Tcf for the entire year. That works out to be around 16% of all gas used throughout the United States–coming from a single state. Chesapeake Energy produced the most gas in 2H14 (with 712 producing wells), followed by Cabot Oil & Gas (340 producing wells). Below we have some more stats and facts about PA’s production for 2014…
