It took 10 months for a group of staffers and volunteers from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Powdermill Nature Reserve to sort through the state’s data and count the number of Marcellus Shale wells.
After analyzing all of the data, Powdermill believes that since 2000, the state has permitted 9,848 Marcellus Shale wells, of which 6,391 are either drilled and/or producing. There are currently 2,457 active permits that could eventually be drilled. Another 349 wells have either been abandoned, plugged, declared inactive, shut-in or their status is unknown.
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