For more information, please see our guide on hydraulic fracturing.

MCOR is Penn State's education and research initiative on unconventional gas plays, and is committed to expanding research capabilities on technical aspects of developing this resource and to providing science-based programming while protecting the Commonwealth's water resources, forests and transportation infrastructure.

Information from the Penn State Cooperative Extension to help citizens, landowners, businesses, local governments, and others understand the opportunities and challenges arising from the Marcellus Shale. Provides information on leasing and legal issues related to drilling in Pennsylvania.

Provides access to oil and gas reports and permitting and drilling maps as well as other oil and gas related information.

Collection of curated, archived sites relating to the Pennsylvania shale and the controversy around it.

2012 archived version of this database of over 1000 resources related to these shale plays in PA.

The ​guide provides an overview of how landscape’s change during shale gas development. It also includes sample leases and a section on best management practices.

USGS Fact Sheet 2009-3032

Eastern Gas Shales Project Report, 1980. DE83006387

USGS Fact Sheet 2011-3092

Eastern Gas Shales Project Report, 1979

USDOE Report, 2013

USGS Bulletin, 1909

USGS Fact Sheet 2012-3116

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EOS article from 2010. {access may be restricted to subscribers]