Charts and Data
The Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative was formed to monitor employment trends, tax policy, economic development, and the community impacts of energy extraction in the Marcellus and Utica Shale. The Collaborative plans to release its first report tracking shale-related employment trends in member states in November 2013. Read more about the project. Below is a collection of charts and data that researchers with the five states have gathered related to shale development. Click on the charts for a larger view. Resource Extraction Highly Sensitive to Price Gas and oil development in Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia was largely fueled by sharply rising commodity prices during 2000-2010. As natural gas prices have declined beginning in 2009, gas drilling activity has slowed and the search for shale oil, which has a much higher price, has intensified. Source. U.S. Energy Information AdministrationSource. U.S. Energy Information Administration Source. U.S. Energy Information Administration Shale-related Job Growth Has Slowed Recently In 2012, the number of new wells drilled in Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia fell as falling natural gas prices led to drilling companies to curtail the development of new wells. This chart presents the change in shale-related employment from the first quarter of each year to illustrate that as new drilling has slowed so has shale-related job growth. Pennsylvania Sources. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Baker Hughes. 2013 rig data represents the average in the first half of the year.Sources. U.S. Energy Information Administration (2000-2011), Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (2012) West Virginia Sources. West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, and Baker Hughes. 2013 rig data represents the average in the first half of the year.Sources. U.S. Energy Information Administration (1990-2011), West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (2012) Ohio Sources. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Baker Hughes. 2013 permit and well data as of July 12, 2013. 2013 operating rigs is the average over the first half of the year.Source. U.S. Energy Information Administration (1990-2011), Ohio Department of Natural Resources (2012) Source. U.S. Energy Information Administration (1990-2011), Ohio Department of Natural Resources (2012) Virginia
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