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Facts about natural gas operations

It takes a great deal of effort and expertise to locate and extract natural gas. Located miles beneath the surface, high-tech engineering practices are coordinated with environmental guidelines to bring up the gas and process it in the safest manner possible. This can take months to complete. The processes we employ can be found on this page. Please look over our fact sheets for detailed information on horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing and water usage.


Marcellus Shale operations fact sheets


General natural gas operations fact sheets

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CNG is Compressed Natural Gas

Did you know compressed natural gas burns 70% cleaner, costs 40% less and gets equivalent gas mileage as gasoline?
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of little known facts
about CNG.

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