Career Day

Dayton Elementary School

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Where does Oil & Gas Come From?

• Oil and Gas are fossil fuels and

are believed to have been

formed during the

Carboniferous Period hundreds

of millions of years ago. The

Earth was covered by swamps

and algae filled oceans. As

things died they sank to the

bottom and accumulated in

layers of peat that became

fossil fuels from years of heat

and pressure.

http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter08.html

Early Oil & Gas Wells

• When do you think the

first oil well was

drilled?

• Where was it drilled?

http://explorepahistory.com/kora/files/1/2/1-2-33C-25-ExplorePAHistory-a0b1x4-a_349.jpg

First Known Oil Wells

347 CE in China

• 800’ deep using bits attached to

bamboo drilling rods

http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/2/7/6/4/ar125080934746726.jpg

http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/1/6/9/4/9/ar125080944794961.jpg

First Commercial Oil Well

1859 Titusville, PA

• Colonel Edwin Drake

– Pennsylvania Rock Oil

Company

– 69.5’ Deep

– Produced ~ 20bbl per day

(~840 gal)

http://members.tripod.com/edward_weigert/eldrake.jpg

http://media-1.web.britannica.com/eb-media/84/19384-004-01CF4CFE.jpg

Bureau of Oil and Gas

Management

The Bureau of Oil and gas Management is responsible for the statewide oil and gas

conservation and environmental programs to facilitate the safe exploration,

development, and recovery of Pennsylvania's oil and gas reservoirs in a manner

that will protect the Commonwealth’s natural resources and the environment. The

bureau develops policy and programs for the regulation of oil and gas development

and production pursuant to the Oil and gas Act, the Coal Resource Coordination

Act, and the Oil and Gas Conservation Law; oversees the oil and gas permitting

and inspection programs; develops statewide regulation and standards; conducts

training programs for industry; and works with the Interstate Oil and gas Compact

Commission and the Technical Advisory Board.

Regulations enforced

• Oil and Gas Conservation Law (1961)

• Chapter 79 – Oil and Gas Conservation (1971)

• Chapter 91 – Pollution Prevention (1971)

• Chapter 102 – Erosion Control (1972)

• Dam Safety and Encroachments Act (1978)

• Solid Waste Management Act (1980)

• Chapter 105 – Dam Safety and Waterway Management (1980)

• Coal and Gas Resource Coordination Act (1984)

• Oil and Gas Act (1984)

• Clean Streams Law (1987)

• Chapter 78 – Oil and gas Wells (1987)

What we do!

As a Water Quality Specialist in the Bureau

of Oil and Gas Management you are tasked

to perform routine inspections of oil and gas

locations, investigate complaints, provide

notification of violations to operators, take

water samples and enforce all applicable

laws, regulations and acts.

Educational Requirements

• Environmental Trainee:

– A Bachelor's Degree with major course work in an

appropriate physical or biological science or an

closely related environmental field.

• Water Quality Specialist:

– Successful completion of the training program for the

Environmental Trainee; or any equivalent combination

of experience and training which affords the applicant

the required knowledges and abilities.

My Education

• Bachelors Degree in Marine Biology

– Obtained May 2002

– Florida Institute of Technology

My Current Position

• Water Quality Specialist Supervisor – Eligibility requirements:

• Two years of experience as a Water Quality Specialist;

or

Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training

which affords the applicant the required knowledges and

abilities.

Number of wells permitted » drilled

• 2011 – 1,511* » 627** (228 Shallow wells, 399 Marcellus Shale)

• 2010 – 6,581 » 2,851 (1,397 Shallow wells, 1,454 Marcellus Shale)

• 2009 – 6,233 » 2,524 (1,761 Shallow wells, 763 Marcellus Shale)

• 2008 – 7,883 » 4,388 (4,192 Shallow wells, 196 Marcellus Shale)

• 2007 – 7,241 » 4,152

• 2006 – 7,308 » 4,183

• 2005 – 6,042 » 3,654

* As of 4/5/2011

** As of 4/6/2011

Marcellus Shale

http://geology.com/articles/marcellus-shale.shtml http://geology.com/articles/marcellus-shale.shtml

Siting the well

Building a Location

Drilling the Well

Fracing the Well

Restoring the Well Site

Producing the Well

Well Construction

http://geology.com/articles/mineral-rights/mineral-rights.gif

Why do we need to perform

inspections?

How close are we to an oil or gas

well right now?

Questions?