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Evaluating a groundwater supply contamination incident attributed to Marcellus
Shale gas development
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Llewellyn GT
; Dorman F
; Westland JL
; Yoxtheimer D
; Grieve P
; Sowers T
; Humston-Fulmer E
; Brantley SL
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
2015[May]; 112
(20
): 6325-30
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High-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) has revolutionized the oil and gas
industry worldwide but has been accompanied by highly controversial incidents of
reported water contamination. For example, groundwater contamination by stray
natural gas and spillage of brine and other gas drilling-related fluids is known
to occur. However, contamination of shallow potable aquifers by HVHF at depth has
never been fully documented. We investigated a case where Marcellus Shale gas
wells in Pennsylvania caused inundation of natural gas and foam in initially
potable groundwater used by several households. With comprehensive 2D gas
chromatography coupled to time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GCxGC-TOFMS), an
unresolved complex mixture of organic compounds was identified in the aquifer.
Similar signatures were also observed in flowback from Marcellus Shale gas wells.
A compound identified in flowback, 2-n-Butoxyethanol, was also positively
identified in one of the foaming drinking water wells at nanogram-per-liter
concentrations. The most likely explanation of the incident is that stray natural
gas and drilling or HF compounds were driven ? 1-3 km along shallow to
intermediate depth fractures to the aquifer used as a potable water source. Part
of the problem may have been wastewaters from a pit leak reported at the nearest
gas well pad-the only nearby pad where wells were hydraulically fractured before
the contamination incident. If samples of drilling, pit, and HVHF fluids had been
available, GCxGC-TOFMS might have fingerprinted the contamination source. Such
evaluations would contribute significantly to better management practices as the
shale gas industry expands worldwide.
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