Microseismic monitoring yields production optimization strategies for Marcellus shale

... to reduce treatment costs. The middle Devonian Marcellus shale covers more than 34 million acres in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.5 The Marcellus shale is the lower unit of the Hamilton Group and can be divided into ...

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