Webinar To Explain Seismic Testing

Seismic testing webinar slated for Thursday

The Progress-Clearfield, PA

UNIVERSITY PARK - A Web-based seminar sponsored by Penn State Extension will examine seismic testing associated with Marcellus gas development in Pennsylvania.

Titled "Seismic Testing: What's It All About?," the 75-minute webinar will begin at 1 p.m. on Thursday. Presenters will be Kenneth Hall of Kenneth Hall Consulting Services, Snow Shoe, and Dennis Langlois of Houston, Appalachian region sales and marketing manager for CGG Veritas.

Hall is a retired financial adviser who has been involved in natural gas leasing and investment for more than 15 years. He manages more than 30,000 acres of gas rights in northern Centre County and has negotiated gas leases on more than 40,000 acres.

Langlois will offer a slide show presentation, giving a brief summary of events that take place in acquiring a 3-D seismic survey, from the initial contact with the landowners until his company has acquired the data and left the area.

"The slide presentation will show maps with surface abstracts and the recording grid needed to image the subsurface," he said. "There also will be pictures showing the different operations and the equipment that will be used to acquire this data." Read the whole story.....

Langlois hopes webinar participants will ask questions about the process because he is hoping to dispel misconceptions and clarify misinformation about seismic-testing operations.

For more information, go to http://extension.psu.edu/naturalgas/events/webinar-seismic-testing.