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Chemistry data from leachates of hydraulic fracturing proppants collected from southeastern New Mexico, 2018-2019 Proppants used during hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells are manufactured to maximize petroleum yield by controlling the size, shape, density, and strength of the proppant material. The most common types of proppants are mined silica sand and manufactured ceramics, some of which are further modified with organic resin coatings to improve performance. Much of the work on the environmental and human health effects of proppant releases into the environment has focused on occupational silicosis, with little attention given to the potential effects from the organic coatings on these materials. This oversight is especially relevant in the context of dumping of unwanted proppant on the land surface, which has been... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Energy Resources, Environmental Health, Geochemistry, New Mexico, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... chemical analysis, environment, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, hydraulic fracturing, petroleum, Fewer tags Geochemical Data for Coal Wastes from Bituminous Coal Mining in Pennsylvania, 2022 Coal and coal byproducts may be economically important resources if enriched in critical minerals such as rare earth elements. The organic carbon they contain could be converted to gas using stimulated microbial methanogenesis. In this study, samples were collected from two underground mine sites in the bituminous region of southwest Pennsylvania to assess the potential for these uses from different types of stockpiled coal, including raw coal, clean coal, and refuse coal. Samples were analyzed for coal quality using proximate, ultimate, and sulfur forms analyses, and for major and trace elements. These data complement previous USGS studies on coal waste conducted in Pennsylvania and the Illinois Basin. Categories: Data; Tags: Energy Resources, Geochemistry, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... coal ash, coal resources, critical minerals, energy resources, environment, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, rare earth elements, Fewer tags Aqueous and solid phases partitioning of elemental constituents associated with Marcellus Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory (MSEEL) gas well produced wastewater, Morgantown, WV, 2016 - 2019 The Marcellus Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory (MSEEL) site is a long-term field site and laboratory at the Northeast Natural Energy LLC (NNE) production facility, adjacent to the Monongahela River, located in western Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA. NNE began drilling two horizontal production wells, MIP (Morgantown Industrial Park) -5H and MIP-3H, in the Marcellus Shale in 2014. The wells were completed in December 2015. Large volumes of wastewater are generated with natural gas production. These wastewaters contain organic and inorganic chemical constituents from fracturing fluids used during drilling and stimulation of gas in host rocks/shale, as well as chemical compounds that are derived from... Categories: Data; Tags: Energy Resources, Environmental Health, Geochemistry, MSEEL, Marcellus Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory, Morgantown, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, West Virginia, aluminum, arsenic, barium, boron, cadmium, calcium, chemical analysis, chromatography, chromium, cobalt, copper, dissolved metals, dissolved organic compounds, environment, geochemistry, hydraulic fracturing, iron, isotope geochemistry, isotopic analysis, laboratory experiments, laboratory methods, lead, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, natural gas resources, nickel, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, silicon, sodium, strontium, sulfur, suspended material (water), thallium, toxic trace element contamination, uranium, vanadium, water chemistry, water pH, water properties, water temperature, zinc, Fewer tags Geochemistry and microbiology data collected to study the effects of oil and gas wastewater dumping on arid lands in New Mexico The Permian Basin, straddling New Mexico and Texas, is one of the most productive oil and gas (OG) provinces in the United States. OG production yields large volumes of wastewater that contain elevated concentrations of major ions including salts (also referred to as brines), and trace organic and inorganic constituents. These OG wastewaters pose unknown environmental health risks, particularly in the case of accidental or intentional releases. Releases of OG wastewaters have resulted in water-quality and environmental health effects at sites in West Virginia (Akob, et al., 2016, Orem et al. 2017, Kassotis et al. 2016) and in the Williston Basin region in Montana and North Dakota (Cozzarelli et al. 2017, Cozzarelli... Categories: Data; Tags: Chihuahuan Desert, DNA sequencing, Eddy, Energy Resources, Geochemistry, All tags... New Mexico, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), chemical analysis, desert ecosystems, ecotoxicology, environment, geochemistry, geochemistry, habitat alteration and disturbance, industrial pollution, isotope geochemistry, isotopic analysis, mass spectroscopy, microbes, microbiology, petroleum, produced water, soil chemistry, soil resources, toxic trace element contamination, vegetation, Fewer tags Organic Compounds Identified via Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry in Produced Water Samples Collected at the Marcellus Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory (MSEEL) 2015-2019, Morgantown Industrial Park (MIP), West Virginia The Marcellus Shale Energy and Environmental Laboratory (MSEEL) field site in Morgantown, WV was established by West Virginia University in order to increase understanding of factors that affect resource recovery and environmental impacts from unconventional oil and gas development. The site, which is located in the Morgantown Industrial Park (MIP) adjacent to the Monongahela River, includes one well pad which hosts four horizontal gas wells that target the Marcellus Shale approximately 7400 ft below ground level. As part of the MSEEL study, the MIP 5H well was drilled in 2015. Water samples were collected from the holding pond used to hydraulically fracture the MIP 5H well (API 47-061-01699), and a time series... Categories: Data; Tags: City of Morgantown, Energy Resources, Environmental Health, Geochemistry, Hydrology, All tags... Marcellus Shale, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), West Virginia, chromatography, dissolved organic compounds, energy resources, environment, gas chromatography, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, hydraulic fracturing, mass spectroscopy, natural gas resources, produced water, water chemistry, Fewer tags