From the 3rd to 7th April 2016, members of the FracRisk consortium were hosted for a number of site visits by the Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research.

 

The consortium members comprise a number of academics and applied science‐related industry partners from across the EU. The aim of the visit was to enable consortium members to get broad hands-on experience of the shale gas industry and regulatory framework which has developed in this region around the production of the resources located principally in the Marcellus Shale.

 

In the PDF to the left we describe a number of key impressions from the visit, with the aim of informing the debate about hydraulic fracturing (i.e. fracking) at the EU level. A number of recommendations, one of the objectives of Fracrisk, can be derived from this visit.