Shale Gas

Developing a Natural Resource

The need for a clean, reliable, and secure energy supply continues to be a growing national concern. SAIC's shale-gas team works with customers across the country to help responsibly develop shale gas reserves and provide innovative energy solutions. SAIC leverages a deep bench of talent in hydrogeology, environmental sciences, and engineering to support the needs of organizations dedicated to the development of wells and infrastructure in shale gas basins. We combine a long-standing involvement in the natural gas industry with a commitment to clean energy alternatives, advancing the shale gas frontier in a responsible, defensible, and technically reliable manner.

Focused Customer Approach

By combining our capabilities and technical knowledge of regional geology, water resources, engineering requirements, and regulatory permitting and compliance, we provide innovative solutions to exploration and production firms, midstream firms, and natural gas service providers. Our locations include the Barnett, Eagle Ford, Woodford, Fayetteville, Haynesville, Green River, New Albany, Niobrara, Utica, and Marcellus shale basins. We support oil and gas companies developing the natural gas in shale, and other oil and gas projects, through our offices located in:

• Harrisburg, Exton, Towanda, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Columbus and Twinsburg, Ohio
• Seattle, Washington
• Los Angeles, Orange County, California
• Casper, Wyoming
• Little Rock, Arkansas
• Denver and Lakewood, Colorado
• Detroit, Michigan

• St. Louis, Missouri
• Oklahoma City, Norman, and Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Arlington, Plano, and San Antonio, Texas
• Oak Ridge, Tennessee
• Syracuse, New York
• Wheeling, West Virginia

Maximizing Value Through Integrated Services

Whether your needs are upstream or midstream, engineering, environmental or specialized, SAIC's integrated and multidisciplinary services can help maximize your shale gas exploration and development. Click on a shale gas service below to learn more.

• Upstream services

  SAIC's offerings span the full upstream spectrum of shale gas exploration, development, and production. Our relevant expertise covers industrial facilities, water reservoirs, treatment plants, and pipelines. Services include:

  • Topographic surveys
  • Fracture trace analysis
  • Hydrogeologic analysis for water supply via groundwater withdrawal
  • Groundwater supply aquifer testing
  • Water supply sourcing and permitting
  • Wetlands evaluations
  • Access road, pad, impoundment, and water withdrawal design
  • Access road, pad, impoundment, and dam permitting
  • Construction oversight and management
  • Background, baseline, and routine residential sampling
  • Multi-media chemical and isotopic sampling and analysis
  • Drilling permitting
  • Air quality permitting (generators)
  • Water usage management and reporting
  • Frac water treatment and disposal support
  • Injection wells for storage
  • Pavement repair design and testing
  • Geographic information systems (GISs)
  • Information and database management
  • Regulatory liaison, negotiation and expert testimony
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) and Pennsylvania Act 65 monitoring and reporting

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• Midstream services

  SAIC's offerings span the full midstream continuum of gathering, compression, treating, blending, processing, storing, and transporting of shale gas. SAIC provides full engineering, design, and design-build services for new facilities as well as modifications, expansions, and upgrades of existing facilities. Services include:

  • Wetlands and archaeological surveys
  • Soil and groundwater investigations and remediation
  • Stream crossing permitting
  • DesignBuild^SM project delivery
  • Gas separation and fractionation system design
  • Pipeline design
  • Design, construction, and construction management of compressor stations
  • Compressor station air permitting
  • Treatment of dehydration fluids

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• Engineering services
• Environmental investigation and remediation services

  Responsible development of the United States' shale gas reserves requires science, engineering, and regulatory compliance expertise. SAIC combines environmental capabilities and technical knowledge of regional geology, water resources, engineering requirements, and regulatory permitting and compliance to provide innovative solutions to exploration and production firms, midstream firms, and natural gas service providers nationwide.

  • Due diligence
  • Soil and groundwater impact delineation and characterization
  • Soil and groundwater remediation
  • Groundwater characterization
  • Geophysics
  • Stray gas investigations and mitigation
  • Facility and site planning
  • Remedial design and site management
  • Construction management and optimization
  • Rapid response environmental services

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• Specialized and crosscutting services

  SAIC solves our shale gas customers' most complex needs with innovative applications of technology and expertise. Services include:

  • Baseline environmental surveys prior to property acquisition and divestiture
  • Geophysical surveys of drilling pads, well bores, and water wells
  • Wetlands delineations
  • Rare and endangered species evaluations
  • Cultural and historical resource surveys
  • Traffic studies and highway occupancy permits
  • Road construction oversight and pavement testing
  • Geotechnical evaluations
  • Compaction testing
  • Spill prevention countermeasure control (SPCC) plans
  • Naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) surveys
  • Environmental, safety and health support
  • Public relations and communications services
  • Regulatory review and analysis

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