Construction of a natural-gas powered electric plant is set to begin soon in Lordstown, Ohio. The plant is expected to power 750,000 to 800,000 homes in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Construction could begin as soon as Thursday, according to Clean Energy Construction. The Massachusetts-based company said Lordstown was an ideal location because it is nearly halfway […]
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The Philadelphia Energy Action Team announced plans on Wednesday to double the volume of natural gas being used by Southeastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware, and Southern New Jersey. The group is seeking to rejuvenate the area’s economy by tapping into methane, butane, and other gases found in the Marcellus Shale. In a statement, the group acknowledges […]
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Reuters (Reuters) – Lifting a 40-year-old U.S. ban on crude exports would create a wide range of jobs in the oil drilling supply chain and broader economy even in states that produce little or no oil, according to a report released on Tuesday. Some 394,000 to 859,000 U.S. jobs could be created annually from 2016 […]
Read More Forbes Alex Epstein In this series I will be exploring the dangerous lack of energy education in the United States, particularly about the indispensable benefits provided by fossil fuel energy—the subject of my book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. This week I focus on the lack of education within the fossil fuel industry. In […]
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Trib Live By Patrick Varine The Marcellus shale industry has enabled an Export company to expand its footprint in the Pittsburgh area and add 150 jobs. Officials of Dura-Bond — a supplier of steel pipe, protective pipe coatings and pipeline products — announced Monday plans to hire 150 workers at the company’s Steelton facility to […]
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Power Source By Daniel Moore Supporters of solar energy have plenty to cheer about following a recent report on employment in the U.S. solar industry. In 2014, the industry added 31,000 solar jobs to bring employment to an all-time high of 173,807 nationwide, according to an annual census conducted by The Solar Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based solar research […]
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Washington Post By Lydia DePillis PHILADELPHIA – Jim Savage, the leader of United Steelworkers Local 10-1 at an oil refinery on the south side of Philadelphia, hasn’t walked out yet. But he’s ready: Nine plants across the country have been on strike since Feb. 1 in the first nationwide oil worker strike since 1980. And […]
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Trib Live By David Conti Chevron Corp.’s decision to cut 162 jobs from its Appalachian natural gas exploration unit in Moon represents the first major layoffs to hit Marcellus shale operations since prices began falling last year. The layoffs will affect up to 23 percent of the 700 people working for the company in Pennsylvania, […]
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SUGAR LAND, TX–(Marketwired – Dec 10, 2014) – Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — The boom in the Marcellus Shale has led to billions of dollars of capital investment and millions of hours of work for craft laborers that would not have taken place absent oil and gas development, […]
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News OK By Paula Burkes New Jersey native Greg Boxer recently resigned from Goldman Sachs in Manhattan to join American Energy Partners — the Oklahoma City-based oil and natural gas operating and asset management company started last year by Aubrey McClendon. Boxer said he couldn’t have received a more generous welcome in his move from […]
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