State Impact By Susan Phillips Tapping the Utica Shale in north central Pennsylvania could become the state’s next natural gas drilling boom, at least once the pipelines get built. Seneca Resources has announced the successful completion of a well on state forest land in Tioga County. Seneca, a subsidiary of National Fuel Gas Company, says […]
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Observer Reporter By Mike Jones A proposal to build a compressor station in South Strabane Township was pulled, but a Marcellus Shale pipeline transmission company now wants to build a different type of “facility in support of natural gas development” at the site. Columbia Midstream Group, a subsidiary of NiSource, submitted an application to the […]
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Pittsburgh Business Times By Ethan Lott Here are the top 5 companies with the most shale gas wells drilled in southwestern Pennsylvania, as ranked by the Pittsburgh Business Times in the Jan. 23 Weekly Edition. They are ranked by the number of wells drilled in shale-gas plays in the 11-county region: 1. Range Resources Corp. […]
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Trib Live By Katelyn Ferral EQT Corp. and Range Resources Corp. were among companies that improved reporting about the risks to the environment and communities from hydraulic fracturing in a scorecard from a group that pushes corporations to be more environmentally responsible. But the report released Thursday by the coalition of investment companies and shareholder […]
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Power Source By Don Hopey A massive, noisy natural gas flare will be visible next week in western Washington County, illuminating the first well that Range Resources Inc. drilled into the Utica Shale formation in five years. The flaring, an increasingly rare event in the Marcellus Shale gas play, is scheduled to begin Dec. 7 […]
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Trib Live By David Conti Four years ago, Bryan Dickson and Matt Ockree were among the youngest engineers working on gas well pads in Western Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale fields. “I was out in the frack van with Bryan a lot of days and a lot of nights, learning from the people with more experience,” said […]
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Trib Live By David Conti Four years ago, Bryan Dickson and Matt Ockree were among the youngest engineers working on gas well pads in Western Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale fields. “I was out in the frack van with Bryan a lot of days and a lot of nights, learning from the people with more experience,” said […]
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Huntington News CHARLESTON, W.Va. (November 06, 2014) – Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today announced he will be traveling to Brazil with members of the West Virginia Development Office to continue ongoing discussions with executive leadership from Odebrecht and Braskem. The 5-day mission, scheduled to take place November 10-14, will focus on next steps associated with […]
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By David Conti Lower gas prices and a production glut in Appalachia aren’t deterring the biggest drillers in the Marcellus shale. Companies continue to report surging production in their quarterly statements, and several are forecasting growth into next year. Production is growing because drillers are finding more efficient ways to extract gas from shale formations. […]
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TribLive By Jason Cato Lue Ann Pawlick never envisioned companies connected with oil and gas beating a path to Alta Vista Business Park when it broke ground in tiny Fallowfield, Washington County, in 2001. Today, three of the five companies in Alta Vista work in the industry. An energy company is set to start construction […]
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