Area Businesses Benefit from Marcellus Boom
Caitlin Cook | The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. The U. S. Energy Information Administration released its U.S. Crude Oil and Natural Gas Proved Reserves 2013 report recently released, showing increases in...
View ArticleShale Production Hits 132 Billion Cubic Feet
By CASEY JUNKINS Staff Writer , The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Energy companies in Ohio produced more than 132 billion cubic feet of natural gas from July 1-Sept. 30, up...
View ArticleLow oil prices won’t hurt US drilling, feds say
By Timothy Cama Oil prices will remain low next year, but not so low as to hurt domestic oil drilling, federal analysts predicted. Crude oil in the West Texas Intermediate benchmark will average $62.75...
View ArticleMarcellus Shale Creating Regional Opportunities, National Growth
Safe, job-creating American shale development continues to climb at a “breakneck pace”, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) monthly drilling productivity report released...
View ArticleFeds approve another pipeline expansion to accommodate Marcellus Shale
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved an addition to the interstate Transco pipeline that will help more Marcellus Shale gas get to New Jersey. The Leidy Southeast line is essentially a...
View ArticleFracking will boost Maryland’s economy
Wenonah Hauter’s recent op-ed on the dangers of fracking in Maryland missed the mark completely (“There is no safe fracking, Mr. O’Malley,” Dec. 3). Ms. Hauter argues that Gov. Martin O’Malley...
View ArticleLift the ban on exporting oil
By Chris Faulkner Crude oil prices are down 40 percent in recent months. There’s a surplus of two million barrels being pumped each day. Estimates are that demand for oil will fall in 2015. And yet in...
View ArticleThe energy boom: It’s not just for men
KENEDY — A stiff, chilly wind from the north whips through the city. Ingrid Hollinger isn’t fazed. She’s felt this kind of cold before. “I’m used to it by now,” she says, standing in the shadows of an...
View ArticleUpstate NY to Cuomo: We Need Fracking, ‘We Need Work’
By John Blosser To frack or not to frack, that is the question, and New York’s Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resounding “not” has not discouraged pro-fracking activists in the Empire State.Anywhere...
View ArticleFirstEnergy is finding new electricity sales in Ohio’s shale play
By DAN SHINGLER Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. has found a new market for huge amounts of industrial-scale electricity among the natural gas processing plants that are springing up in eastern Ohio. With...
View ArticleHydraulic Fracking and Earthquakes
Are earthquakes caused by water injection commonly employed in hydraulic fracturing operations? Is seismicity caused by the hundreds of oil disposal wells that are scattered throughout shale ranges in...
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