Dominion now Moving Ahead with Gas Fractionation Plant at Natrium in WV

August 7, 2011

With the completion of archaeological digging, Dominion Transmission is ready to move forward with its planned natural gas processing facility on land next to the PPG Industries plant at Natrium in Marshall County some nine miles north of New Martinsville on the Ohio River.  ”This will be built on the ground where the archaeological dig took [...]

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Gas Well Driller Cited With Repeat OSHA Violations in Harrison County

August 7, 2011

Regulators have fined Jay-Bee Oil & Gas more than $73,000 after finding the same kinds of violations in Harrison County that inspectors found a year ago when they visited the site.  The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued 10 repeat citations, three serious citations and four other citations last week for problems at [...]

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Marcellus Select Committee Delays Vote on Abolishing Examining Board

August 6, 2011

During the last meeting of the Select Committee on Marcellus Shale, the Committee spent two hours discussing whether to eliminate the controversial, industry dominated Oil and Gas Inspectors Examining Board and allow the DEP to hire oil and gas inspectors the way it hires other environmental inspectors within the agency. According to the Charleston Gazette, [...]

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Water Well Contaminated by Fracking, Under Conditions Prevailing in 1982

August 4, 2011

In 1982, the Kaiser Gas Company drilled a gas well on the property of Mr. James Parsons in Jackson County, WV, according to a 1987 EPA report to the US Congress. The well was fractured using a typical fracturing fluid or gel, common at that time. The residual fracturing fluid migrated into Mr. Parson’s water [...]

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Marcellus Shale Gases, Liquids, and Solids: The Trillion Dollar Question?

August 4, 2011

We’re sitting on what may be the second-largest natural-gas field in the world—but is it possible to improve our air and water while making the most of the enormous economic opportunity?  An article, by Christine O’Toole, on Marcellus shale is in the August issue of Pittsburgh Magazine, and an introduction to it appears below.  Dubbed a “super-giant” find [...]

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Amendments Added by WV Select Committee on Marcellus Shale

August 3, 2011

The WV Joint Select Committee on Marcellus Shale is working off SB-424 to renew attempts to modernize the regulations for the natural gas industry.Seven amendments were put into place yesterday. In all but one case, the amendments were introduced by House members. In the seventh amendment, Sen. Orphy Klempa, D- Ohio, was the lead name, [...]

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Steel Pipe is Essential to Natural Gas Drilling, Gathering and Transmission

August 2, 2011

In Youngstown in Ohio on the edge of the Mahoning River, where once stood many blast furnaces for steel making there are more than 400 workers constructing a new steel plant to make pipe.  This was unthinkable a few years ago, to see a new $650 million steel plant here. When complete, it will stand [...]

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Fort Beeler Cryogenic Plant in Marshall County for “Wet-Gas” Being Expanded

July 31, 2011

Caiman Energy will be able to process 520 million cubic feet of natural gas per day at its Fort Beeler facility by next summer, as the company invests $500 million in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, according to the Wheeling Intelligencer.   The Fort Beeler cryogenic plant, near Cameron along U.S. 250 in Marshall County, [...]

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Utica Shale Holds Great Promise for Ohio and Other States

July 31, 2011

On Thursday, Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. announced it believes the 1.25 million acres the company has leased above the Utica Shale formation in eastern Ohio is worth $15 billion to $20 billion. Chesapeake currently operates five Utica Shale rigs, expanding to eight by year’s end and up to 20 rigs in 2012.   Thus [...]

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IOGA Threatens Boycott of New Martinsville Businesses in Response to Drilling Ban

July 30, 2011

New Martinsville passed a ban on drilling within the city limits on July 6.  Now The Intelligencer /Wheeling News Register reports that Michael McCown, president of the West Virginia Independent Oil & Gas Association, has threatened a ban on commerce between the IOGA group and New Martinsville businesses. “This is ill-conceived. By them choosing to [...]

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