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Construction Worker Killed for New Natural Gas Processing Facility at Marcus Hook, PA

From an Article by Jamison Cocklin, Natural Gas Intelligence, April 1, 2015

Sunoco Logistics Partners LP confirmed that a contract employee was killed on Monday during work to convert the Marcus Hook industrial complex near Philadelphia into a natural gas liquids (NGL) terminal.

Spokesman Joe McGinn said the contractor, whose name was not released, died in an incident at about 2:30 p.m. EST Monday. The worker reportedly died of blunt force trauma after a large pylon fell. No other injuries were reported.

A U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) representative said federal officials are investigating. OSHA said the contractor worked for Los Angeles-based engineering and construction services firm AECOM, which has been cited for several OSHA violations in the past, according to agency records.

“The worker was struck by a steel pile during pile-driving operations,” said OSHA spokeswoman Joanna Hawkins. She added that the federal investigation could take up to six months to complete.

“No words can express the sorrow and pain that come when such a tragic event happens,” Sunoco stated. “Our deepest sympathies go out to the family and friends of the individual who died. They have suffered a devastating loss.”

Sunoco is converting the former oil refinery on the Delaware River into a terminal to store, export, process and distribute NGLs. (The Sunoco Mariner pipeline system which crosses southern Pennsylvania is being upgraded and repurposed to transport NGLs from southwestern PA, northern WV and eastern OH to the Marcus Hook facility.)

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No injuries in tank fire at well pad in Marshall County

From WTRF News 7, Wheeling, WV April 1, 2015

Moundsville, WV (AP) – An emergency official says no one was injured when a storage tank fire broke out at a drilling well pad in Marshall County.

Marshall County Emergency Management director Tom Hart says the fire was reported around 4:45 a.m. Wednesday at Gastar Exploration’s Armstrong pad near the Wetzel County line. (This is the Mason-Dixon Line, as extended to the Ohio River.)

Hart says four to five tanks were burning when firefighters arrived. The fire was extinguished in about an hour and the well pad wasn’t damaged.

Hart didn’t know what the tanks contained.

See also: www.FrackCheckWV.net

Chesapeake has been under the eye of Senator Joe Manchin and others;  but,  claims of over 700 local workers provides few clues about the number of local workers in the future.  Are qualified local workers hard to find, or does it depend upon what qualifications are required? 

Drilling rigs and fracking crews are still in demand, pipeline projects for gathering lines and transmission lines continue to be developed, and new gas separation/processing plants are under construction.  Of these, the gas processing plants offer the greatest long-term employment outlook, giving a working crew of perhaps 55  plant employees jobs for decades.  These processing plants can separate ethane, propane, butanes and natural gasoline from the “wet” gas of the local Marcellus wells.

 The Hastings plant of Dominion in Wetzel County has operated for decades, currently producing some 560,000 gallons per day of natural gas liquids.  Caiman Energy has just completed one of three plants at Ft. Beeler in Marshall County.  And, Dominion has just announced a new plant for the Natrium site north of New Martinsville on the Ohio River to process 300 million cubic feet of “wet” gas per day.  The surge in employment during the drilling and construction phases will likely moderate to a few hundred jobs in operations, and this is dependent upon the price of natural gas and the by-product natural gas liquids.