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Sheriff: Subcontractors Are Disrespectful to Residents
April 12, 2012 FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Testifying before a U.S. more »»
Doctors Say Pa. Drilling Law Is Harmful to Health
April 12, 2012 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Public health advocates and doctors on the front lines of Pennsylvania’s natural gas-drilling boom are attacking the state’s new Marcellus Shale law, likening one of its provisions... more »» 
Company Wants To Get Drillers’ Attention
April 10, 2012 STEUBENVILLE — Opportunity knocked and Voto Manufacturers Sales Co. has answered. more »» 
Natural Gas Shale Exploration Raises Hope and Fear in Poland
April 10, 2012 SZYMKOWO, Poland (AP) — A slender shale gas rig rising from the midst of plowed fields and farm houses in Poland has inspired both hope for a local community’s prosperity and fears it will ruin... more »» 
Natural Gas Glut Puts Gloom in Boom
April 9, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams. So much natural gas is being produced that soon there may be nowhere left to put the country’s swelling surplus. more »»
Federal Study Ties Oil and Gas Industry to Earthquakes
April 9, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — Oil and gas production may explain a sharp increase in small earthquakes in the nation’s midsection, a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey suggest. more »» 
Driller Building Near The Highlands
April 8, 2012 VALLEY GROVE — Yensen Landscape Supply is moving to The Highlands after Chesapeake Energy acquired a tract of land near Interstate 70 where Yensen is currently located to build a natural gas... more »»
Professors Discuss Well Results
April 8, 2012 JEWETT — The 1. more »»
Hooker Hunt In Wetzel County
April 7, 2012 NEW MARTINSVILLE — While increasing truck traffic, crumbling roads and environmental concerns are more commonly heard complaints associated with natural gas drilling, authorities are searching for... more »»
Other Issues Keep Police On the Alert
April 7, 2012 In addition to claims of prostitution, local law enforcement agencies also have had their hands full with other issues related to the burgeoning oil and gas industry. more »» 
Triadelphia Says No Campground
April 5, 2012 TRIADELPHIA — Brenda Kosem is disappointed she won’t get to use her 4-acre lot to house gas drilling workers in Triadelphia. more »»
Lawsuit Filed For Methane In Water
April 4, 2012 CAMERON — Jeremiah Magers believes Chesapeake Energy’s fracking led to the methane contamination of his drinking water well, so he is suing the driller for failing to provide an alternative water... more »» 
Harrison County Drilling Site Shows Big Numbers
April 3, 2012 JEWETT — A Chesapeake Energy Utica Shale well in Harrison County yielded 1. more »»
Ohio Maps Shale Yields
April 2, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio geologists’ latest effort to map the best areas for Utica shale oil and gas production shows potential for an oil reservoir in central Ohio but now excludes areas near... more »» 
Who Checks the Pipes? Little Oversight On Natural Gas Pipelines
April 1, 2012 WHEELING — Hundreds or even thousands of miles of pipelines and gathering lines are needed to transport natural gas from Ohio and West Virginia drilling sites to processing plants. more »» 
BP Enters Shale Game
April 1, 2012 WARREN, Ohio — Global oil giant BP has entered the Utica Shale play, which means that five of the world’s seven largest publicly traded energy companies soon will be drilling in the local region. more »»
Engineering Firm to Open Office in City
March 31, 2012 Houston-based Audubon Engineering is opening a field office in a 3,000-square-foot building in Steubenville, potentially creating up to 20 job. more »» 
Fracking In N.Y. To Use Propane
March 30, 2012 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York landowners group may partner with a Canadian company that uses liquid propane instead of water-based hydraulic fracturing to get natural gas flowing into wells. more »» 
Local Workers Want Jobs
March 29, 2012 About 100 local construction workers are making their best effort to land jobs with Chicago Bridge and Iron to help build the $500 million Dominion Resources natural gas processing plant at Natrium. more »»
Pipeline Developer Makes $100 Million Deal
March 26, 2012 SISTERSVILLE — Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. more »» |
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