Shale 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 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 ArticleOil Consequences of Lifting Iran’s Sanctions
The past year has seen a large (estimated between 50-60%) reduction in the drilling of new shale rigs largely because of the low price of oil. This has meant a steep reduction in new projects as well...
View ArticleAre Lower Gas Prices Here to Stay?
As the price of oil continues to decline into the fourth quarter of 2015, people are starting to wonder exactly how low it can go? The global market is bracing itself for the millions of barrels of oil...
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