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ODNR issues permit for a Utica Shale well
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has issued a new permit for a Utica Shale well to Chesapeake Exploration LLC, a subsidiary of Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp.
BP meets, greets Valley; targets ’13 drilling
The roulette wheel has started to spin, but it’ll be nine months before the ball will drop, telling BP America and its 1,900 mineral-rights partners in Trumbull County whether they have landed on a winner.
Gas industry spurs new product sales for Pa. uniform store
For more than 20 years, Rogers Uniforms stocked maroon and sky blue scrubs for health care workers, hats and aprons for restaurants employees and even items for law enforcement officials.For more than 20 years, Rogers Uniforms stocked maroon and sky blue scrubs for health care workers, hats and aprons for restaurants employees and even items for law enforcement officials.
Gas and oil industry yields 115 new businesses in county
The Williamsport Chamber of Commerce president said he never has seen an economic boom such as the one creating lines at local restaurants, no vacancies at area hotels and a general optimism among many capitalizing on the area’s expanding gas and oil industry.
From Doom To Boom
Al Penska is a resident of Greene County, Pa., and is among many who worry how the land will be left when this latest gas surge is complete in a generation or so.
In Texas, gas wells everywhere
A gas-drilling rig operates on the banks of the Trinity River just east of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. The rig is working for Chesapeake Energy to extract natural gas from the Barnett Shale.
Oil, gas industry boosted Fort Worth economy before moving on
Cars were rolling off of the lot almost as quickly as they were rolling on back in 2007-2008, recalls Troy Young of Mike Carlson Motor Co. in Fort Worth, Texas.
Public backlash leads to limits, moratoriums
Gary Hogan heard the trucks before he saw them. Standing in his backyard, he phoned his Fort Worth councilman, the late Chuck Silcox.
Company finds niche in fracking materials, equipment
To Pam Percival, the gas-and-oil-well industry is far more than men out in a field with some machinery and a teeter-totter piece of metal that pivots up and down.
Industry creates demand for supplies
There’s a good chance that the small flag or windsock flapping in the breeze near a gas or oil well was imprinted and sold by a company based in Fort Worth, Texas.
Hissing well gives residents in Arlington a wake-up call
Last April, residents of an Arlington neighborhood awoke to hissing sounds from a nearby gas well.
Natural gas drives TCU efforts
Unbelievably, the most-unique aspect of Ken Morgan’s Honda Civic is not the large, purple horned frog draped across the vehicle’s bright white exterior.
Texas wind energizes gleanPower owner
By NICOLE STEMPAK The NewsOutlet.org KRUM, Texas In a farming neighborhood with dirt roads,
DRILLING IN SHALE REGIONS || How Safe Is The Air?
Calvin Tillman stands in front of the town hall in Dish, Texas, a town of 200 where he was mayor and where more than 30 gas and oil wells have been drilled. He now travels the world advocating oil and gas accountability, and was in Canton last fall.
Texas energy exhibition generates enthusiasm
Jeannie Looney stood in line on a recent Thursday to take her three grandchildren to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.
Oil, gas industry groups seek to join lawsuit
A coalition of oil and gas industry companies is challenging a group of municipalities who are suing the state of Pennsylvania over a new law that aims to regulate gas drilling.
For Texas family, a fracking mess
Ranjana Bhandari, left, and Kaushik De have lived off Division Street in Arlington, Texas, for 19 years. It was a nice place, they said. Now they fear for their family’s health because of the numerous gas wells.
Permit for Columbiana Co. well
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has issued a new permit for a Utica Shale well to Chesapeake Exploration LLC, a subsidiary of Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp.
Tale of 2 families illustrates the pros and cons of drilling
When Raymond and Kay Polone moved to Decatur 20 years ago, they never thought so many wells would move in, too.
Prosperous property
Omas Lewayne Peterson, 69, at his pyramid-shaped home in Justin, Texas. He has 300 gas wells on his property and has become an expert on all things oil and gas. The gas on his land has made him a millionaire.