Blue Racer expands its midstream infrastructure
By Tom McParland YOUNGSTOWN Midstream infrastructure continues to develop in the wet-natural-gas window of the Utica Shale, which has seen the bulk of the activity of Ohio’s drilling boom. Blue Racer...
View ArticleWelders Make $150,000? Bring Back Shop Class
By Josh Mandel In American high schools, it is becoming increasingly hard to defend the vanishing of shop class from the curriculum. The trend began in the 1970s, when it became conventional wisdom...
View ArticleUnion City gas plant looks to future
By Jim Martin UNION CITY — Unseen pipelines, buried beneath the ground in western Pennsylvania and New York, carry natural gas from about 6,500 wells. Those wells, many in service since the 1980s,...
View ArticleDrones give energy companies high hopes for safer work
HOUSTON — In the Alaskan tundra, inspecting a pipeline isn’t easy. Most pipelines don’t follow what few roads are there, so trucks often aren’t an option. And using low-flying airplanes can be unsafe...
View ArticleMultiple deals inked to move Marcellus gas to Gulf Coast, Canada
By Stephanie Ritenbaugh / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Midstream company Energy Transfer Partners said Thursday it is planning a new pipeline to connect Marcellus and Utica shale production to Canada and...
View ArticleDemand for pipelines bolsters master limited partnerships
By Stephanie Ritenbaugh / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Two companies with Marcellus Shale assets, Consol Energy and Noble Energy, announced plans earlier this month to form a master limited partnership to...
View ArticleRail terminal could bring more Canadian oil to Gulf
HOUSTON – The oil industry isn’t waiting on the Keystone Pipeline to build a link between Canadian heavy crude fields and the Gulf Coast. A new crude-by-rail project could increase by more than half...
View ArticleHiring in shale industry shifts to engineering, construction workers
By David Conti Gas companies operating in and around the Marcellus shale say they are increasingly hiring skilled workers for engineering and construction jobs as the industry matures beyond the rush...
View ArticleAtlantic Sunrise pipeline to take Marcellus gas southeast
By Stephanie Ritenbaugh A proposed 178-mile pipeline in northeastern Pennsylvania that aims to connect Marcellus Shale production to the Mid-Atlantic and southeast is advancing. The Federal Energy...
View ArticleWest Virginia company finds paths for Marcellus pipeline projects
By Madasyn Czebiniak No mountain, valley or stream has ever stumped Energy Surveys, said the Clarksburg, W.Va.-based company that routes pipelines carrying oil and gas. Roads, on the other hand, can be...
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