IOGAWV Executive Director Charlie Burd and his wife, Leone, were guests of US Methanol, Karel Komarek and the Czech-based Komarek Family Foundation, parent company of US Methanol. The night was highlighted with a welcome from Hynek Kmonicek, the Czech Republic Ambassador to the United States and a rousing performance by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. This ...

Prior to the start of the 2018 WV Chamber of Commerce Business Summit sessions Friday, IOGAWV representatives had a chance to converse with the state's legislative leadership.  Pictured from left are Jim Fealy, with the Law Offices of Philip A. Reale, newly elected West Virginia House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, West Virginia Senate President Mitch Carmichael ...

IOGAWV Executive Director Charlie Burd, along with other IOGAWV members, is speaking at the 2nd Annual Appalachian Basin GPA Midstream (ABGPA Midstream) Conference on Thursday, September 20th. Burd will be part of the O&G Associations Panel, Steve Hedrick of MATRIC is giving an update on the Appalachian Storage and Trading Hub, David Marks of Dominion ...

Please read these samples of the media coverage from the Summer Meeting. From the West Virginia News: The opening of the Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia’s summer meeting early Monday continued the organization’s push to promote what current President Marc Monteleone said are great opportunities in the natural gas and oil industry ...

I was at a birthday party for a relative a few weeks ago.  The family lives near Pittsburgh in the heart of Marcellus Shale country. A friend of the family, who also owns a company, start-up providing video verification services, was complaining that people have no idea where things come from.  He told of a ...

A key project consistently linked to West Virginia's China Energy deal is being pitched as the backbone of a petrochemical - and economic - revival in the Mountain State. West Virginia's congressional delegation is partnering with industry groups pushing for what could be an epicenter for the underground storage of natural gas liquids and chemical ...

Officials in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania are all vying for a piece of the petrochemical pie, served up hot and fresh from the region's boom in natural gas production. Although the three states compete with each other for investments like the Appalachian Storage and Trading Hub, an agreement between them aims to promote the ...

While economic development officials across the region hope to take advantage of abundant supplies of natural gas and hydrocarbon, our nation and world must also look to a future where we minimize their use. Climate change is the result of burning fossil fuels and is the opposite of the old BASF slogan, which claimed: “We ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Chairmen of the Legislature’s two Finance Committees said increasing severance taxes on natural gas would be the wrong way to properly fund the Public Employees Insurance Agency because that revenue stream is far too volatile to fund such a vital program. House Finance Committee Chairman Eric Nelson, R-Kanawha, and Senate Finance Committee ...

The Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia (IOGAWV) hosted its inaugural Science Teacher Education Workshop June 19 and 20, which was attended by more than 40 science teachers from across the state, as shown below. The goal of the workshop, held at the Embassy Suites, was to help foster STEM and energy education ...