$2M natural gas truck facility planned for Clendenin Andrew Brown , Staff Writer MarkWest, a natural gas company with operations in several states, is planning to build a trucking facility for natural gas liquids near Clendenin. The company filed for a building permit for the proposed project with Kanawha County late last week. According to ...

Daily Mail editorial: Could methanol plant be start of new growth? August 18, 2016 With chemical manufacturing plants lined along the Kanawha River from Belle to Institute, the area used to be known as the Chemical Valley. Few people use that term anymore. Many of the plants and most of the jobs the chemical industry ...

From WVUToday MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Researchers at West Virginia University studied drilling wastes produced at two research wells near Morgantown and found they are well below federal guidelines for radioactive or hazardous waste. Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the West Virginia Water Research Institute at WVU, will present these and other findings from the Marcellus Shale Energy and Environmental Laboratory, or ...

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. http://www. wsj .ccm/articles/judge-strikes-down-obama-rule-on-fracki ng-on-public-lands-1466600116   U.S. Judge Strikes Down Obama Rule on Fracking on Public Lands Interior Department lacked the authority to issue stricter regulation, federal judge in Wyoming finds By AMY HARDER Updated June 22, 2016 6:35 p.m. ET A federal judge in Wyoming has blocked an Interior Department rule ...

Production of crude oil and natural gas has more than offset the drop in coal use over the last six years, the federal government said Monday. Energy production has soared over the last half-decade, with shale oil leading the nation to record energy development, according the Energy Department's independent research arm. The Energy Information Administration ...

A recent USA Today/Rock the Vote survey of millennials shows 80 percent of millennials support transitioning to “mostly clean” or renewable energy by 2030. Although their hearts may be in the right place, few millennials appear to realize how much energy their lifestyles actually consume, where this energy comes from and how much it would ...

Posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 7:57 pm By Sarah Plummer REGISTER-HERALD REPORTER A federal judge has granted an emergency injunction to prevent Fayette County from enforcing a countywide ban on the storage and disposal of oil and gas waste. Judge John Copenhaver Jr. granted the injunction Tuesday to put a hold on the ban until ...

ByRobert Hennelly MoneyWatch December 18, 2015, 6:00 AM Look no further than Ohio, that essential swing state in presidential elections. Gasoline is now $1.57 a gallon at the GetGo in Madison, Ohio, well below the $2 per gallon national average. Back in January 2014 the average price in Ohio was $3.29 a gallon. That's a ...

CHARLESTON, WV (AP) - West Virginia has brought in $18 million by leasing the right to drill for oil and natural gas deep below state wildlife management areas and waterways, including beneath the Ohio River. But as natural gas prices stay low, no companies with the state leases have begun extracting gas, as far as ...

By Sarah Tincher, Energy Reporter EQT Corp. has forecasted its 2016 capital expenditure (CAPEX) to reach $1 billion, including $820 million for well development, according to a Dec. 7 announcement. EQT, a major natural gas producer for the Appalachian Basin, plans to drill 72 Marcellus wells with an average lateral length of 7,000 feet in ...