WHEELING - Lawmakers may resurrect the debate over forced pooling in West Virginia during the upcoming legislative session, according to incoming House of Delegates Speaker Tim Armstead. Armstead, R-Kanawha, who is expected to be elected speaker when the new Republican-controlled Legislature convenes Jan. 14 in Charleston, confirmed there have been discussions among the GOP leadership ...

A process that has been in the making since the Legislature's passing of the "tank bill" is beginning to come to a close, right before the anniversary of the chemical spill that affected 300,000 Kanawha Valley residents. A legislative rule required by Senate Bill 373, also known as the aboveground storage tank bill, for the West ...

In an effort to support northern West Virginia's expanding Marcellus Shale gas industry, FirstEnergy Corp. announced Dec. 22 that it is working on about $100 million in new transmission projects, in addition to evaluating system upgrades on existing equipment. The new facilities include high-voltage substations and transmission lines to accommodate expanding natural gas processing facilities ...

Amid much controversy, two horizontal gas wells were drilled into the Marcellus shale rock formation in 2011 just barely outside of Morgantown. Now two more wells are slated to be drilled on the same pad in the summer of 2015, but the company, Charleston-based Northeast Natural Energy is teaming up this time with a host ...

Executive Director, Charlie Burd, represented the Independent Oil & Gas Association of West Virginia Friday, December 12 at Wood County 8th Grade Career Day. Students from Hamilton Middle School and Williamstown High School stopped in at the IOGAWV booth to learn more about the Oil and Gas Industry and it's related job opportunities.  Hamilton Middle ...

As the Appalachian Region feels the impact of the burgeoning shale-energy industry, a consortium of researchers and industrial partners led by West Virginia University, with the assistance of The Ohio State University, will conduct the first-ever long-term, comprehensive field study of a natural resource that has changed the country’s – and the world’s – energy ...

By DREW PARKER - Staff Writer , The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register Local educators are working to prepare students for the continuing oil and gas boom. As part of that education, Mike Koon, vice president of workforce development at West Virginia Northern Community College, explained three new programs related to the industry at Tuesday's Wheeling ...