Horizontal natural gas production in WV has grown significantly over the past several years. Focused on operators with at least 10 mmcfd there are interesting trends. Over both 60 and 30-month periods, Antero led in volume growth. However, Northeast Natural Energy and Tug Hill led these periods in percentage growth.

The U.S. oil and gas industry is flat on its back, with the fewest rigs in the field since consistent records were kept. The shale boom - an all-American oil and gas frenzy fueled with cheap money funding pricey horizontal drilling rigs that produced record supply - is now a bust, cut off at the knees as the world retreats into its living room to wait out the coronavirus pandemic.

By Gerson Freitas Jr. on 10/28/2020 (Bloomberg) --EQT Corp. agreed to buy Chevron Corp.'s Appalachian shale assets for $735 million as the biggest producer of U.S. natural gas takes advantage of an industry slump to expand. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year, EQT said in a statement on Tuesday.

A natural gas-fired power plant under construction in southeastern Ohio plans to also use hydrogen to lower its emissions profile and become one of the first electric generators in the country to burn the fuel.

Subscribe to our FREE newsletter today Rocky Shamblin knows the gas lines snaking up his hollow better than anyone. Fifty years ago, he laid them. Now he's retired and on disability after decades of manual labor on the gas fields left him with an injured back.