Author Archives: Kelly Grago

#FF Shale Daily

This week’s #FF is @ShaleDaily.Shale Daily is the premier one-stop news and information source covering shale energy in North America. As the name indicates, Shale Daily is a daily (Monday through Friday) online news service aimed at professionals concerned with … Read More

Job growth in the oil & gas industry

Even in a struggling economy, America’s oil and natural gas companies continue to provide well-paying jobs to millions of Americans. While overall employment dropped this year, the oil and gas industry saw big gains, adding 193,000 jobs in May, 193,000 … Read More

#FF Oil & Gas Financial Journal

This week’s #FF is @OGFJ.The Oil & Gas Financial Journal was initially launched in February 2004 as a quarterly supplement to Penn Well’s flagship publication, Oil & Gas Journal. Shortly thereafter, the magazine went monthly. And a decade later, the publication … Read More

Shale Drilling at the Pittsburgh International Airport

The rumors are true; CONSOL ENERGY Inc. and the Allegheny County Airport Authority have recently unveiled a proposed plan for drilling at the Pittsburgh International Airport property. The plan intends to have a total of 47 Marcellus wells, with the potential … Read More

Power to Save- Lackawanna College & Johnson College Partnership

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#FF: @EnergyDayFest

This week’s #FF is @EnergyDayFest: the family-friendly festival that seeks to keep school-aged children engaged in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education. The daylong event is presented by the Consumer Energy Alliance and the University of Houston. We caught up … Read More

Protecting The Land We Drill Upon

Cabot takes its environmental responsibility seriously and in doing so we try to meet and exceed the regulations by placing layers of protection on our operation sites. We do that for the drilling process as well as the completion process, to ensure … Read More

The History of Hydraulic Fracturing

Though certain documentaries would have you believe hydraulic fracturing is a fairly new phenomenon, it is definitely not. Hydraulic fracturing originated in the United States at the end of the Civil War, in 1865.  Back then, the process was crude … Read More

Wellbore Construction

A wellbore is drilled to aid in the exploration and recovery of natural resources. This wellbore allows hydraulic fracturing fluids to travel down the well while natural gas  flows back up the well. To ensure natural gas exploration is done in … Read More

Photo Friday: Fall Sporting Clay Benefiting St. Joseph’s Center

Over 200 people came out to the beautiful Hidden Hollow Sporting Clay’s last Friday to celebrate the second annual Fall Sporting Clay Shoot that benefited the inspiring St. Joseph’s Center.The day was a tremendous success and the total amount raised was an … Read More