The other day while passing through Towanda, Pa, I stopped at the Dandy Mini Mart on Rt. 6. This fueling station has everything you’d expect from a Dandy Mini Mart – gasoline, diesel, soft drinks and ready-made food – and, … Read More
Author Archives: Bill desRosiers
Old Glory Clay Shoot
Last fall Cabot hosted a sporting clay tournament to benefit the Scranton School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The tournament was so much fun that Cabot followed up with another in March to raise money for True Friends … Read More
Sheepy Hollow Stock Dog Trial
Post Contributed by: Bill desRosiers – Coordinator of External Affairs North of Tunkhannock, tucked between the rolling hills of Susquehanna County is the small town of Hop Bottom, PA. It’s the kind of one “stop-sign town” that normally doesn’t draw … Read More
Wayne Lackawanna Forest Landowners
Cabot recently hosted the Wayne Lackawanna Forest Landowners Association, an environmentally concerned group of landowners in Northeast Pennsylvania. Following the site tour, which also included a visit to Cabot’s CNG fueling station, two members of the group, Mike Uretsky and … Read More
#FF: @SSDHHC
[vc_row animation=””][vc_column width=”1/2″]For today’s #FF, we are focusing on The Scranton School for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Children, an institution which more than deserves Friday’s spotlight. Jon Konzelman, the Assistant to the Principal and the face behind @SSDHHC, describes … Read More
What is flaring and why does Cabot do it?
[vc_row animation=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Before we address flaring, let’s describe the process which leads us to flaring in the first place.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row animation=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]After a well is drilled and the rig moves off-site, the well is ready to be completed. Cabot will move … Read More
Reactions from the Real Promised Land
With the recent release of the new Matt Damon movie, Promised Land, conversations have again turned towards the natural gas industry and to residents leasing their mineral rights to gas companies. The movie paints a picture of a small town … Read More
Meet the Cabot Crew: Andrew Dickson
[vc_row animation=””][vc_column width=”1/2″]As I sit here at the beginning of my second week, I consider myself blessed to be surrounded by such a professional atmosphere at this stage in my collegiate career. My name is Andrew Dickson and in several … Read More
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It is simply impossible to overlook the thousands of jobs which have already been created thanks to the Shale boom. Two-thirds of Pennsylvania has an underground layer of Marcellus Shale and the play extends into portions of New York, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Ohio as well.
With current projections indicating an increase of drilling statewide, the bottom line is there is a lot of work to be done and plenty of opportunity for employment.
The current figures estimate a minimum of nearly 19,000 jobs by the year 2014, with a maximum figure of over 30,000. These figures are jobs which are directly related to the extraction of natural gas from Marcellus Shale – and this does not just mean jobs in the field. To bring a single Marcellus well on line requires 420 individuals across 150 different occupations. What this means is that regardless one’s education level of expertise, there’s going to be a place to work.
You might wonder what happens when the wells have been drilled and completed – what happens to employment? According to estimates by university scientists, exploration companies, production companies and the Marcellus Shale Coalition, wells will be producing gas for thirty plus years. Environmental and health standards must be monitored throughout the following decades; this requires a dedicated staff. There is a need to monitor the wells to make sure production is at maximum capability. There is no way to extract natural gas without thousands being placed into long-term employment.
Below is a graph tracing the increase of wells into the year 2014:
PA Marcellus Shale Workforce Needs Assessment
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Our Point of View on Pogue
[vc_row animation=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Post contributed by Bill desRosiers – Coordinator, External Affairs[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row animation=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Far too often, hydraulic fracturing is portrayed negatively in the media because the science behind it is too complicated to explain in a few, short sentences. However, this hasn’t stopped … Read More