When GasSearch Drilling Services (GDS) foreman Gino Setta read a call for help on the Griffin Pond Animal Shelter Facebook page, he knew he wanted to help ease the overwhelmed staff. As people go back to work, the shelter has experienced an influx of dogs at their facility in Lackawanna…
More than a hundred elected officials and leaders in the natural gas industry gathered in Tunkhannock on August 5 for the grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony at the new Lackawanna College School of Petroleum & Natural Gas (LC PNG). The much-anticipated event at the new center coincided with a…
Texan native David Ferguson has been in Northeast Pennsylvania since the early days of the Marcellus Shale exploration and drilling. Not only has he successfully moved from the company that brought him here to Cactus Wellhead, he found the love of his life here, got married and has two sons….
Drilling into the Marcellus Shale has become one of the biggest economic and environmental events in the 21st century. The U.S uses about 20 trillion cubic feet of natural gas each year, and 100 to 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas is yet to be explored. Cabot is doing…
To frac or not to frac; that is the question, and in a recent study by the Robert Morris University Polling Institute, the often controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing appears to be gaining acceptance. The new RMU survey polled 1,003 adults and it revealed that 56 percent of the people…
As I’m learning about natural gas, I’ve come to the understanding that it has the ability to power many different things. In fact, natural gas serves as an industrial energy source in manufacturing products ranging from steel, and paper to glass and clothing. Not to mention, it is the raw material…