Guest Post: American Energy Production Creates Huge Benefits for Pennsylvanians

The following is a guest post by The Institute for Energy Research, originally published on May 10, 2021: The lives and fortunes of many in rural Pennsylvania have been changed for the better forever by the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing that has fundamentally transformed areas in economic…

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Energy & Oilfield Career Summer Experience Broadens Horizons for Local Students

Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation and many of our industry partners in the Marcellus shale were excited to work with the Northern Tier Industry & Education Consortium (NTIEC) to bring back the Energy & Oilfield Career Summer Experience. The five-day program had to be canceled in 2020 due to the…

Energy Rally Boosts Spirits as We Continue Our Economic Recovery

Early in August, we had the honor of hosting a visit to northeast Pennsylvania by Mike Sommers, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute (API). As we guided him to many sites and gas-related events, Mike shared his vision for the future of the petroleum and natural gas industries….

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The Marcellus Attracts a Permanent Resident Via Cactus Wellhead

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….

Marcellus Shale Impact Fee goes back into local communities

  Governor Tom Corbett announced today that the Commonwealth Financing Authority approved more than $16 million in funding to support 116 trails and recreation projects throughout Pennsylvania. These projects are located in Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Berks, Bucks, Butler, Cambria, Carbon, Chester, Clarion, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Elk, Erie, Fayette, Greene, Huntingdon, Indiana, Lackawanna,…