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Class Action Certified Against Evolution Well for Commuter Wages
Evolution Well Services, headquartered in Houston with a regional office in Pittsburgh, specializes in “electric” fracking–using natural gas from the well pad (instead of diesel fuel) to power turbines to create electricity that drives fracking pumps. In September 2020, three former Evolution employees who worked at remote sites in the Marcellus/Utica for the company, filed a lawsuit against the company claiming Evolution failed to pay them for their commute to and from job sites. This past Tuesday a federal judge in Pennsylvania granted conditional certification for the lawsuit to become a class action.
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Evolution Well Services, headquartered in Houston with a regional office in Pittsburgh, specializes in “electric” fracking–using natural gas from the well pad (instead of diesel fuel) to power turbines to create electricity that drives fracking pumps. The company reports hitting a major milestone: Completing over 30,000 frac stages, the most electric frac stages completed to date in the industry. The stages were completed for numerous clients across the Marcellus/Utica, Permian, Scoop, Stack, and Eagle Ford shale basins.
Evolution Well Services, headquartered in Houston with a regional office in Pittsburgh, specializes in “electric” fracking–using natural gas from the well pad (instead of diesel fuel) to power turbines to create electricity that drives fracking pumps. Evolution fracks for at least one Marcellus/Utica E&P (see 
We’re always delighted when we spot a story or reference about a new company operating in the Marcellus/Utica that had heretofore escaped our finely-turned radar. Here’s one of those stories. In 2014, five people with experience in the oil and gas industry came together to form Evolution Energy Services. Based in Cadiz, OH, the company provides a range of services and products for the o&g industry–everything from porta potties to fracking chemicals to rig workers. We’ll call them an oilfield services company (OFS). We hadn’t heard of this upstart company until we spotted a brief reference that Evolution has just secured a $2 million load that will allow them to expand…