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	<title>Marcellus Drilling News &#187; West Virginia</title>
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		<title>Waiting Game: Cracker Plants Talk to Property Owners</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/02/waiting-game-cracker-plants-talk-to-property-owners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Companies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio are all in the hunt to land an ethane cracker plant in their respective states (see the long list of MDN stories on a potential cracker plant in the Marcellus/Utica Shale region). According to WV Commerce Secretary Keith Burdette, Shell and another unnamed company are now in talks with private [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MarkWest to Expand/Build NGL Plants on New Agreements</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/02/markwest-to-expandbuild-ngl-plants-on-new-agreements/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/02/markwest-to-expandbuild-ngl-plants-on-new-agreements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CONSOL Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MarkWest Energy Partners, a major midstream player in the Marcellus and Utica Shales, just announced major expansion plans that will add an additional 600 million cubic feet per day (mmcf/d) of natural gas processing capacity which includes natural gas liquids (NGLs). Most of the new capacity will come from expansion of its Majorsville, WV plant. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just What are Natural Gas Liquids Anyway?</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/just-what-are-natural-gas-liquids-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/just-what-are-natural-gas-liquids-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marcellusdrilling.com/?p=5887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly, you will read on MDN and in press accounts about natural gas liquids (NGLs), and how major energy companies are now focused on drilling in the “liquids-rich” portion of the Marcellus and Utica Shales. The geography of where NGLs are found is typically western Pennsylvania, the West Virginia panhandle and eastern Ohio. But, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magnum Hunter Completes Four Marcellus Wells in WV Q411</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/magnum-hunter-completes-four-marcellus-wells-in-wv-q411/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/magnum-hunter-completes-four-marcellus-wells-in-wv-q411/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Companies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marcellusdrilling.com/?p=5889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Magnum Hunter, a Houston, TX-based independent exploration and production company, issued an operational update for Q4 2011 yesterday. Following is the section reporting on their drilling operations in the Appalachian/Marcellus region: During the fourth quarter of 2011, the Appalachian Basin Division completed most notably four successful 100% working interest horizontal operated wells located in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caiman Energy Investing $1.3B in Midstream Facilities in WV</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/caiman-energy-investing-1-3b-in-midstream-facilities-in-wv/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/caiman-energy-investing-1-3b-in-midstream-facilities-in-wv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Caiman Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caiman Energy plans to bring its total investment in natural gas processing (“midstream”) facilities in Marshall County, WV to $1.3 billion by the end of 2014. At midstream processing plants like the ones operated by Caiman, raw natural gas is processed to separate out methane from other components like ethane, propane, butane and pentane, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another New Entrant in the Ethane Cracker Plant Sweepstakes</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/another-new-entrant-in-the-ethane-cracker-plant-sweepstakes/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/another-new-entrant-in-the-ethane-cracker-plant-sweepstakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Impact]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marcellusdrilling.com/?p=5475</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new entrant has entered the ethane cracker plant sweepstakes, this one claiming they can build a cracker plant for one-third of the cost of others. Earlier this week, Keith Pauley, president and chief executive officer of the Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research &#38; Innovation Center (MATRIC) said that MATRIC has launched a subsidiary company, Aither Chemicals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baker Hughes Expands in WV, Sets Sights on the Marcellus</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/baker-hughes-expands-in-wv-sets-sights-on-the-marcellus/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/baker-hughes-expands-in-wv-sets-sights-on-the-marcellus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baker Hughes, one of the world’s largest oilfield and shale gas service companies, is building a new $40 million facility in Harrison County, West Virginia, and along with it, generating 275 new jobs. According to Baker Hughes president Paul Butero, the company plans to become a “major player” in the Marcellus Shale. Baker Hughes, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WV Legislator Offers Forced Pooling for Higher Severance Tax</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/wv-legislator-offers-forced-pooling-for-higher-severance-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/wv-legislator-offers-forced-pooling-for-higher-severance-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forced Pooling]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marcellusdrilling.com/?p=5348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In December of 2011, West Virginia passed new Marcellus Shale drilling laws raising certain fees and putting new requirements in place (see this MDN story). The drilling industry, while saying it was not a perfect law, in the end supported it. But there was on thing the new law did not address that the industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WV County to Invest $50K in NG Vehicle Conversion Center</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/wv-county-to-invest-50k-in-ng-vehicle-conversion-center/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/wv-county-to-invest-50k-in-ng-vehicle-conversion-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industrywide Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marcellusdrilling.com/?p=5307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kanawha County, WV wants to become a leading location to convert vehicles to run on natural gas, and County Commission President Kent Carper plans to use $50,000 of county money to make it happen. Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper wants to make a $50,000 &#34;down payment&#34; on a plan to turn the county into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Offers Shell Cracker Plant $1.4B in Tax Incentives</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/ohio-offers-shell-cracker-plant-1-4b-in-tax-incentives/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/ohio-offers-shell-cracker-plant-1-4b-in-tax-incentives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Impact]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marcellusdrilling.com/?p=5292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Competition to attract an ethane cracker plant is heating up. West Virginia has made no bones that they intend to be the winners of the investment that will be made to build an ethane cracker plant to be built by Shell. The plant will cost upward of $2 billion and will create thousands of jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WV Road Improvements Paid for by Shale Gas Drillers</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/wv-road-improvements-paid-for-by-shale-gas-drillers/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/wv-road-improvements-paid-for-by-shale-gas-drillers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industrywide Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marcellusdrilling.com/?p=5290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania’s rural roads are seeing upgrades because of gas drilling activity. When drilling comes to a municipality or county, and with it an increase in truck traffic, drillers step up to the plate and repair the roads that they use. Most of the time roads are left in better shape than before drilling began. West [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morgantown Marcellus Wells Coming Online</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/12/morgantown-marcellus-wells-coming-online/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/12/morgantown-marcellus-wells-coming-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marcellusdrilling.com/?p=5181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MDN chronicled the battle earlier this year between Northeast Natural Energy and the city of Morgantown, WV over Northeast’s plan to drill two Marcellus Shale gas wells near the city. In short, the Morgantown City Council tried to ban drilling both inside and outside city limits—up to one mile outside—which would have prevented Northeast from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WV Officials Say Rail Access Key in Attracting Cracker Plant</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/12/wv-officials-say-rail-access-key-in-attracting-cracker-plant/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/12/wv-officials-say-rail-access-key-in-attracting-cracker-plant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marcellusdrilling.com/?p=5177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to West Virginia officials, one of the keys to attracting an ethane cracker plant to the state is the humble railroad. In locations where there is only a single railroad line, costs are higher, so officials are discussing ways of introducing more rail competition at potential locations in the state should one of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawsuit on the Horizon for WV&#8217;s New Marcellus Law?</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/12/lawsuit-on-the-horizon-for-wvs-new-marcellus-law/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/12/lawsuit-on-the-horizon-for-wvs-new-marcellus-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marcellusdrilling.com/?p=5157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Please see an important update at the end of this article. West Virginia’s new Marcellus drilling law is not yet a week old (see this MDN story for a summary of what’s in the new law), and already some who are unhappy with the law are talking lawsuit. The Charleston, WV Rotary Club hosted a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gastar Marcellus Wells: Strong Production, Lots of Liquids</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/12/gastar-marcellus-wells-strong-production-lots-of-liquids/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/12/gastar-marcellus-wells-strong-production-lots-of-liquids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Butler County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gastar Exploration gives the following operational update on their drilling activities in the Marcellus Shale in Marshall and Preston counties in West Virginia, and Butler County in Pennsylvania. Most of Gastar’s Marcellus activity is concentrated in Marshall County, WV, where they plan to complete 24 horizontal wells by the end of 2012. From the Gastar [...]]]></description>
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