95% of All West Virginia Oil & Gas Comes from Fracked Wells

Charlie Burd, executive director of the Gas & Oil Association of West Virginia, gave an update on the state's oil and gas industry to the members of the West Virginia Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Energy on Tuesday. Burd (a Democrat) sang the praises of hydraulic fracturing. In 2020, more than 95% of the 2.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas produced in West Virginia came from horizontal drilling, according to Burd. We discovered some interesting statistics from Burd on the state's oil and gas industry...

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