Members and staff of PIOGA have spent the past six years fighting Gov. Tom Wolf and certain members of the state legislature in their desire to impose a severance tax on unconventional natural gas production in the Commonwealth.

Since the Marcellus Shale play started 10-plus years ago, we have been using the terms unconventional and conventional incorrectly. And “we” includes the state, the public, the press and much of our own industry.

These new and proposed regulatory changes are likely to significantly affect project design and construction in Pennsylvania.

PIOGA commemorates Earth Day 2021 by recognizing the contributions being made to improving our nation's air quality through the increased use of Pennsylvania-produced natural gas.

Oil and natural gas pipelines have been utilized for more than a century and a half to transport those commodities, from the first 2,000-foot oil pipeline built in northwest Pennsylvania in 1865 soon after Col. Edwin Drake’s well, to today’s interconnected network of lines that span multiple states and thousands of miles.

The Delaware River Basin Commission has voted to ban high-volume hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the four-state Delaware River watershed. The action itself comes as no real surprise, only that it took so long to finalize.

The debate over the issue of “100 percent” renewable energy is the subject of considerable debate today, and will continue to be well into the future