WV NATURAL GAS

The West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, chartered in 1915, is one of the oldest trade associations in the state, and is the only association that serves the entire oil and gas industry.WVONGA members operate in virtually every county in West Virginia. Our members employ thousands of people across the state, having payrolls totaling hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Our members have a cumulative investment of nearly $10 billion in West Virginia, own about 20,000 oil and gas wells, have more then 15,000 miles of pipeline crisscrossing the state and provide oil and natural gas to roughly 300,000 West Virginia homes and businesses... A key natural gas development in the state is the 6,000-foot-deep Marcellus Shale rock formation, believed to contain more than 50 trillion cubic-feet of recoverable natural gas. West Virginias underground natural gas storage capacity accounts for about 6 percent of the U.S. total. In addition to West Virginias natural gas production, state..