Whether diversifying their traditional coal portfolio with natural gas drilling, implementing the Absolute ZERO onsite safety initiative or maintaining high levels of productivity while doing their due diligence to protect the environment, CONSOL Energy is leading the region’s energy industry by example.
We are in the midst of the largest energy boom in our nation’s history, and most people still don’t realize it. It’s extraordinary that the ingenuity and innovation of the natural gas and oil industry have unlocked more than 100 years of U.S. shale gas reserves in just the last five years.
Natural gas fracing has been around since the 1940s and has a long history in the Mountain State. Through the major advances made in the past decade, this process has been combined with horizontal drilling techniques to increase productivity and decrease impact on the landscape.
Growing up, many of us were engrained with the belief that honesty is the best policy. Since we at West Virginia Executive believe this is a vital principle by which to live and work, we have decided to step outside our typical editorial requirements and run a story without bylines in order to bring our readers the real facts that lie within West Virginia’s natural gas industry from the CEOs and presidents themselves.
Coal plays a significant role both in our state and across the country, and despite the challenges we face here at home, West Virginia has the potential to be a global energy leader—if we choose to be.