If Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia Were a Country…

“If Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania were a country, they would be the world’s third-largest natural gas producer, behind only the U.S. and Russia.” That’s according to an editorial by Jerry James, president of Marietta-based Artex Oil. This strength in natural gas production gives manufacturers in these states “a competitive edge not seen in decades,” James writes.

As we recently noted, total investment in Ohio’s resource rich shale energy sector has reached $78 billion since tracking began in 2011, according to a recent Cleveland State University study. 12/2/2019